Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday that took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Redmond says the outage impacted Microsoft Entra, some Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview services (including Intune, Power BI, and Power Platform), as well as Azure App…
Read More
As federal agencies adopt a cloud-first policy, they face unique challenges in securing cloud infrastructure. Learn how Tenable Cloud Security, which is now FedRAMP “In Process,” can help. As part of the federal government’s cloud-first policy, agencies are increasingly adopting cloud computing to modernize their infrastructure and more effectively perform their missions. One key aspect…
Read More
More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, new research finds. Image: Shutterstock. Your Web browser knows how to find a site like…
Read More
Cybercriminals looking to abuse the power of generative AI to build phishing campaigns and sophisticated malware can now purchase easy access to them from underground marketplaces as large numbers of threat actors are putting stolen GenAI credentials up for sale every day. Hackers are selling usernames and passwords of approximately 400 individual GenAI accounts per…
Read More
We’ll TL;DR the FUDdy introduction: we all know that phishing attacks are on the rise in scale and complexity, that AI is enabling more sophisticated attacks that evade traditional defenses, and the never-ending cybersecurity talent gap means we’re all struggling to keep security teams fully staffed. Given that reality, security teams need to be able…
Read More
Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Japanese organizations are the target of a Chinese nation-state threat actor that leverages malware families like LODEINFO and NOOPDOOR to harvest sensitive information from compromised hosts while stealthily remaining under the radar in some cases for a time period ranging from two to three years. Israeli cybersecurity…
Read More
Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Companies in Russia and Moldova have been the target of a phishing campaign orchestrated by a little-known cyber espionage group known as XDSpy. The findings come from cybersecurity firm F.A.C.C.T., which said the infection chains lead to the deployment of a malware called DSDownloader. The activity was…
Read More
Jul 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Malware A new malicious campaign has been observed making use of malicious Android apps to steal users’ SMS messages since at least February 2022 as part of a large-scale campaign. The malicious apps, spanning over 107,000 unique samples, are designed to intercept one-time passwords (OTPs) used for online account…
Read MoreAccess Denied You don’t have permission to access “http://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/are-ransomware-attacks-still-a-growing-threat-in-2024” on this server. Reference #18.ded7ce17.1722420098.33a13ade https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.ded7ce17.1722420098.33a13ade Source link lol
Read More
7. Data exfiltration Frequently overlooked, data exfiltration is a significant cloud security threat. “Data exfiltration refers to the electronic transmission of data from a cloud environment to an unauthorized external location,” says John Henley, principal consultant at technology research and advisory firm ISG. “This could occur in several ways, including the exploitation of a vulnerability,…
Read More