Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2023

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  • March 5, 2023

AWS GetCallerIdentity By My User Wrong IP and User Agent — AWS CloudShell

Saw something curious today in my logs. Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Friday Squid Blogging: We’re Almost at Flying Squid Drones

Researchers are prototyping multi-segment shapeshifter drones, which are “the precursors to flying squid-bots.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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  • March 4, 2023

Okta SAML Integration with AWS IAM Step 3: Creating SAML Roles

ACM.174 Determining permissions for an AWS Billing Administrator Role Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • March 4, 2023

Rapid7 Brings Threat Intel Data to USF Cybersecurity Lab

The Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Laboratory at the University of South Florida will provide data on real-world threats for faculty and students to use in their research.

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  • March 4, 2023

Okta SAML Integration with AWS IAM Step 4: Granting Okta Users Access to AWS Roles

ACM.175 Creating a link between Okta Groups and AWS Okta Roles Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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  • March 4, 2023

New FiXS ATM Malware Targeting Mexican Banks

A new ATM malware strain dubbed FiXS has been observed targeting Mexican banks since the start of February 2023. “The ATM malware is hidden inside another not-malicious-looking program,” Latin American cybersecurity firm Metabase Q said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Besides requiring interaction via an external keyboard, the Windows-based ATM malware is also vendor-agnostic and is

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  • March 4, 2023

Security and IT Teams No Longer Need To Pay For SaaS-Shadow IT Discovery

This past January, a SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) company named Wing Security (Wing) made waves with the launch of its free SaaS-Shadow IT discovery solution. Cloud-based companies were invited to gain insight into their employees’ SaaS usage through a completely free, self-service product that operates on a “freemium” model. If a user is impressed with […]

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CISA Warns Against Royal Ransomware in New Advisory

Malicious activity using a particular malware variant has been spotted since September 2022

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WH Smith Discloses Cyber-Attack, Company Data Theft

Employee data was accessed by the threat actors, including names, addresses, and more

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends