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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

“The trend that we’re seeing is that more than 30 percent of the content flowing into data lakes is from untrusted sources,” he says. “It’s It’s documents, PDFs, CSV files, Excel files, images, lots of unstructured data; we track 150 different file types. This is the dark side of digital transformation.

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The Impacts of Data Loss on Your Organization

Security Affairs

JULY 3, 2023

Examples: Customer Personal Identifiable Information, transactional data, inventory records, and financial statements. Unstructured Data: Unstructured data, on the other hand, is characterized by its lack of organization and predefined format. Cyber Attacks: Cyber-attacks are another cause of data loss.

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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

Between March 5 and March 20, 2021, the threat actor conducted reconnaissance within CNA’s IT environment using legitimate tools and legitimate credentials to avoid detection and to establish persistence,” the company revealed.

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Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Birsan wondered if malware could be introduced to these projects by creating packages on the public npm repository that matched the names of these local dependencies. "dependencies": { "express": "^4.3.0", ", "pplogger": "^0.2", Version confusion.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

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New MSSQL Backdoor ‘Maggie’ Infects Hundreds of Servers Worldwide

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2022

DCSO CyTec researchers Johann Aydinbas and Axel Wauer are warning of new backdoor malware they’re calling “Maggie,” which targets Microsoft SQL servers. The malware offers a wide range of functionality, including the ability to change file permissions, run commands, and act as a network bridge into the infected server.

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Using Encryption with Access Controls to Mitigate Malware and Ransomware Damage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Using Encryption with Access Controls to Mitigate Malware and Ransomware Damage. Recently the headlines have been dominated by infected enterprise software that has resulted in malware and hackers gaining access to mission critical infrastructures, taking control of systems, and stealing data. Mon, 12/21/2020 - 07:23.

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Security Data Lakes Emerge to Address SIEM Limitations

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What is a Security Data Lake? The typical data lake serves a repository for an organization and holds unstructured data regarding company products, financial data, customer data, supplier data, and marketing information. Also read: Security Considerations for Data Lakes.

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Cooking Intelligent Detections from Threat Intelligence (Part 6)

Anton on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Atomic TTPs” here means at the level lower than ATT&CK, but without being hyper-specific to IoCs, or malware-specific signatures (Goldilocks approach: more detailed than “registry key editing by attacker” but less detailed that “RunOnce=rundll 8 2.exe”)

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Unleashing the Power of a Security Data Lake

SecureWorld News

APRIL 3, 2023

This problem becomes even more pronounced when dealing with vast amounts of data. The difference between Security Data Lake and Data Lake Corporate Data Lakes usually store unstructured data, including details about the company's products, financial metrics, customer data, marketing materials, etc.

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How Can You Protect Critical Infrastructure from Ransomware Attacks

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 9, 2021

A ransomware is a vicious type of malware that cybercriminals use to block access to business critical systems by encrypting data in files, databases, or entire computer systems, until the victim pays a ransom. This prevents malware from escalating privileges to super user to gain access to all files.

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Cooking Intelligent Detections from Threat Intelligence (Part 6)

Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Atomic TTPs” here means at the level lower than ATT&CK, but without being hyper-specific to IoCs, or malware-specific signatures (Goldilocks approach: more detailed than “registry key editing by attacker” but less detailed that “RunOnce=rundll 8 2.exe”)

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

Voltage SecureData is a cloud-native solution that’s good for secure high-scale cloud analytics, hybrid IT environments, payment data protection, SaaS apps and more. It protects both structured and unstructured data in use, at rest, in the cloud, and in analytics, checking all the important boxes.

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Top Threat Intelligence Platforms for 2021

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

It boasts unlimited scalability and queries and offers intelligence on IP and URL reputation, web applications, malware , vulnerabilities and spam. Key Features: Human-generated threat intelligence data. Centralized data platform. It’s augmented by a worldwide team of security analysts who enrich the data feeds.

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How security professionals will rise to the challenge of cyber defense in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Increasingly, personal privacy is being viewed as a human right, and the way vendors handle consumer and employee data will determine how much the public trusts them and wants to conduct business with them. Protecting unstructured data will likely be one of the biggest challenges in the new year.

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RSAC insights: Malware is now spreading via weaponized files circulating in data lakes, file shares

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CNA legal filings lift the curtain on a Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware attack

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Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack

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New MSSQL Backdoor ‘Maggie’ Infects Hundreds of Servers Worldwide

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Security Data Lakes Emerge to Address SIEM Limitations

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Unleashing the Power of a Security Data Lake

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