Tag: network security
In today’s digital world, where connectivity is rules all, endpoints serve as the gateway to a business’s digital kingdom. And because of this, endpoints are one of hackers’ favorite targets. According to the IDC, 70% of successful breaches start at the endpoint. Unprotected endpoints provide vulnerable entry points to launch devastating cyberattacks. With IT teams…
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Apr 26, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin prior to…
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Extreme President and CEO Ed Meyercord and Nabil Bukhari, chief product and technology officer, speak with CRN about how AI and GenAI are shaping Extreme’s strategy, recent networking M&A activity — including the Cisco-Splunk acquisition and the pending HPE-Juniper deal — and how Extreme’s ‘One Network, One Cloud’ approach is helping the specialist stand out.…
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Apr 25, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new remote access trojan called Kaolin RAT. The malware could, “aside from standard RAT functionality, change the last write timestamp of a selected file and load any received DLL binary from…
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Follow this real-life network attack simulation, covering 6 steps from Initial Access to Data Exfiltration. See how attackers remain undetected with the simplest tools and why you need multiple choke points in your defense strategy. Surprisingly, most network attacks are not exceptionally sophisticated, technologically advanced, or reliant on zero-day tools that exploit edge-case vulnerabilities. Instead,…
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Apr 25, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer called Samourai and seized the service for allegedly facilitating over $2 billion in illegal transactions and for laundering more than $100 million in criminal proceeds. To that end, Keonne Rodriguez, 35, and…
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Apr 25, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Zero-Day A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributing it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated state-sponsored actor it tracks under the name UAT4356 (aka…
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Apr 25, 2024NewsroomTechnology / Privacy Google has once again pushed its plans to deprecate third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser as it works to address outstanding competition concerns from U.K. regulators over its Privacy Sandbox initiative. The tech giant said it’s working closely with the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and hopes…
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“Our priority is to continue improve our zero trust end point platform with continued R&D, making it more and more accessible to more and more MSPs and more businesses that never even dreamed about having proper security in place,” said ThreatLocker co-founder and CEO Danny Jenkins MSP security powerhouse ThreatLocker, which has doubled its revenue…
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“We [are] large scale looking for — I’ll call it the ‘unknown unknown breaches’ — that are out there,’ says Eric Harmon, Trustwave CEO. ‘We develop over 1,000 proprietary use cases that are tied to that research that go into our MDR and our product offerings. We’re continuing to differentiate by finding things that others…
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