Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2023

Valve Enhances Steam Security With SMS Verification

The move comes after threat actors compromised developers’ accounts

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Valve Enhances Steam Security With SMS Verification

The move comes after threat actors compromised developers’ accounts

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Valve Enhances Steam Security With SMS Verification

The move comes after threat actors compromised developers’ accounts

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Millions of new 23andMe genetic data profiles leak on cybercrime forum

Graham CLULEY October 19, 2023 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial Golem, the hacker who leaked the data of one million Ashkenazi Jews from the 23andMe ancestry service earlier this month has now released 4.1 million more genetic data profiles. This time the hacker, who is known by the […]

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Valve Enhances Steam Security With SMS Verification

The move comes after threat actors compromised developers’ accounts

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Valve Enhances Steam Security With SMS Verification

The move comes after threat actors compromised developers’ accounts

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Ex-Navy IT manager jailed for selling people’s data on the dark web

A former US Navy IT manager has been sentenced to five years and five months in prison after illegally hacking a database containing personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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  • October 19, 2023

Palo Alto Networks updates Prisma Cloud with integrated cloud security

Palo Alto Networks has added new “code to cloud” intelligence capabilities to the latest version of its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), Prisma Cloud, to offer a single source of truth around application risk for developers, operations, and security teams. The latest upgrade to Prisma Cloud, dubbed Darwin release, is adding a suite of capabilities […]

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  • October 19, 2023

Sophisticated MATA Framework Strikes Eastern European Oil and Gas Companies

An updated version of a sophisticated backdoor framework called MATA has been used in attacks aimed at over a dozen Eastern European companies in the oil and gas sector and defense industry as part of a cyber espionage operation that took place between August 2022 and May 2023. “The actors behind the attack used spear-phishing mails to […]

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