Category: Viral
Sep 05, 2024The Hacker NewsThreat Detection / Vulnerability Management It’s been a decade since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) introduced its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 1.0. Created following a 2013 Executive Order, NIST was tasked with designing a voluntary cybersecurity framework that would help organizations manage cyber risk, providing guidance based on established…
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Threat actors are likely employing a tool designated for red teaming exercises to serve malware, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. The program in question is a payload generation framework called MacroPack, which is used to generate Office documents, Visual Basic scripts, Windows shortcuts, and other formats for penetration testing and social engineering assessments.…
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Sep 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware The Chinese-speaking threat actor known as Earth Lusca has been observed using a new backdoor dubbed KTLVdoor as part of a cyber attack targeting an unnamed trading company based in China. The previously unreported malware is written in Golang, and thus is a cross-platform weapon capable of targeting…
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Sep 05, 2024Ravie Lakshmanan Cisco has released security updates for two critical security flaws impacting its Smart Licensing Utility that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to elevate their privileges or access sensitive information. A brief description of the two vulnerabilities is below – CVE-2024-20439 (CVSS score: 9.8) – The presence of an undocumented static user…
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Business Security Would a more robust cybersecurity posture impact premium costs? Does the policy offer legal cover? These are some of the questions organizations should consider when reviewing their cyber insurance options 04 Sep 2024 • , 3 min. read There must be a consideration of the ethical question of contributing to the payment of…
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‘The company plans to shift the narrative from merely serving MSPs to empowering them to provide exceptional service to their customers,’ says new ScalePad CEO Chris Day. Chris Day, ScalePad’s founder and executive chairman, has taken over as CEO of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based vendor and has his sights on the future. With about 12,000…
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The new subpoenas are an escalation beyond the questionnaires the Justice Department previously sent to Nvidia, according to Bloomberg. Nvidia has reportedly received legally binding requests for information from the United States as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the semiconductor vendor broke antirust rules as part of its domination over the…
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Sep 04, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security Google has released its monthly security updates for the Android operating system to address a known security flaw that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-32896 (CVSS score: 7.8), relates to a case of privilege escalation in the Android…
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‘Our partnership with IBM reinforces our commitment to innovation and our conviction in the tremendous benefit of QRadar customers adopting Cortex XSIAM for a robust, data-driven security platform that offers transformative efficiency and effectiveness in defending against evolving cyberthreats,’ says Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora. Cybersecurity superstar Palo Alto Networks completed its $500 million…
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“We’ve been working closely with customers to evaluate and test these new devices, and the feedback has been incredible,” Microsoft GM Nancie Gaskill said in a blog post. Microsoft will make several new Surface devices aimed at business users available this month, including the Surface Laptop 7th Edition, Surface Pro 11th Edition and Surface Pro…
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