The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical network. The emblem wouldn’t provide technical cybersecurity protection to hospitals, Red Cross infrastructure or other medical providers, but it would signal to hackers that a cyberattack on those protected […]
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Software developers know not to reinvent the wheel. So, they lean on reusable micro-services – and their corresponding application programming interfaces (APIs) – as building blocks for application components. “Developers want to focus on the added value they can bring instead of rebuilding things that have great solutions out there already,” says Grace Francisco, vice president […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThreat actors claim they’ll destroy victims’ reputation if they don’t pay
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A new malicious campaign has compromised over 15,000 WordPress websites in an attempt to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A portals. “These malicious redirects appear to be designed to increase the authority of the attacker’s sites for search engines,” Sucuri researcher Ben Martin said in a report published last week, calling it a “clever black hat SEO trick.” The search […]
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A penetration test (also known as a pentest) is a security assessment that simulates the activities of real-world attackers to identify security holes in your IT systems or applications. The aim of the test is to understand what vulnerabilities you have, how they could be exploited, and what the impact would be if an attacker […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsExecutive summary: Fortinet’s newest vulnerability, CVE-2022-40684, allowing for authentication bypass to manipulate admin SSH keys, unauthorized downloading of configuration files, and creating of super admin accounts, is put a big target on the back’s of unpatched and exposed Fortinet devices. An AT&T Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) customer was involved in a true positive […]
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Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSomnia malware hijacks Telegram and VPN accounts
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A newly discovered evasive malware leverages the Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic protocol to gain entry into targeted systems with the goal of mining cryptocurrency and carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Dubbed KmsdBot by the Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), the Golang-based malware has been found targeting a variety of companies ranging from gaming to
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