Category: Viral
Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. The web infrastructure and security company said it fended off “over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3…
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Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a strategic framework that helps organizations continuously assess and manage cyber risk. It breaks down the complex task of managing security threats into five distinct stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization. Each of these stages plays a crucial role in identifying, addressing, and mitigating vulnerabilities – before they…
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ESET researchers observed several campaigns targeting governmental institutions in Thailand, starting in 2023. These attacks leveraged revamped versions of components previously attributed by other researchers to the China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group Mustang Panda, and later, a new set of tools that abuse service providers such as Pastebin, Dropbox, OneDrive, and GitHub to execute…
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The Microsoft-DOJ effort has aimed to disrupt the group Star Blizzard—tied to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)—which has been ‘targeting Microsoft customers globally.’ Microsoft disclosed details Thursday about a recent effort to disrupt the activities of a “relentless” Russia-linked threat group, which has targeted Microsoft customers worldwide including in the U.S., the company said. The…
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‘The popularity of Agentic AI can be seen in the solutions built by Salesforce, ServiceNow, Glean and others, as well as the custom agents our clients are asking us to build using Google’s Gemini technology,’ says the CEO of a Google Cloud partner. Google Cloud partners are hopeful that Google reportedly paying $2.7 billion to…
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Oct 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Technology Google has revealed the various security guardrails that have been incorporated into its latest Pixel devices to counter the rising threat posed by baseband security attacks. The cellular baseband (i.e., modem) refers to a processor on the device that’s responsible for handling all connectivity, such as LTE, 4G,…
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A cybersecurity researcher tells CRN that his own family was recently targeted with a convincing voice-clone scam. While audio deepfake attacks against businesses have rapidly become commonplace in recent years, one cybersecurity researcher says it’s increasingly clear that voice-clone scams are also targeting private individuals. He knows this first-hand, in fact. The researcher, Kyle Wilhoit…
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For years, securing a company’s systems was synonymous with securing its “perimeter.” There was what was safe “inside” and the unsafe outside world. We built sturdy firewalls and deployed sophisticated detection systems, confident that keeping the barbarians outside the walls kept our data and systems safe. The problem is that we no longer operate within…
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Oct 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Linux servers are the target of an ongoing campaign that delivers a stealthy malware dubbed perfctl with the primary aim of running a cryptocurrency miner and proxyjacking software. “Perfctl is particularly elusive and persistent, employing several sophisticated techniques,” Aqua security researchers Assaf Morag and Idan Revivo said in a…
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“You have to be careful where you position it, because it’s not for everybody,” Compucom VP Mike Monahan said. Although the artificial intelligence PC revolution is still booting up, solution providers are already planning how to work with customers to determine the right time to buy, with early selling points for customers focusing on the…
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