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First Known Malware Surfaces Targeting Windows Containers

Siloscape is designed to create a backdoor in Kubernetes clusters to run malicious containers.Organizations running Windows containers in their Kubernetes cluster have a brand-new threat to worry about. Researchers from...
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REvil Behind JBS Ransomware Attack: FBI

Officials attribute the attack to REvil/Sodinokibi and say they are working to bring the threat actors to justice.The FBI has attributed the recent ransomware attack targeting meat supplier JBS...
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Google Experts Explore Open Source Security Challenges & Fixes

An open source security event brought discussions of supply chain security and managing flaws in open source projects.As more organizations rely on open source components in their software, the...
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Proposed Sale Casts Cloud Over Future of FireEye’s Products

Symphony Technology Group, which is buying FireEye, already owns multiple security companies "with redundancies in numerous areas."Security analysts expect that FireEye's decision to sell off its products business will...
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New Barebones Ransomware Strain Surfaces

The authors of Epsilon Red have offloaded many tasks that are usually integrated into the ransomware -- such as Volume Shadow Copy deletion -- to PowerShell scripts.Researchers at Sophos...
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Is Your Adversary James Bond or Mr. Bean?

Especially with nation-state attacks, its critical to assess whether you're up against jet fighter strength or a bumbler who tries to pick locks.For years, nation-states have targeted private organizations...
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Critical Zero-Day Discovered in Fancy Product Designer WordPress Plug-in

The plug-in under active attack has been installed on more than 17,000 websites, say researchers.A recently discovered critical file upload vulnerability is being actively exploited in Fancy Product Designer, a...
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Microsoft Buys ReFirm Labs to Drive IoT Security Efforts

The acquisition will bring ReFirm's firmware analysis capabilities alongside Microsoft's Azure Defender for IoT to boost device security.Microsoft has confirmed its acquisition of ReFirm Labs as part of a...
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FireEye Sells Products Business to Symphony Group for $1.2B

The transaction will include the FireEye brand name; the business that remains will be called Mandiant Solutions.FireEye announced today it will sell its products business, including the FireEye name,...
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US Seizes Attacker Domains Used in USAID Phishing Campaign

The move follows last week's disclosure of an ongoing attack designed to mimic emails from the US Agency for International Development.The United States has seized two command-and-control (C2) and...