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How Ready Are You for a Ransomware Attack?

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Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra, lays out the different layers of ransomware defense all companies should implement. Determining how hard a target you present for the current wave of human-driven...

Nigerian Threat Actors Solicit Employees to Deploy Ransomware for Cut of Profits

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Campaign emails company insiders and initially offers 1 million in Bitcoin if they install DemonWare on an organization’s network. Researchers have discovered a Nigerian threat actor trying to turn an...

Researchers Detail Modus Operandi of ShinyHunters Cyber Crime Group

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By: Ravie Lakshmanan ShinyHunters, a notorious cybercriminal underground group that's been on a data breach spree since last year, has been observed searching companies' GitHub repository source code for vulnerabilities...

Windows 10 Admin Rights Gobbled by Razer Devices

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So much for Windows 10’s security: A zero-day in the device installer software grants admin rights just by plugging in a mouse or other compatible device. UPDATE: Microsoft is...

ProxyShell Attacks Pummel Unpatched Exchange Servers

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CISA is warning about a surge of ProxyShell attacks, as Huntress discovered 140 webshells launched against 1,900 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers. Over the weekend, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency...
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PC Gaming Threats Jumped 66% Amid COVID-19 Lockdowns

The number of gamers hit with PC-specific gaming-related cyberattacks increased at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic but dropped in the first and second quarters of 2021, according to...
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Attackers Increasingly Target Linux in the Cloud

Linux has been the favored operating system of system administrators and hackers, but now the operating system has become a significant target of cybercriminals as well, with malware —...

Kubernetes hardening: Drilling down on the NSA/CISA guidance

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Kubernetes has become the de facto choice for container orchestration. Some studies report that up to 88% of organizations are using Kubernetes for their container orchestration needs and 74%...