Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: October 2024

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  • October 23, 2024

New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Variants Emerge with Advanced Tactics to Evade Detection

New variants of a banking malware called Grandoreiro have been found to adopt new tactics in an effort to bypass anti-fraud measures, indicating that the malicious software is continuing to be actively developed despite law enforcement efforts to crack down on the operation. “Only part of this gang was arrested: the remaining operators behind Grandoreiro […]

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  • October 23, 2024

Permiso State of Identity Security 2024: A Shake-up in Identity Security Is Looming Large

Identity security is front, and center given all the recent breaches that include Microsoft, Okta, Cloudflare and Snowflake to name a few. Organizations are starting to realize that a shake-up is needed in terms of the way we approach identity security both from a strategic but also a technology vantage point.  Identity security is more […]

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  • October 23, 2024

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094)

A high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38094 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as a deserialization vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could result in remote code […]

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  • October 23, 2024

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Not long ago, the ability to digitally track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a dangerous power that should remain only within the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone […]

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  • October 23, 2024

Researchers Reveal ‘Deceptive Delight’ Method to Jailbreak AI Models

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new adversarial technique that could be used to jailbreak large language models (LLMs) during the course of an interactive conversation by sneaking in an undesirable instruction between benign ones. The approach has been codenamed Deceptive Delight by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which described it as both simple […]

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  • October 23, 2024

Think You’re Secure? 49% of Enterprises Underestimate SaaS Risks

It may come as a surprise to learn that 34% of security practitioners are in the dark about how many SaaS applications are deployed in their organizations. And it’s no wonder—the recent AppOmni 2024 State of SaaS Security Report reveals that only 15% of organizations centralize SaaS security within their cybersecurity teams. These statistics not […]

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  • October 23, 2024

Ransomware Gangs Use LockBit’s Fame to Intimidate Victims in Latest Attacks

Threat actors have been observed abusing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Transfer Acceleration feature as part of ransomware attacks designed to exfiltrate victim data and upload them to S3 buckets under their control. “Attempts were made to disguise the Golang ransomware as the notorious LockBit ransomware,” Trend Micro researchers Jaromir Horejsi and Nitesh Surana said. […]

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The Cyber Heist of the Century

The Cyber Heist of the Century How “Business Email Compromise” (BEC) Cost Americans $2.9 Billion in 2023, And How You Can Protect Your Business If George Clooney and Brad Pitt were pulling off cyber heists instead of casino jobs, their scheme wouldn’t involve suave disguises or fast cars—it’d be Business Email Compromise (BEC). In 2023, […]

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  • October 22, 2024

Gophish Framework Used in Phishing Campaigns to Deploy Remote Access Trojans

Russian-speaking users have become the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages an open-source phishing toolkit called Gophish to deliver DarkCrystal RAT (aka DCRat) and a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed PowerRAT. “The campaign involves modular infection chains that are either Maldoc or HTML-based infections and require the victim’s intervention to trigger the […]

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