Top 10 Cybersecurity Best Practices to Combat Ransomware
Immutable storage and more: Sonya Duffin, data protection expert at Veritas Technologies, offers the Top 10 steps for building a multi-layer resilience profile.
If you’re like most IT professionals, the...
Open Source Project Aims to Detect Living-Off-the-Land Attacks
Attackers who use standard system commands during a compromise — a technique known as living off the land (LotL) — to avoid detection by defenders and endpoint security software may...
Mac Zero Day Targets Apple Devices in Hong Kong
Google researchers have detailed a widespread watering-hole attack that installed a backdoor on Apple devices that visited Hong Kong-based media and pro-democracy sites.
Since at least late August, attackers...
‘Lyceum’ Threat Group Broadens Focus to ISPs
"Lyceum," an advanced persistent threat actor associated with numerous attacks on telecom organizations and oil and natural gas companies in the Middle East since 2017, has recently begun targeting...
Invest in These 3 Key Security Technologies to Fight Ransomware
Ransomware volumes are up 1000%. Aamir Lakhani, cybersecurity researcher and practitioner at FortiGuard Labs , discusses secure email, network segmentation and sandboxing for defense.
A recent survey by Fortinet revealed that...
Abcbot — A New Evolving Wormable Botnet Malware Targeting Linux
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Researchers from Qihoo 360's Netlab security team have released details of a new evolving botnet called "Abcbot" that has been observed in the wild with worm-like propagation...
Windows 10 Privilege-Escalation Zero-Day Gets an Unofficial Fix
Researchers warn that CVE-2021-34484 can be exploited with a patch bypass for a bug originally addressed in August by Microsoft.
A partially unpatched security bug in Windows that could allow...
