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Crooks target Ukraine’s IT Army with a tainted DDoS tool

Security Affairs

Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a malware campaign targeting Ukraine’s IT Army , threat actors are using infostealer malware mimicking a DDoS tool called the “Liberator.” Liberator is advertised as a DDoS tool to launch attacks against “Russian propaganda websites.” ” continues the report.

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GUEST ESSAY: Lessons learned in 2021 as cloud services, mobility and cybersecurity collided

The Last Watchdog

To combat this, businesses who are agile in adopting digital transformation strategies reaped the benefits: from better security hygiene to reduce the risk of a data breach to improved productivity that ultimately yields higher revenue. Here are a few important trends that you should consider for 2022: Single vendor SASE play.

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Researchers identify 223 vulnerabilities used in recent ransomware attacks

SC Magazine

Srinivas Mukkamala, CEO and co-founder of RiskSense, told SC Media that their research indicates this broadened attack surface is being driven by both short-term trends, like COVID-19 pushing more businesses online, as well as broader developments in digital transformation and cloud adoption throughout industry.

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Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022

SecureList

The latter confirmed that a threat actor got in through a remote-management network exploiting a poorly configured VPN, and ultimately delivered destructive payloads, affecting tens of thousands of KA-SAT modems. Taking sides: professional ransomware groups, hacktivists, and DDoS attacks.

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Think of remote access as a business continuity issue

SC Magazine

They understood the limitations of virtual private networks (VPNs), yet not one IT leader had the appetite or intention of replacing their legacy access approach. They often went around the VPN, for example, using convenient but unsanctioned and insecure cloud and web apps instead of corporate-sanctioned and secured applications.

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Combatting ransomware: a holistic approach

IT Security Guru

A firewall or a VPN Gateway, for example, may provide information, which could be used to identify potential attack vectors. Digital transformation and the move to remote work has fundamentally changed the way modern businesses operate. Even security defences themselves can provide unintended insights. Consider Zero Trust.

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These are the 15 Top Cyber Threats Now

SecureWorld News

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) continues to be one of the riskiest moves by organizations: "Unfortunately, many organisations still use RDP instead of the more secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) for remote access. Web-based Attacks. Web Application Attacks. Identity Theft. Data Breach.