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GUEST ESSAY: How stealth, persistence allowed Wipro attacker to plunder supply chain

The Last Watchdog

Wipro issued a media statement , via its Economic Times division, acknowledging “potentially abnormal activity in a few employee accounts on our network due to an advanced phishing campaign. One such go-to APT technique is to remotely leverage legit administrative tools to carry out malicious activities — under cover.

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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

Media sources reported that explosives had been concealed within the devices. It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? Why does it matter? However, targeted attacks remain a viable possibility.

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Critical vulnerabilities in Philips Vue PACS devices could allow remote takeover

SC Magazine

Philips released software updates to address some of the flaws, but multiple vulnerabilities require system administrators to apply workarounds in the interim as the patches are currently in development and won’t be released for some time. SC Media’s recent report sheds light on the ongoing health care issue in the U.S.,

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Kaseya Breach Underscores Vulnerability of IT Management Tools

eSecurity Planet

Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack. When administrators noticed suspicious behavior on Friday, Kaseya shut down VSA. VSA server breached. Backup data regularly.

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Raising a Cyber-Savvy Village: Remote Learning Security in the Age of COVID-19

Herjavec Group

Ask your school system administrators to provide you their written cybersecurity policies and procedures concerning proposed remote learning capabilities. Ask your school system administrators to provide a copy of their incident response policies and plans. So, what to do?

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Ransomware Backup Strategy: Secure Your Backups

Spinone

Antivirus software and firewalls are just the first line of defense, which is far from being 100% effective against ransomware. The name 3-2-1 stands for having 3 separate copies of your data stored on 2 different kinds of media, with at least 1 copy stored off-site. But there is a problem. Ransomware can infect backups.

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ToddyCat: Keep calm and check logs

SecureList

The other two variants should be loaded with the legitimate VLC.exe media player, which is abused to sideload the malicious library. When dealing with external devices and other non-primary storage media, the script opts for a more expedient strategy by selecting the root directory ().