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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware?

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Defenders Be Prepared: Cyberattacks Surge Against Linux Amid Cloud Migration

Dark Reading

Ransomware in particular poses a major threat, but security vendors say there has been an increase in Linux-targeted cryptojacking, malware, and vulnerability exploits as well, and defenders need to be ready.

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

To accelerate cloud migration, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud guaranteed that the hosted IT infrastructure they sought to rent to enterprises would be security-hardened – at least on their end. Wave after wave of successful exploits took full advantage of the misconfigurations spinning out of cloud migration.

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Fifteen Best Practices to Navigate the Data Sovereignty Waters

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Understand the Nature of Data in Cloud Migration As noted, to meet data sovereignty requirements, organizations will often have to set up cloud data centers in multiple jurisdictions and, as such, carry out cloud migration.

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Fifteen Best Practices to Navigate the Data Sovereignty Waters

Security Boulevard

Understand the Nature of Data in Cloud Migration As noted, to meet data sovereignty requirements, organizations will often have to set up cloud data centers in multiple jurisdictions and, as such, carry out cloud migration.

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MY TAKE: A few reasons to believe RSAC 2023’s ‘stronger together’ theme is gaining traction

The Last Watchdog

The trick in today’s operating environment is how to do this well with cloud migration accelerating. It’s easier than ever for malicious hackers to get deep access, steal data, spread ransomware, disrupt infrastructure and attain long run unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 474 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Ticketmaster confirms data breach impacting 560 million customers Critical Apache Log4j2 flaw still threatens global finance Crooks stole more than $300M worth of Bitcoin from the exchange DMM Bitcoin ShinyHunters is selling data of 30 million Santander customers Over 600,000 SOHO routers were destroyed by Chalubo malware in 72 hours LilacSquid APT (..)