Month: July 2024
Harrell tells CRN that managed security services and advisory services—leveraging Dataminr’s AI platform—represent massive opportunities for partners. AI platform provider Dataminr announced Tuesday it has hired former Cloudflare channel chief Matt Harrell as its new chief partner officer, with the company looking to intensify its push with partners around security services. Speaking with CRN, Harrell…
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Identity-based threats on SaaS applications are a growing concern among security professionals, although few have the capabilities to detect and respond to them. According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), 90% of all cyberattacks begin with phishing, an identity-based threat. Throw in attacks that use stolen credentials, over-provisioned accounts, and insider threats,…
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Speculations on the method Cybersecurity experts pointed out that in recent incidents, hackers have breached Slack accounts by exploiting stolen or leaked API keys. “Developers often integrate Slack into their automation tools, and in the process, sometimes accidentally leak these keys on code-sharing sites like GitHub or API platforms like Postman,” said Rahul Sasi, CEO…
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Compromised call and text records AT&T disclosed the breach in an SEC filing and said no actual content of any of the calls or texts had been compromised. “The data does not contain the content of calls or texts, personal information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, or other personally identifiable information,” the…
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Cybersixgill Insider Threats: Government and military Transcending from cybercrime to espionage, we discovered several posts in which actors solicited governmental or government-affiliated insiders to provide information. This includes individuals, like in the image below, who can provide national citizen databases to assist in doxing. An actor seeking an insider in the French government to provide…
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The Iranian nation-state actor known as MuddyWater has been observed using a never-before-seen backdoor as part of a recent attack campaign, shifting away from its well-known tactic of deploying legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software for maintaining persistent access. That’s according to independent findings from cybersecurity firms Check Point and Sekoia, which have codenamed…
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“One likely reason for UHG’s negligence, and the company’s failure to adopt industry-standard cyber defenses, is that the company’s top cybersecurity official appears to be unqualified for the job. [Name omitted] had not worked in a fulltime cybersecurity role before he was elevated to the top cybersecurity position at UHG in June, 2023, after working…
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Jul 16, 2024NewsroomOpen Source / Software Supply Chain Cybersecurity researchers have identified two malicious packages on the npm package registry that concealed backdoor code to execute malicious commands sent from a remote server. The packages in question – img-aws-s3-object-multipart-copy and legacyaws-s3-object-multipart-copy – have been downloaded 190 and 48 times each. As of writing, they have…
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A group of hacktivists claims to have breached the IT systems of Disney, and stolen a gigantic 1.1 terabytes worth of data from the entertainment giant’s internal Slack messaging channels. The hacking group, which calls itself NullBulge, posted on an underground hacking forum that it had hoped to postpone announcing the breach until it had…
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