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May 21, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / API Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in a popular logging and metrics utility called Fluent Bit that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS), information disclosure, or remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4323, has been codenamed Linguistic Lumberjack by Tenable Research. It impacts versions…
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Watch for discontent in the shadows When it comes to IRM, CISOs focus predominantly on technologies: user entity behavior analytics (UEBA), security information and event management (SIEM), data loss prevention, and the like. There isn’t as much emphasis on stepping outside the view of their colleagues as streams of user data, to instead see them…
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With its acquisition of Locuz, slated to close during the third quarter, SHI gains an 800-person team with extensive experience in CloudOps, SecOps, HPCOps, AIOps, and insight as a service. Global IT solution provider SHI International Monday said it plans to acquire India-based Locuz Enterprise Solutions, a provider of cybersecurity and digital transformation services. With…
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From the editors of Network World, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps network and security IT staff understand the issues their organizations face around protecting corporate data in a hybrid cloud environment and how to choose the right solution. Source link lol
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Tenable Research has discovered a critical memory corruption vulnerability dubbed Linguistic Lumberjack in Fluent Bit, a core component in the monitoring infrastructure of many cloud services. Key takeaways Fluent Bit is a logging utility heavily used by all major cloud providers. Tenable Research discovered a critical vulnerability dubbed Linguistic Lumberjack (CVE-2024-4323) within Fluent Bit’s built-in…
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Multiple threat actors are weaponizing a design flaw in Foxit PDF Reader to deliver a variety of malware such as Agent Tesla, AsyncRAT, DCRat, NanoCore RAT, NjRAT, Pony, Remcos RAT, and XWorm. “This exploit triggers security warnings that could deceive unsuspecting users into executing harmful commands,” Check Point said in a technical report. “This exploit…
Read MoreIBM Sells Cybersecurity Group IBM is selling its QRadar product suite to Palo Alto Networks, for an undisclosed—but probably surprisingly small—sum. I have a personal connection to this. In 2016, IBM bought Resilient Systems, the startup I was a part of. It became part if IBM’s cybersecurity offerings, mostly and weirdly subservient to QRadar. That…
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“On the other hand, several China-aligned threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in public-facing appliances, such as VPNs and firewalls, and software, such as Confluence and Microsoft Exchange Server, for initial access to targets in multiple verticals,” the researchers wrote. “North Korea-aligned groups continued to target aerospace and defense companies and the cryptocurrency industry.” Russia-aligned APT groups…
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May 20, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have observed a spike in email phishing campaigns starting early March 2024 that delivers Latrodectus, a nascent malware loader believed to be the successor to the IcedID malware. “These campaigns typically involve a recognizable infection chain involving oversized JavaScript files that utilize WMI’s ability to invoke msiexec.exe…
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“When you go to the combatant commands, they’re, of course, worried that you’re standing up a new combatant command with separate authorities, and how will that work? A big part of our outreach was going to those combatant commands and talking about how Cybercom would support them as opposed to how Cybercom would be supported.…
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