Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: August 2023

Smashing Security podcast #337: The DEA’s crypto calamity, and scammers’ blue tick bonanza

Seized cryptocurrency is stolen from the DEA, blue-ticks are being exploited, a bath full of dollar bills, the comfort offered by an ostrich’s head, and how Graham is refusing to call Twitter “X”. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • August 30, 2023

Programmatic Governance in AWS

Multicloud.7 Using CloudFormation, Accounts, OUs, and Service Control Policies for governance on AWS Continue reading on Cloud Security »

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • August 30, 2023

6 Ways AI Can Revolutionize Digital Forensics

Artificial intelligence tools can automate the analysis of logs, video, and other important but tedious aspects of investigations.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • August 30, 2023

FBI Dismantles QakBot Malware, Frees 700,000 Computers, Seizes $8.6 Million

A coordinated law enforcement effort codenamed Operation Duck Hunt has felled QakBot, a notorious Windows malware family that’s estimated to have compromised over 700,000 computers globally and facilitated financial fraud as well as ransomware. To that end, the U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) said the malware is “being deleted from victim computers, preventing it from doing any more harm,” adding

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
  • by
  • August 30, 2023

Critical Vulnerability Alert: VMware Aria Operations Networks at Risk from Remote Attacks

VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution. The most severe of the flaws is CVE-2023-34039 (CVSS score: 9.8), which relates to a case of authentication bypass arising as a result of a lack of […]

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends