Month: May 2024
One SEC Commissioner, Hester Peirce, voted for the new rule, but expressed concerns it might generate notification fatigue, which could lead to people eventually ignoring all security notifications. “My greatest concern about the rule is that its breadth could undermine the value of the customer notifications by making them so commonplace that people ignore them.…
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Find out why healthcare organizations must beware of the Black Basta ransomware group. Meanwhile, a Tenable study found that 95% of surveyed organizations suffered a cloud-related breach, and offers insights for boosting cloud security. Plus, a Cloud Security Alliance report delves into how AI systems can create risky gaps in your cloud environment. And much…
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Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a remote access trojan (RAT) known as Deuterbear used by the China-linked BlackTech hacking group as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the Asia-Pacific region this year. “Deuterbear, while similar to Waterbear in many ways, shows advancements in capabilities such as including support for shellcode plugins, avoiding…
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A new report from XM Cyber has found – among other insights – a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The State of Exposure Management in 2024, is based on hundreds of thousands of attack…
Read MoreFBI Seizes BreachForums Website The FBI has seized the BreachForums website, used by ransomware criminals to leak stolen corporate data. If law enforcement has gained access to the hacking forum’s backend data, as they claim, they would have email addresses, IP addresses, and private messages that could expose members and be used in law enforcement…
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The U.S. Justice Department charged five individuals today, a U.S. Citizen woman, a Ukrainian man, and three foreign nationals, for their involvement in cyber schemes that generated revenue for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. They were allegedly involved between October 2020 and October 2023 in a campaign coordinated by the North Korean government “to infiltrate…
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In general, though, the best way to mitigate against DDoS attacks is to simply have the capacity to withstand large amounts of inbound traffic. Depending on your situation, that might mean beefing up your own network, or making use of a content delivery network (CDN), a service designed to accommodate huge amounts of traffic. Your…
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May 17, 2024NewsroomLinux / Malware The Kimsuky (aka Springtail) advanced persistent threat (APT) group, which is linked to North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), has been observed deploying a Linux version of its GoBear backdoor as part of a campaign targeting South Korean organizations. The backdoor, codenamed Gomir, is “structurally almost identical to GoBear, with…
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“It is vital that communication over the internet remains secure,” Rosenworcel said in the statement. “Although there have been efforts to help mitigate BGP’s security risks since its original design, more work needs to be done. With this proposal, we would require broadband providers to report to the FCC on their efforts to implement industry…
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May 17, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting D-Link routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2014-100005 – A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability impacting D-Link DIR-600…
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