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Emotet first appeared in 2014, but like Zeus, is now a modular program most often used to deliver other forms of malware, with Trickster and Ryuk being two prominent examples. Emotet is so good at what it does that Arne Schoenbohm, head of the German Federal Office for Information Security, calls it the “king of…
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Aug 30, 2024The Hacker NewsICS Security / OT Security A comprehensive guide authored by Dean Parsons emphasizes the growing need for specialized ICS security measures in the face of rising cyber threats. With a staggering 50% increase in ransomware attacks targeting industrial control systems (ICS) in 2023, the SANS Institute is taking decisive action by…
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From a software perspective, Sovereign SASE supports the same features that are provided as part of Fortinet’s security service edge (SSE) offering, FortiSASE. The difference with Sovereign SASE is how SASE is deployed, Shah said. With Sovereign SASE, customers or partners (including managed security service providers) host the hardware based on Fortinet’s predefined hardware bundles,…
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The integrated F5/Intel offering, which is available, will be particularly beneficial for edge applications, such as video analytics and IoT, where low latency and high performance are crucial, wrote Kunal Anand, chief technology officer with F5, in a blog about the technology. “F5 NGINX Plus works as a reverse proxy, offering traffic management and protection…
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‘We did a higher percentage of the business through the channel in Q2 than we have during my tenure at any time,’ Citrix channel chief Ethan Fitzsimons tells CRN in an interview. Almost two years after Citrix was taken private and merged with enterprise software vendor Tibco, the virtualization and desktop delivery company is “more…
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Defenders should watch for an archive file named Network Security.zip, which includes an .exe with the Tickler malware, and for a Trojan dropper named sold.dll. Here’s another example of Peach Sandstorm tactics detailed by Microsoft: After hacking into a European defense organization, the gang moved laterally using the Windows SMB (Server Message Block) protocol. This…
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Other levels of compensation, without RCE, include demonstrating a controlled write or a memory corruption. The baseline for bugs that do not demonstrate such “higher-quality reports” range from US$7,000 to US$25,000. Last year, the total payouts in Google’s bug hunter program were US$10 million dollars, distributed among 632 people from 68 countries. Just over a…
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Aug 29, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware A non-profit supporting Vietnamese human rights has been the target of a multi-year campaign designed to deliver a variety of malware on compromised hosts. Cybersecurity company Huntress attributed the activity to a threat cluster known as APT32, a Vietnamese-aligned hacking crew that’s also known as APT-C-00, Canvas Cyclone…
Read MoreAdm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published The “long lost lecture” by Adm. Grace Hopper has been published by the NSA. (Note that there are two parts.) It’s a wonderful talk: funny, engaging, wise, prescient. Remember that talk was given in 1982, less than a year before the ARPANET switched to TCP/IP and…
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Importantly, with its development based in Dubai and St Petersburg, Telegram isn’t an American company. For prosecutors, both inside and outside of the US, that has become an issue. Should the authorities want to grab metadata such as the IP address of a specific user on a social media, messaging or email platform, companies registered…
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