The French police and Europol are pushing out a “disinfection solution” that automatically removes the PlugX malware from infected devices in France. The operation is conducted by the Center for the Fight Against Digital Crime (C3N) of the National Gendarmerie with assistance by French cybersecurity firm Sekoia, which sinkholed a command and control server for…
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Most security companies say they use artificial intelligence to help thwart cyber-attacks, but what they really mean can vary dramatically. So how can organization’s vet providers’ claims in this area? In this piece, we’ll look under the covers at how best to use AI in one of the most critical cyber security realms: extended detection…
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While it may take time, CrowdStrike is likely to restore the confidence of customers, solution providers tell CRN. It won’t happen overnight, but CrowdStrike is ultimately poised to recover from the reputational damage wrought since the massive July 19 outage, solution provider executives told CRN. CrowdStrike’s acclaimed cybersecurity technology and strong response to the incident…
Read MoreCISA released two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on July 25, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
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Jul 25, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Espionage A North Korea-linked threat actor known for its cyber espionage operations has gradually expanded into financially-motivated attacks that involve the deployment of ransomware, setting it apart from other nation-state hacking groups linked to the country. Google-owned Mandiant is tracking the activity cluster under a new moniker APT45, which overlaps…
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New data from cloud insurance firm Parametrix sheds light on the financial cost of the massive CrowdStrike outage last week that affected millions of Microsoft devices. The massive CrowdStrike outage that affected millions of Microsoft devices is predicted to cost U.S. Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion in total direct financial loss, with an average loss…
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‘This year we have got a big one coming [with HashiCorp]. … Part of the discipline is also making sure that we kind of digest them at the right rate and pace and put them into our global market distribution engine,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on the company’s second-quarter earnings call. IBM exceeded expectations…
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Google Chrome now warns when downloading risky password-protected files and provides improved alerts with more information about potentially malicious downloaded files. These new, more detailed warning messages help users quickly learn the nature of the danger presented by each file downloaded from the Internet. For this, Google introduced a two-tier download warning system that uses AI-powered…
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Once upon a time, I.T. security teams depended on hodgepodges of different cybersecurity solutions from various vendors. However, these multivendor tech stacks became prohibitively costly and complex to integrate and manage, creating gaps for threat actors to exploit. In a webinar for MSP and SME leaders, Cynet experts will explain how these challenges are driving…
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“An attacker could exploit a bypass using an API request with Content-Length set to 0, causing the Docker daemon to forward the request without the body to the AuthZ plugin, which might approve the request incorrectly,” Docker said in the advisory. The AuthZ plugin would have otherwise denied the request if the body had been…
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