After FBI Takedown, KV-Botnet Operators Shift Tactics in Attempt to Bounce Back The threat actors behind the KV-botnet made “behavioral changes” to the malicious network as U.S. law enforcement began issuing commands to neutralize the activity. KV-botnet is the name given to a network of compromised small office and home office (SOHO) routers and firewall devices across the world, with ...
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Critical Patches Released for New Flaws in Cisco, Fortinet, VMware Products
Critical Patches Released for New Flaws in Cisco, Fortinet, VMware Products Feb 08, 2024 Newsroom Cyber Threat / Network Security Cisco, Fortinet, and VMware have released security fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities, including critical weaknesses that could be exploited to perform arbitrary actions on affected devices. The first set from Cisco consists of three flaws – CVE-2024-20252 and CVE-2024-20254 (CVSS ...
Read More »Kimsuky’s New Golang Stealer ‘Troll’ and ‘GoBear’ Backdoor Target South Korea
Kimsuky’s New Golang Stealer ‘Troll’ and ‘GoBear’ Backdoor Target South Korea Feb 08, 2024 Newsroom Cyber Espionage / Malware The North Korea-linked nation-state actor known as Kimsuky is suspected of using a previously undocumented Golang-based information stealer called Troll Stealer. The malware steals “SSH, FileZilla, C drive files/directories, browsers, system information, [and] screen captures” from infected systems, South Korean cybersecurity ...
Read More »Google Starts Blocking Sideloading of Potentially Dangerous Android Apps in Singapore
Google Starts Blocking Sideloading of Potentially Dangerous Android Apps in Singapore Feb 08, 2024 Newsroom Data Protection / Mobile Securit Google has unveiled a new pilot program in Singapore that aims to prevent users from sideloading certain apps that abuse Android app permissions to read one-time passwords and gather sensitive data. “This enhanced fraud protection will analyze and automatically block ...
Read More »HijackLoader Evolves: Researchers Decode the Latest Evasion Methods
HijackLoader Evolves: Researchers Decode the Latest Evasion Methods Feb 08, 2024 Newsroom Endpoint Security / Cyber Threat The threat actors behind a loader malware called HijackLoader have added new techniques for defense evasion, as the malware continues to be increasingly used by other threat actors to deliver additional payloads and tooling. “The malware developer used a standard process hollowing technique ...
Read More »Unified Identity – look for the meaning behind the hype!
Unified Identity – look for the meaning behind the hype! Feb 08, 2024 Unified Identity / Cyber Security If you’ve listened to software vendors in the identity space lately, you will have noticed that “unified” has quickly become the buzzword that everyone is adopting to describe their portfolio. And this is great! Unified identity has some amazing benefits! However (there ...
Read More »Chinese Hackers Operate Undetected in U.S. Critical Infrastructure for Half a Decade
Chinese Hackers Operate Undetected in U.S. Critical Infrastructure for Half a Decade The U.S. government on Wednesday said the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group known as Volt Typhoon had been embedded into some critical infrastructure networks in the country for at least five years. Targets of the threat actor include communications, energy, transportation, and water and wastewater systems sectors in the ...
Read More »How a $10B Enterprise Customer Drastically Increased their SaaS Security Posture with 201% ROI by Using SSPM
How a $10B Enterprise Customer Drastically Increased their SaaS Security Posture with 201% ROI by Using SSPM SaaS applications are the darlings of the software world. They enable work from anywhere, facilitate collaboration, and offer a cost-effective alternative to owning the software outright. At the same time, the very features that make SaaS apps so embraced – access from anywhere ...
Read More »Russian TrickBot Mastermind Gets 5-Year Prison Sentence for Cybercrime Spree
Russian TrickBot Mastermind Gets 5-Year Prison Sentence for Cybercrime Spree Jan 26, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Malware 40-year-old Russian national Vladimir Dunaev has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for his role in creating and distributing the TrickBot malware, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. The development comes nearly two months after Dunaev pleaded guilty to ...
Read More »Microsoft Warns of Widening APT29 Espionage Attacks Targeting Global Orgs
Microsoft Warns of Widening APT29 Espionage Attacks Targeting Global Orgs Jan 26, 2024NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cyber Attack Microsoft on Thursday said the Russian state-sponsored threat actors responsible for a cyber attack on its systems in late November 2023 have been targeting other organizations and that it’s currently beginning to notify them. The development comes a day after Hewlett Packard Enterprise ...
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