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The evolution of ransomware in 2019: attackers think bigger, go deeper and grow more advanced

Security Affairs

The findings come as highlights of Group-IB whitepaper titled “ Ransomware Uncovered: Attackers’ Latest Methods ,” closely examining the evolution of the ransomware operators’ strategies over the past year, issued today. More recommendations can be found in the relevant section of the whitepaper. . Big Game Hunting. How it all began.

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Evolving Identity: Why Legacy IAM May Not Be Fit for Purpose

CyberSecurity Insiders

As an information security professional, you are aware that identity management is a very important part of the security landscape. To the modern information security practitioner, it must do both at the same time. Quite often, the information security professional has experienced this frustration too.

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Researchers found flaws in MEGA that allowed to decrypt of user data

Security Affairs

“Additionally, the integrity of user data is damaged to the extent that an attacker can insert malicious files of their choice which pass all authenticity checks of the client,” reads the paper published by ETH Zurich’s researchers.

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Russia-linked Cozy Bear uses evasive techniques to target Microsoft 365 users

Security Affairs

. “This is a critical log source to determine if a threat actor is accessing a particular mailbox, as well as to determine the scope of exposure,” warns Mandiant in an APT 29 whitepaper. ” The researchers highlighted the exceptional operational security and evasion tactics adopted by APT29.

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A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web

Google Security

Posted by Stephen Röttger and Artur Janc, Information Security Engineers Three years ago, Spectre changed the way we think about security boundaries on the web. Cross-Origin Embedder Policy (COEP) ensures that any authenticated resources requested by the application have explicitly opted in to being loaded.

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To Achieve Zero Trust Security, Trust The Human Element

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As such, this year’s World Password Day is in fact a timely reminder for businesses to drop passwords forever, and instead rollout access management solutions such as passwordless authentication. In our previous blogs we have discussed the many challenges that organizations face as they are seeking to embrace the Zero Trust security model.