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News Alert: CrowdSec report highlights the rise of IPv6 in cyber criminal activities

The Last Watchdog

Key takeaways from the report include the rise of IPv6 as well as the role of VPN in cybercriminal activities. For October 2022–June 2023, the CrowdSec network detected increased new threats linked to IPv6 addresses. Only 5% of reported IPs are flagged as VPN or proxy users.

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Lapsus$ Ransomware Group is hiring, it announced recruitment of insiders

Security Affairs

Notably, the actors are looking to buy remote VPN access and asking potential insiders to contact them privately via Telegram, they then reward them by paying for the access granted. Cybersecurity experts agree such activity creates a major insider threat risk and likely will be leveraged more actively by various threat actors on Dark Web.

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Which is the Threat landscape for the ICS sector in 2020?

Security Affairs

Computers that use VPN software are less exposed to online threats, but unfortunately, they represent only 15% of the total. Such threats were blocked more often on computers with VPN software.” ” continues the report. Computers with remote access software (64.6%

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How CASB and EDR Protect Federal Agencies in the Age of Work from Home

McAfee

According to an Analysis Report (AR20-268A) from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), this new normal work environment has put federal agencies at risk of falling victim to cyber-attacks that exploit their use of Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and misuse their VPN remote access services.

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Hackers target zero-day flaws in enterprise Draytek network devices

Security Affairs

The two critical remote command injection vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-8515 affect DrayTek Vigor network devices, including enterprise switches, routers, load-balancers, and VPN gateway. If you have not updated the firmware yet, disable remote access (admin) and SSL VPN. 2/2) — 360 Netlab (@360Netlab) December 25, 2019.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Anton on Security

To further illustrate this point, one of the innovations sandbox participants showed the slide that mentioned that the VPN market alone today is larger than the entirety of all cloud security markets, defined broadly and loosely, and then rounded upwards. There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022.

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Introduction to the purpose of AWS Transit Gateway

CyberSecurity Insiders

AWS Transit Gateway architecture is used to consolidate site-to-site VPN connections from your on-premises network to your AWS environment and support connectivity between your team development and workload hosting VPCs and your infrastructure shared services VPC.