Cyber Extortion Growing Exponentially in Africa, Middle East and China, Finds Orange
Businesses are getting better at preventing cyber incidents, Orange Cybedefense’s head of Security Research Center said
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- December 5, 2022
Azure Security
Posts on Azure Security by Teri Radichel This is a compilation of my posts on Azure Security. Although I teach Azure Security classes, I prefer to use AWS most of the time when I’m doing security assessments and penetration testing. I have a lot more posts on AWS Security for that reason. But right now I’m […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends‘Team Mysterious Bangladesh’ Hackers Target Indian Education Entity
The hackers allegedly stole PII, including names, Aadhar numbers and IFSC codes
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsGoogle Releases Chrome Emergency Fix For Ninth Zero-Day This Year
The flaw relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine
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- December 5, 2022
When Being Attractive Gets Risky – How Does Your Attack Surface Look to an Attacker?
In the era of digitization and ever-changing business needs, the production environment has become a living organism. Multiple functions and teams within an organization can ultimately impact the way an attacker sees the organization’s assets, or in other words, the external attack surface. This dramatically increases the need to define an exposure management strategy. To […]
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- December 5, 2022
New BMC Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Affect Servers from Dozens of Manufacturers
Three different security flaws have been disclosed in American Megatrends (AMI) MegaRAC Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) software that could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable servers. “The impact of exploiting these vulnerabilities include remote control of compromised servers, remote deployment of malware, ransomware and firmware implants, and server physical damage (bricking),”
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsManufacturers Struggle to Manage Cyber-Threats from New Tech Deployments
42% of UK manufacturers have been a victim of cybercrime in the past 12 months, according to new research
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- December 5, 2022
CAPTCHA
This is an actual CAPTCHA I was shown when trying to log into PayPal. As an actual human and not a bot, I had no idea how to answer. Is this a joke? (Seems not.) Is it a Magritte-like existential question? (It’s not a bicycle. It’s a drawing of a bicycle. Actually, it’s a photograph […]
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- December 5, 2022
Russian Courts Targeted by New CryWiper Data Wiper Malware Posing as Ransomware
A new data wiper malware called CryWiper has been found targeting Russian government agencies, including mayor’s offices and courts. “Although it disguises itself as a ransomware and extorts money from the victim for ‘decrypting’ data, [it] does not actually encrypt, but purposefully destroys data in the affected system,” Kaspersky researchers Fedor Sinitsyn and Janis Zinchenko said in a
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