CISA Urges Caution for Security Researchers Targeted in Attack Campaign
The agency urges researchers to take precautions amid an ongoing targeted threat campaign.The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is cautioning cybersecurity researchers to keep their guard up amid...
Dark Reading to Upgrade Site Design, Performance
Improvements will make site content easier to navigate, faster, and more functional.Dark Reading will look different to readers in the days ahead, and that's a good thing.
In an effort...
Global Dwell Time Drops as Ransomware Attacks Accelerate
The length of time attackers remain undiscovered in a target network has fallen to 24 days, researchers report, but ransomware plays a role.Attackers are spending less time inside target...
Compromised Microsoft Exchange Server Used to Host Cryptominer
Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT's National Vulnerability Database
CVE-2021-3460PUBLISHED: 2021-04-13The Motorola MH702x devices, prior to version 2.0.0.301, do not properly verify the server certificate during communication with the support server which could...
DNS Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Internet-Connected Devices to Attack
Researchers uncover a fresh set of nine vulnerabilities in four TCP/IP stacks that are widely used in everything from powerful servers and firewalls to consumer IoT products.Tens of millions...
Clear & Present Danger: Data Hoarding Undermines Better Security
Facebook and Google can identify patterns of attack within their own data, but smaller businesses rarely see enough traffic to successfully identify an attack or warn users.As one of...
Microsoft Warns of Malware Delivery via Google URLs
A new campaign abuses legitimate website contact forms to send URLs that ultimately deliver the IcedID banking Trojan.Microsoft has warned organizations of a new attack campaign that uses legitimate...
Omdia Research Spotlight: XDR
Few emerging cybersecurity market segments are garnering more attention than XDR. Here, Omdia highlights its recent research on XDR.Extended Detection and Response (XDR) technology is quickly taking the enterprise...
New Malware Downloader Spotted in Targeted Campaigns
Saint Bot is being used to drop stealers on compromised systems but could be used to deliver any malware.A relatively sophisticated new malware downloader has surfaced in recent weeks...
Microsoft Uses Machine Learning to Predict Attackers’ Next Steps
Researchers build a model to attribute attacks to specific groups based on tactics, techniques and procedures, and then figure out their next move.Microsoft is developing ways to use machine...
