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Vulnerability Recap 4/15/24 – Palo Alto, Microsoft, Ivanti Exploits

eSecurity Planet

Last week’s cybersecurity incidents revealed significant vulnerabilities across multiple platforms. Threats range from severe weaknesses in Ivanti’s VPN appliances to zero-day exploits in popular software such as Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS and Telegram’s Windows client.

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Attacks Escalating Against Linux-Based IoT Devices

eSecurity Planet

Incidents of malware targeting Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices jumped by more than a third in 2021, with three malware families the primary drivers behind the increase. There was a 10-fold increase in the number of samples of Mozi found in the wild, Mihai Maganu, a threat researcher at CrowdStrike, wrote in a blog post.

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Protecting your Customers and Brand in 2022: Are you doing enough?

Jane Frankland

Customers want more, and so do their stakeholders. Today, in business, it’s all about working with digital natives – customers, partner companies, and employees – building trust and implementing advanced solutions to enhance their experience. In today’s digital economy, everyone is experiencing record evolution.

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Spyware in the IoT – the Biggest Privacy Threat This Year

SiteLock

It’s designed to make our homes more comfortable and workplaces more efficient. But, every advancement towards realizing a 21st century quality of life comes with a wave of security threats, old and new. Your home systems are more vulnerable than you think. Think your table lamps can’t expose you to danger?

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Preparing for Ransomware: Are Backups Enough?

eSecurity Planet

In a year where ransomware has raised the alert levels everywhere, the go-to answer from many is redundancy through offline, remote backups – but are they enough? Like any other digital machine, backup systems are vulnerable to data loss and compromise. Read more: REvil Ransomware Group Resurfaces After Two Months Away.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. How ransomware works. How ransomware works. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? Preventing ransomware. Ransomware types.

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Old foe or new enemy? Here’s how researchers handle APT attribution

SC Magazine

So when researchers claim to uncover that a previously unknown APT group is behind a series of attacks – as threat hunters from Malwarebytes did this week in announcing their discovery of a newly observed actor called LazyScripter – it’s usually an intriguing development. Scazon / CC BY 2.0 ).

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