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Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

What’s the key to effective security? How can we continue to defend against the ever-rising tide of cyberattacks amid a constantly evolving perimeter and the unprecedented acceleration of hybrid work? And let’s not forget about the proliferation of devices connecting to the network, and the mass movement of applications into the cloud. If we’ve learned…

Software Security

Issued by: Help Net Security

Common Sense Media released a report examining kids’ privacy trends and practices of hundreds of popular technology companies and products over the last five years. The report is the culmination of evaluating privacy policy data from 200 of the most popular companies and products aimed at children and students. The report finds some improvements for…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

“If we have 1 Millions $ in our wallet in the next 48 hours, we will not leak this information and also we will not sell it to anybody,” Black Shadow wrote on Telegram. The Atraf dating site was compromised after the group hacked CyberServe, an Israeli internet service provider whose clients include public transportation…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The attacks target organizations across multiple sectors in Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, Europe, and more, and have seen low detection rates in Google’s VirusTotal scanning engine. Dubbed MirrorBlast, the campaign started in early September, following similar activity in April 2021, Morphisec’s security researchers reveal. The infection chain starts with a malicious document delivered…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) is touted as the security solution for the increasingly complex modern IT ecosphere. The principle is to extend EDR threat hunting beyond the endpoint and across the entire infrastructure. Cybereason has announced a partnership with Google Chronicle – the latter to provide ecosphere data, and the former to provide the…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Botnets continue to be a major problem for cybersecurity teams. With the growth in sophisticated threats, botnets are becoming more malicious, sometimes able to create hundreds of thousands of drones that can attack a variety of machines, including Mac systems, Linux, Windows systems, edge devices, IoT devices, and so on. Examining threat trends around botnet…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The threat group, tracked until now by Mandiant as UNC1878, has been around since at least October 2018. The UNC classification is assigned to “uncategorized” entities before the cybersecurity firm can determine with certainty if it’s a financially-motivated group (FIN) or a state-sponsored advanced persistent threat actor (APT). The threat group, tracked until now by…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The vast increase in staff from all industries working from home, outside of their corporate network defenses and often on poorly protected home computers, has been a treasure trove for hackers. Two common attack methodologies have been phishing (where the pandemic has provided the opportunity to add two of the most compelling social engineering triggers:…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cyentia Institute and RiskRecon released a research that quantifies how a multi-party data breach impacts many organizations in today’s interconnected digital world. The study is based on an analysis of 897 multi-party breaches involving three or more interrelated companies. The impact of multi-party data breach events 897 multi-party data breach incidents, also referred to as…

Network Security

Issued by: Kaspersky Blog

Recent large-scale DDoS attacks using a new botnet called Mēris peaked at almost 22 million requests per second. According to Qrator research, MikroTik’s network devices generated a fair share of the botnet’s traffic. Having analyzed the situation, MikroTik experts found no new vulnerabilities in the company’s routers; however, old ones may still pose a threat….