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Beware the Cyber Ghouls: Spooky Threats Lurking in Digital Shadows

SecureWorld News

Spooky fact : According to research from Proofpoint , in 2023, 71% of organizations experienced at least one successful phishing attack, and they remain one of the most prevalent forms of cyber threats. million, almost an increase of $1 million from 2023 , proving that these "vampires" are more active—and greedier—than ever.

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Risk reduction redefined: How compromise assessment helps strengthen cyberdefenses

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Moreover, exploitation of a public-facing application was the root cause in 42.37% of cases investigated by the Kaspersky Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) in 2023. During one project, we reviewed third-party antivirus logs and identified multiple webshell detections on the same server for several days. aspx Backdoor.ASP.WEBS HELL.SM

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – December 18, 2023 – JetBrains TeamCity Exploits Continue

eSecurity Planet

December 11, 2023 Sonar Finds Three Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Firewall pfSense Type of vulnerability: Cross-site scripting and command injection. NIST has cataloged the three vulnerabilities as CVE-2023-42325 , CVE-2023-42327 , and CVE-2023-42326. pfSense CE 2.7.0 and below and pfSense Plus 23.05.1

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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

A report from 2023 revealed that 67% of energy and utility companies faced ransomware attacks, with many incidents exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities. Regularly updating and patching systems, including antivirus software, firewalls, and SCADA networks, can mitigate this risk.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – September 4, 2023 – Attackers Hit Network Devices and More

eSecurity Planet

August 28, 2023 Ransomware Group Exploits Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability In July, Citrix released a patch for a critical remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2023-3519 ), which affected the company’s NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway products and carried a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scale.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Physical appliances provide functionality for routing wide area networks (WANs), stateful firewalls, SD-WANs, NGFW, antivirus, intrusion prevention services (IPS), and unified threat management (UTM) capabilities for local networks.

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Top 20 Cybersecurity Companies You Need to Know in 2025

eSecurity Planet

Check Point: Best for Firewalls 11 $25.34 Known for strong next-generation firewalls (NGFW) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) products, it also ranks for network security tools , zero trust , extended detection and response (XDR), IoT security , software-defined wide area network ( SD-WAN ), and secure access service edge (SASE).