Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: July 2023

Scam Job Offers Target Uni Students

Threat actors exploit high cost of living

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NCA: Nation States Using Cybercrime Groups as Proxies

Crime agency chief warns of surging online threat

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  • July 19, 2023

U.S. Government Blacklists Cytrox and Intellexa Spyware Vendors for Cyber Espionage

The U.S. government on Tuesday added two foreign commercial spyware vendors, Cytrox and Intellexa, to an economic blocklist for weaponizing cyber exploits to gain unauthorized access to devices and “threatening the privacy and security of individuals and organizations worldwide.” This includes the companies’ corporate holdings in Hungary (Cytrox Holdings Crt), North Macedonia (Cytrox AD), Greece

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  • July 19, 2023

Why and how CISOs should work with lawyers to address regulatory burdens

With regulatory scrutiny increasing, some CISOs are partnering with their organization’s legal counsel, seeking expert input to guide their compliance and risk minimization efforts. Chiara Portner, cybersecurity attorney with Hopkins & Carley, says lawyers play a crucial role in advising on risks and finding ways to mitigate them. “With the increasing regulatory scrutiny and burden, […]

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  • July 19, 2023

Zero-Day Attacks Exploited Critical Vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway

Citrix is alerting users of a critical security flaw in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8), the issue relates to a case of code injection that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. It impacts the following versions – NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway […]

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  • July 19, 2023

Another Medium Post Not Showing up in Google Search Results

Another Medium SEO issue Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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  • July 19, 2023

Security Best Practices for GitHub Actions

ACM.256 Options for Hardening GitHub Actions According to GitHub Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • July 19, 2023

Pernicious Rootkits Pose Growing Blight On Threat Landscape

Attackers show renewed relentlessness in exploiting OS vulnerabilities that also circumvent defense and detection measures.

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  • July 19, 2023

Google Cloud Build Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation, Code Tampering

Google’s fix to the Bad.Build flaw only partially addresses the issue, say security researchers who discovered it.

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