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  • February 13, 2023

New ESXiArgs Ransomware Variant Emerges After CISA Releases Decryptor Tool

After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data. The emergence of the new variant was reported by a system administrator on an online forum, where another participant stated that […]

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  • February 13, 2023

Enigma, Vector, and TgToxic: The New Threats to Cryptocurrency Users

Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on compromised hosts. The attackers “use several highly obfuscated and under-development custom loaders in order to infect those involved in the cryptocurrency industry with Enigma stealer,” Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar

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  • February 13, 2023

Risk Associated with the Root User for a New AWS Organizations Account

ACM.153 Logging into a new account created for an organization and adding MFA Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code. In my last post I showed you how you can automate the creation of an AWS organization. Automated AWS Organization Creation I’ll add that to my GitHub repository in a bit and add to […]

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  • February 13, 2023

Risk Associated With Default AWS Service-Linked Roles

ACM.154 Taking a look at the roles created by Amazon in a new AWS account Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code. I previously showed you how to set up AWS Organizations, create a new Organizational Unit, and a new AWS account. In the last post, we took at look at the root user […]

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Why You Need to Watch Out When Using Public Wi-Fi

If you’re like most people, you like to stay connected whether you are traveling or just on the go. That’s why it can be tempting to connect to free, public Wi-Fi networks, but you should know that these networks could open you up to some serious risks. Public Wi-Fi networks often lack a security measure […]

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  • February 13, 2023

Medium Error — 502 Bad Gateway — cloudflare

Just now clicked on a link to a post and half of it was missing. I clicked around a bit more and got a 500 error on Medium, followed by… Continue reading on Bugs That Bite »

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Risk Associated With The Role Created In New AWS Organizations Accounts

ACM.155 Taking a look at the OrganizationAccountAccessRole Continue reading on Cloud Security »

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy

I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article: Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their native DEXs via axlUSDC. So there. 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 […]

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Is a Blockchain Thingy

I had no idea—until I read this incredibly jargon-filled article: Squid is a cross-chain liquidity and messaging router that swaps across multiple chains and their native DEXs via axlUSDC. So there. 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 […]

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