Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The Dark Web allows cybercriminals to create a Cyber Attacks-as-a-Service ecosystem that outmaneuvers security defenses. Here are tips on how businesses can try to thwart cybercrime.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 11, 2020

A Trend Micro report finds that spammers are using public and hosted cloud infrastructure to slip malicious emails past security defenses.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Bitdefender is calling the malware S1deload Stealer for its use of DLL side-loading techniques to get past security defenses and execute its malicious components. Once infected, S1deload Stealer steals

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The Hacker News

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an evasive malware campaign that makes use of valid code signing certificates to sneak past security defenses and stay under the radar with the goal of deploying Cobalt Strike and BitRAT payloads on compromised systems.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Zero trust isn't a silver bullet, but if implemented well it can help create a much more robust security defense.

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Dark Reading

JULY 13, 2021

More than half of enterprises surveyed for Dark Reading's State of Malware Threats report indicate they are making at least a few changes to their supply chain security defenses following recent attacks on software vendors such as SolarWinds.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As some hackers have developed a malware that uses code signing certificates to avoid detection by security defenses and has the tendency to download payloads onto a compromised system.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Employees are often your first line of security defense when the bad guys come calling -- providing your workers are properly trained. Security leaders share how they're raising awareness.

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Digital Shadows

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It is because of this value that we’re delighted to announce today that we’ve entered into a new partnership with ThreatConnect, the leading provider of security software and services including the ThreatConnect® Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP).

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CSO Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

To protect your enterprise against security threats, you need maximum visibility. That’s the fundamental notion behind SIEM (security information and event management) software, which is essential to the security defenses of most large and many medium enterprises.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A security expert found a way to work around Microsoft's Address Space Randomization Layer, which protects the OS from memory-based attacks.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 25, 2021

No security defense is perfect, and shadow IT means no company can inventory every single asset that it has. David “moose” Wolpoff, CTO at Randori, discusses strategies for core asset protection given this reality.

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Part of a robust security strategy involves performing what is known as a penetration test (pen test). The penetration test helps to discover vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your security defenses before the bad guys discover these. They can also help validate remedial

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 29, 2022

Understanding the threat landscape is one thing; extracting and leveraging actionable threat intelligence to reinforce an organization’s defensive posture is another. In our new Hacker’s Almanac […]. The post The Four Pillars of a Cybersecurity Strategy That Works appeared first on Radware Blog.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Everyone knows that cybersecurity is a red-hot career field, and chief security officers (or chief information security officers in many organizations) are the ones leading the online security defense.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Companies collaborate to strengthen organizations' first line of security defense – end users.

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Dark Reading

JULY 24, 2018

In cyber, needles (that is, threats) can disappear quickly, for a variety of reasons, and long often after hackers have completed what they came to do.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Black Lotus is able to disable security solutions, including Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity (HVCI), BitLocker, and Windows Defender. The rootkit is able to bypass security defenses like UAC and Secure Boot, it is able to load unsigned drivers used to perform a broad range of malicious activities.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A savvy phishing campaign manages to evade native Microsoft security defenses, looking to steal O365 credentials.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

Cybercriminals have honed in on the influx of new devices connected to the home network as an opportunity to execute ransomware attacks, steal information, or compromise public school district’s security defenses.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

How to bolster security defenses by zeroing in on the length of time an interloper remains undetected inside your network.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The collaboration will expand cybersecurity professional education and training by providing professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to begin and advance their cybersecurity careers, fostering stronger national security defenses.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 27, 2022

We are at a point where the scale and complexity of historical security defenses either aren’t working or are stretched to their limits. This means CISOs need to think about security transformation, and as they do, every process and layer of the security technology stack is in play.

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Spinone

JANUARY 17, 2023

It quietly makes its way past your security defenses into the heart of your data and keeps it hostage until you pay a ransom. Ransomware is a sly, silent, and vicious criminal. To defend against it you need to understand how you get ransomware in the first place?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 15, 2020

In fact, the cyber operations budget is higher than the budgets for the CISA, the FBI and the Department of Justice's National Security Division combined ($3.7 government budgeted as much on military construction for cyber units as it did for the entirety of Homeland Security ($1.9 billion compared to $2.21 billion compared to $371.4

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Dark Reading

JUNE 4, 2019

The tactics and techniques most commonly used to slip past security defenses and catch employees off guard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2021

And as per the notification issued on an official note, experienced analogue workers will be available to help security, defense, development and foreign policy sectors on 24×7 basis to boost resiliency of UK’s critical digital infrastructure from September 2022.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2023

The attackers were able to interfere with security tools using Group Policy Objects (GPO). Once bypassed the security defenses, the attackers deployed the ransomware payload in the NETLOGON shares on several domain controllers. Then the attackers maintain persistence by registering a scheduled task using GPO.

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Threatpost

MARCH 11, 2020

Attackers are using YouTube redirect links, whitelisted by various security defense mechanisms, to evade detection.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2021

The company confirmed the security breach and launched an investigation into the incident with the help of external security experts. “GIGABYTE, a major manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, confirmed that some servers were attacked by hackers today, and the security defense was activated as soon as possible.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Many enterprises are spending billions of dollars every year on network and endpoint security defenses — often to no avail, as data breaches persist and accelerate. The study also points out that the leading cause of these costly and potentially damaging events is malicious or criminal activity.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2022

Some believe it should be a requirement for organizations to have in the event of a cyberattack, while others might prefer to rely on their security defenses and avoid paying a costly rate. Cyber insurance is a topic that many industry professionals have an opinion on.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The dissemination phase consists of active processing and dissemination of the processed data for the purpose of communicating the actionable intelligence for the purpose of ensuring that an organizations defense is actively aware of the threats facing its infrastructure and security defense mechanisms.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Menlo Security , a leader in cloud security, today announced it has identified a surge in cyberthreats, termed Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT), that bypass traditional security defenses. The top three brands impersonated in phishing attacks are Microsoft, PayPal, and Amazon.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 15, 2022

By shifting security professionals’ mindset from a disparate, tool-based approach to a platform approach, businesses can improve their identity security defenses to protect against the modern threat landscape.” .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Through ongoing risk-based vulnerability assessments, you can continually evaluate the strength of your security defenses and promptly detect cracks in the armor – on the human, network, application, and systems fronts. This helps you identify logical flaws, misconfigurations, and unknown vulnerabilities that scanners may miss.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Microsoft reminds everyone that the threat landscape in Ukraine continues to evolve everyday, with data wipers and destructive attacks being a consistent theme, many of which rely on the same security weaknesses to succeed. Organizations should continue to build their security defenses to protect against these threats.

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