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In Case You Missed RSA Conference 2022: A News Digest

RSA Conference 2022 - If you didn't make the trip to San Francisco last week for the RSA Conference or were too busy watching the Golden State Warriors battle...
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Exposed Travis CI API Leaves All Free-Tier Users Open to Attack

A security flaw in the Travis CI API has left tens of thousands of developers' user tokens and other sensitive information exposed to attack, as threat actors could use...
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Symbiote Malware Poses Stealthy, Linux-Based Threat to Financial Industry

A stealthy Linux threat called Symbiote is targeting financial institutions in Latin America, with all file, processes, and network artifacts hidden by the malware, making it virtually invisible to...
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New Linux Malware ‘Nearly Impossible to Detect’

A new malware variant attacking Linux systems that steals credentials and allows for remote access to victim machines camouflages so well that the researchers studying it say they can't conclude if it's being...
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Emotet Banking Trojan Resurfaces, Skating Past Email Security

Malware botnet Emotet has resurfaced in a more advanced form after having been taken down by joint international task force in January 2021. A prolific threat throughout the pandemic, the...

ASyncRat surpasses Dridex, TrickBot and Emotet to become dominant email threat

A review of what's changed in malware in 2022, and what hasn't, based on Adam Kujawa's talk at RSAC 2022. Earlier this year Malwarebytes released its 2022 Threat Review,...
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China-Sponsored Cyberattackers Target Networking Gear to Build Widespread Attack Infrastructure

State-sponsored cyberattackers affiliated with China are actively building out a large network of attack infrastructure by compromising targets in the public and private spheres. According to a joint alert from...
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Black Basta Ransomware Targets ESXi Servers in Active Campaign

The Black Basta ransomware emerged last month to target Windows-based systems only, but now the latest ransomware binary is going after VMware virtual machines (VMs).  The latest variant looks to encrypt VMs...
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Mandia: Keep ‘Shields Up’ to Survive the Current Escalation of Cyberattacks

RSA CONFERENCE 2022 – San Francisco – Back in the early 2000s when Mandiant was a small consulting firm in Northern Virginia, Kevin Mandia typically worked on just one incident...
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An Emerging Threat: Attacking 5G Via Network Slices

RSA CONFERENCE — San Francisco — While 5G security is not new as a topic of conversation, emerging attack vectors continue to come to the fore. Deloitte & Touche...