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Make them pay: Hackers devise new tactics to ensure ransomware payment
PRIVACY PRIVACY Ransomware remains one of the biggest cyber threats that organizations and governments continue to face. However, hackers are engineering new ways to extract ransom from their victims as organizations take a conscious call to decline ransom payment demands. With the fall of the most notorious ransomware gang Conti in May 2022, it was assumed…
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ISACA: Companies Still Face Many Barriers to Achieving Digital Trust
PRIVACY PRIVACY While ISACA’s concept of digital trust is increasingly recognized as key to digital transformation, business leaders are still faced with many bottlenecks Read More
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, May 2023 Edition
PRIVACY PRIVACY Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited in active attacks. First up in May’s zero-day flaws is CVE-2023-29336, which is an “elevation of privilege” weakness in Windows which…
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GULoader Campaigns: A Deep Dive Analysis of a highly evasive Shellcode based loader
PRIVACY PRIVACY Authored by: Anandeshwar Unnikrishnan Stage 1: GULoader Shellcode Deployment In recent GULoader campaigns, we are seeing a rise in NSIS-based installers delivered via E-mail as malspam that use plugin libraries to execute the GU shellcode on the victim system. The NSIS scriptable installer is a highly efficient software packaging utility. The installer behavior…
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New Botnet Campaign Exploits Ruckus Wireless Flaw
PRIVACY PRIVACY Tracked CVE-2023-25717, the flaw was recently exploited by the AndoryuBot botnet, says Fortinet Read More
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Cybersecurity stress returns after a brief calm: ProofPoint report
PRIVACY PRIVACY Global cybersecurity concerns are returning to pandemic levels as 68% of CISOs from 16 countries said they fear a cyberattack in the next 12 months, according to a ProofPoint survey. “With the disruption of the pandemic now largely behind us, the return to normal operations may imply that CISOs can breathe easier, but…
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Only 39% of IT Security Decision-Makers See it As Business Enabler
PRIVACY PRIVACY The Delinea report also suggests 36% of them believe cybersecurity is only important for compliance Read More
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NextGen Healthcare Data Breach: One Million Patient Records Affected
PRIVACY PRIVACY The breach reportedly affected a database accessed via stolen client credentials Read More
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PIPEDREAM Malware against Industrial Control Systems
PRIVACY PRIVACY Another nation-state malware, Russian in origin: In the early stages of the war in Ukraine in 2022, PIPEDREAM, a known malware was quietly on the brink of wiping out a handful of critical U.S. electric and liquid natural gas sites. PIPEDREAM is an attack toolkit with unmatched and unprecedented capabilities developed for use…
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Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services
PRIVACY PRIVACY The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly…