Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

However, as IoT innovation and adoption grows, so do the associated security risks. However, as IoT innovation and adoption grows, so do the associated security risks. This became abundantly clear last year as malware attacks on IoT devices emerged as a fast-rising threat.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

In the modern age, nation states are expanding the battlefield with targeted cyber attacks on their adversaries. Why cyber attacks?” Nation states have always sought advantages to increase their geopolitical power and secure their interests both domestically and abroad. Risk Level. Are you at risk?

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks increased by yet another 80% between February 2021 and March 2022, based on an analysis of ransomware payloads seen across the Zscaler cloud. Double-extortion attacks, which include data exfiltration in addition to encryption, are rising even faster at 117% year-over-year. PYSA/Mespinoza. REvil/Sodinokibi.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 12, 2022

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have updated their joint cybersecurity advisory, Strengthening Cybersecurity of SATCOM Network Providers and Customers , originally released March 17, 2022, with US government attribution to Russian state-sponsored malicious cyberactors.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

“If it was that easy, it just wouldn’t be an issue,” said Riley Stauffer, security and incident response analyst at managed detection and response firm Pondurance. Backups can be damaged, untested, prohibitively difficult to deploy, encrypted by attackers, or restore to the same breached state they backed up.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 28, 2022

Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy’s founder is one of the men being sued by Google. Like its predecessor TDSS, Glupteba is primarily distributed through “pay-per-install” or PPI networks , and via traffic purchased from traffic distribution systems (TDS).

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Every year, Kaspersky experts prepare forecasts for different industries, helping them to build a strong defense against any cybersecurity threats they might face in the foreseeable future. Those predictions form Kaspersky Security Bulletin (KSB), an annual project lead by Kaspersky experts. Also, we’d like to thank Prof.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Unfortunately, football fans aren’t the only ones tuning in to watch some of the best players in the world defending their national colors. After triaging said incidents to remove false positives, we collected the true positive incidents to analyze them and better comprehend how attackers were targeting the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 6, 2021

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. The best ones find the right balance between performance, security effectiveness, and cost. The primary task for WAFs is to protect specific applications from web-based attacks at the application layer.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. MUSIC] VAMOSI: If you haven’t been paying attention, cloud security is critical right now.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. These diligent defenders need to be well-prepared and have a thorough response plan. Jump ahead to: How Does Incident Response Work?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Officials with Microsoft’s Azure public cloud said the company in late August was able to stave off a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a European customer that originated in the Asia-Pacific region. The attack, which hit 2.4 Some of the traffic also came from the United States.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 15, 2021

And even a record-breaking year in Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks might have been expected as it follows the upward trend over the years. But the sheer number of attacks, their size, and a new big player in the field of DDoS extortion may raise some surprised eyebrows. The records. New methods.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To many, the answer is security – there are only 10,000 MSSPs currently operating after all. So how can MSPs – or for that matter, any company looking to add cybersecurity services to its offerings – transition effectively into the security space and add managed security services provider (MSSP) to their repertoire?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) issued a joint advisory warning of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by Russia-linked threat actors and criminal cyber threats. President Biden for more information).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

As the world marks the second Anti-Ransomware Day, there’s no way to deny it: ransomware has become the buzzword in the security community. Year after year, the attackers have grown bolder, methodologies have been refined and, of course, systems have been breached. And not without good reason. Idea #1: Ransomware gangs are gangs.

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SecureList

MAY 11, 2022

Ahead of the Anti-Ransomware Day, we summarized the tendencies that characterize ransomware landscape in 2022. This year, ransomware is no less active than before: cybercriminals continue to threaten nationwide retailers and enterprises , old variants of malware return while the new ones develop.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Vamosi: Dyn was an internet performance management and web application security company that has since been bought by Oracle. To do this, it's estimated that the distributed denial of service attack had an attack strength of 1.2 In 2016, the Mirai IoT botnet shut down part of the internet, yet variations still plague us today.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Our collective priority must be people’s physical safety, but Russia’s assault could also produce a range of cybersecurity-related risks that organizations and people will need to protect themselves against, starting today. The risk of increased stakes. But here, the stakes have changed. With a wiper malware, there is no such opportunity.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The 2023 vendor surveys arriving this quarter paint a picture of a cybersecurity landscape under attack, with priority issues affecting deployment, alert response, and exposed vulnerabilities. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 10, 2022

The narratives Moscow is most likely to push are those directed to Ukrainian defenders and civilians about the futility of fighting and the inevitability of Russian victory. These scenarios span a range of likelihood, beginning with a concept already underway and concluding with a plausible long-term shift in Russia’s cyber strategy.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

Maintaining the integrity of networks and data is a critical consideration for every organization. These are some of the best network security products we’ve identified from our complete top security products series. Top network security tools. Network Security Product. XM Cyber Platform.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Whether it’s infected emails stealing employee access credentials or the plague of r a nsomware that has menaced the business world in recent years, there are a number of ways malware can disrupt your organization. billion malware attacks worldwide in just the first half of 2022. Looking to Protect Yourself Against Malware?

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus. Their cyber methods include such things as malware insertions, such as MUD-ing, wiper attacks, like the Shamoon virus. Iranian threat actors: What are the motives behind the attacks? election process.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

However, with this has come adversaries who have grown more confident with attacking high level targets, such as the Colonial Pipeline and other critical infrastructure operations. Have hope that through the hard work and brilliant minds behind these security defenses that 2022 will not be a repeat of such high level attacks.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The rise of destructive attacks In December of last year, shortly after we released our predictions for 2023, Russian government agencies were reported to have been targeted by a data wiper called CryWiper. In January, ESET discovered a new wiper, deployed in an attack in Ukraine via the Active Directory GPO.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

” But the security community and other technology leaders have started raising the alarm, worried about the program’s potential to write malware and spread mis- and disinformation. Do you think your organization should embrace ChatGPT? As of November 2022, people can no longer ignore the artificial elephant in the room.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2022

For years, organizations have been bombarding their systems with patches and configuration changes to dodge targeted attacks, and the focus on APTs specifically from Russia has never been higher. Especially with the term being tossed around in regular media, it can be hard to understand which attacks are caused by APTs and which are not.

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