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The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide.…
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What is whitelisting? Whitelisting is a cybersecurity strategy under which only pre-approved or trusted users, entities, or actions are allowed to operate on a system or network. Instead of trying to keep one step ahead of cyber attackers to identify and block malicious code, with a whitelist approach, IT security teams instead identify trustworthy agents,…
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Jun 07, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of cyber attacks targeting defense forces in the country with a malware called SPECTR as part of an espionage campaign dubbed SickSync. The agency attributed the attacks to a threat actor it tracks under the moniker UAC-0020, which is…
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First, “we take a working backwards approach to product development. This means that we start by understanding our customers’ needs and build our products around them. From design time forward, our security and product teams work together to ensure our products meet our customers’ expectations for security.” The next step is to sit with the…
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Jun 07, 2024NewsroomCryptojacking / Vulnerability The threat actor known as Commando Cat has been linked to an ongoing cryptojacking attack campaign that leverages poorly secured Docker instances to deploy cryptocurrency miners for financial gain. “The attackers used the cmd.cat/chattr docker image container that retrieves the payload from their own command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure,” Trend Micro researchers…
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When CISA called on the world’s leading software manufacturers to sign its Secure by Design Pledge, Tenable answered promptly and enthusiastically, becoming part of the first wave of supporters of this landmark initiative. In this blog post, Tenable CSO, Head of Research and President of Public Sector Robert Huber explains the significance of this pledge…
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The most likely way the FBI will associate specific keys with specific victims — assuming that particular victim contacts the authorities — is that “the FBI will generate a script that will run all 7,000-plus keys” against the victim’s still-locked files, Levine said. There’s also a possibility that LockBit was reusing keys, he said. A reason…
Read MoreEspionage with a Drone The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone. Tags: drones, espionage, national security policy, photos Posted on June 6, 2024 at 11:51 AM • 0 Comments Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by…
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Did your company fall victim to the LockBit ransomware? Have cybercriminals left gigabytes of your data encrypted, with no easy route for recovery that doesn’t involve paying a ransom? Well, don’t fear. The FBI announced this week that it had obtained over 7,000 decryption keys for the LockBit ransomware and is urging victims to…
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From the editors of CSO, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps security IT staff understand what password managers can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution. Source link lol
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