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Akira ransomware gang used an unsecured webcam to bypass EDR

Security Affairs

They found unsecured IoT devices, including webcams and a fingerprint scanner, using them to bypass security defenses and successfully deploy the ransomware. The IoT device was running a lightweight Linux OS, that was the perfect target for Akiras Linux ransomware variant. ” concludes the report.

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Why Businesses Can’t Afford Anything Less Than Zero Trust in IoT

Security Boulevard

Why Businesses Can’t Afford Anything Less Than Zero Trust in IoT. The IoT Landscape and Threats. Considering the inherent insecurity of connected devices, the threats facing organizations today often involve weakly-defended IoT equipment as the first line of attack. brooke.crothers. Thu, 06/23/2022 - 16:26.

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Recent Tesla Hacks Highlight Importance of Protecting Connected Devices

eSecurity Planet

Within the last couple of months, smart device vulnerabilities have been piling up, prompting businesses to protect their Internet of Things (IoT) environments. While Teslas aren’t the typical business IoT device, their connection to the internet makes them a cyber threat as much as your business’s other IoT technology.

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Cloudflare One SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Customers on this tier will receive Logpush to security incident and event management (SIEM) tools or cloud storage and certificate-based mTLS Authentication for internet of things (IoT) devices. Cloudflare also stands out with ZTNA by default, IoT Isolation, and automated traffic controls and anti-DDoS capabilities.

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The XDR Solution to the Ransomware Problem

Cisco Security

Endpoint security should constantly monitor all endpoint activity, so it will see ransomware as it unfolds—it can then rapidly terminate the offending processes, preventing endpoint encryption, and stopping the ransomware attack in its tracks. Sign up for free trials of the Cisco Secure XDR solution. Cisco Secure Endpoint.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2025

SecureList

In November, Google published information on two vulnerabilities that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”: CVE-2024-43093 and CVE-2024-43047. In some cases, hacktivist attacks may reveal a lack of funding for the security of the structures they attack. The main problem is the absence of countermeasures.

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VulnRecap 1/16/24 – Major Firewall Issues Persist

eSecurity Planet

The fix: Look at Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update from last June to find patch information for the SharePoint vulnerability. The danger of compromised IoT devices is that threat actors could move laterally from a compromised thermostat onto a business’s computer systems if the thermostat resides in the same office as the network.

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