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Friday Squid Blogging: The Awfulness of Squid Fishing Boats It’s a pretty awful story. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: squid Posted on April 12, 2024 at 5:08 PM • 1 Comments…
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“This issue is applicable only to PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 firewalls with the configurations for both GlobalProtect gateway and device telemetry enabled,” the company said in its advisory. Customers can check if they have the GlobalProtect gateway configured under the Network > GlobalProtect > Gateways menu in the firewall’s web interface. The…
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“For several years, the US government has documented malicious cyber activity as a standard part of the Russian playbook; this latest compromise of Microsoft adds to their long list. We will continue efforts in collaboration with our federal government and private sector partners to protect and defend our systems from such threat activity,” CISA Director…
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“Test files” associated with the XZ Utils backdoor have made their way to a Rust crate known as liblzma-sys, new findings from Phylum reveal. liblzma-sys, which has been downloaded over 21,000 times to date, provides Rust developers with bindings to the liblzma implementation, an underlying library that is part of the XZ Utils data compression…
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Registration required to access results of analysis While the service has been made publicly available, CISA is enforcing account registration in order to be able to access the analysis. Any user (and organizations) can submit a threat sample for analysis, but will need to register to see the analytical results from submissions. “Please note, the…
Read MoreSmuggling Gold by Disguising it as Machine Parts Someone got caught trying to smuggle 322 pounds of gold (that’s about 1/4 of a cubic foot) out of Hong Kong. It was disguised as machine parts: On March 27, customs officials x-rayed two air compressors and discovered that they contained gold that had been “concealed in…
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The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure called DarkBeatC2, becoming the latest such tool in its arsenal after SimpleHarm, MuddyC3, PhonyC2, and MuddyC2Go. “While occasionally switching to a new remote administration tool or changing their C2 framework, MuddyWater’s methods remain constant,” Deep Instinct security researcher Simon…
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This article discusses Google Cloud and Bayer partnering to create a platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze medical images. The platform can flag anomalies for radiologists to review and summarize patient medical history. Radiologists are facing a labor shortage and burnout, and this technology is meant to improve efficiency. Google emphasizes that the…
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“High stress, the necessity for ongoing training, and the substantial responsibility of protecting digital assets all play a significant role in the persistent shortage of cybersecurity professionals,” Linder said. Transparency lacking around salary ranges for cyber roles Gender salary discrepancies identified in the ISC2 survey were a mixed bag. Women in non-managerial and middle-manager positions…
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Apr 12, 2024NewsroomWeb Security / WordPress Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a credit card skimmer that’s concealed within a fake Meta Pixel tracker script in an attempt to evade detection. Sucuri said that the malware is injected into websites through tools that allow for custom code, such as WordPress plugins like Simple Custom CSS and JS…
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