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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened? A critical vulnerability, named “ regreSSHion “, was discovered in OpenSSH earlier this year. However, targeted attacks remain a viable possibility.

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Stealth Falcon’s undocumented backdoor uses Windows BITS to exfiltrate data

Security Affairs

In 2016, researchers from non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried by the Stealth Falcon. The Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) service is a built-in component of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

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Malware Evolves to Present New Threats to Developers

Security Boulevard

Trojans/Spyware. Network control measures like firewalls, secure socket layer (SSL), and data loss prevention (DLP) tools sought to outmaneuver malicious code rather than directly combat it. This technique lets attackers deliver malicious code to thousands of systems through a vector that security measures routinely ignore?—?a

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Mitigating Ransomware Attacks – Decoupling Encryption Keys From Encrypted Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While front line defense mechanisms like firewalls, anti-theft, anti-spyware, etc. Do the storage/system administrators also own and manage the encryption keys used for data-at-rest encryption? How is the separation of duties that is ensured during the encryption process implemented in individual applications?

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How to Prevent Zero Day Attacks?

Spinone

These include infiltrating malware, spyware or allowing unwanted ассеѕѕ to user information. BACK UP YOUR DATA Zеrо-dау еxрlоitѕ are a сhаllеngе for even the most vigilаnt system administrators.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

In 2022, the GReAT team tracked several threat actors leveraging SilentBreak’s toolset as well as a commercial Android spyware we named MagicKarakurt. The previous discussion covered a number of private companies that have filled the void left by NSO and have made a business of providing offensive software to their customers.

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