Month: September 2024
As Hurricane Helene approaches, CISA urges users to remain on alert for potential malicious cyber activity. Fraudulent emails and social media messages—often containing malicious links or attachments—are common after major natural disasters. Exercise caution in handling emails with hurricane-related subject lines, attachments, or hyperlinks. In addition, be wary of social media pleas, texts, or door-to-door…
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The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash, a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The government also indicted and sanctioned a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon, whose cryptocurrency exchange…
Read MoreToday, the Australian Signals Directorate Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD ACSC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other U.S. and international partners released the joint guide Detecting and Mitigating Active Directory Compromises. This guide informs organizations of recommended strategies to mitigate common techniques used by malicious actors to compromise Active Directory. Active Directory…
Read MoreCISA released five Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 26, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
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Adam Bielanski, who ran an MSP early on in his career and is now the founder and CEO of MSP+, speaks at the HaloPSA Orbit conference about how to scale a business with purpose all while maintaining sustainable growth. To run a successful MSP business, it’s crucial to foster sustainable growth through culture, innovation and…
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WordPress.org has banned WP Engine from accessing its resources and stopped delivering plugin updates to websites hosted on the platform, urging impacted users to choose other hosting providers. The open-source project claims that the move comes in response to WP Engine’s alteration of a WordPress core feature for its own profit and its blocking of…
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A crypto draining app mimicking the legitimate ‘WalletConnect’ project has been distributed over Google Play for five months getting more than 10,000 downloads. The malicious app used the name WallConnect and posed as a lightweight Web3 tool with various blockchain functionalities, offering to act as a proxy between cryptocurrency wallets and decentralized applications (dApps). The real…
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As we’ve developed Tenable’s cloud security program, we in the Infosec team have asked many questions and faced interesting challenges. Along the way, we’ve learned valuable lessons and incorporated key best practices. In this blog, we’ll discuss how we’ve approached implementing our cloud security program using Tenable Cloud Security, and share recommendations that you may…
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Sep 26, 2024The Hacker NewsThreat Detection / IT Security Imagine trying to find a needle in a haystack, but the haystack is on fire, and there are a million other needles you also need to find. That’s what dealing with security alerts can feel like. SIEM was supposed to make this easier, but somewhere along…
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Sep 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed leveraging two new malware strains dubbed KLogEXE and FPSpy. The activity has been attributed to an adversary tracked as Kimsuky, which is also known as APT43, ARCHIPELAGO, Black Banshee, Emerald Sleet (formerly Thallium), Sparkling Pisces, Springtail, and Velvet…
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