US: Iranian Hackers Breached Government with Log4Shell
Threat actors installed crypto-miner and achieved persistence
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsReducing Friction in SecureX Orchestration
Since releasing SecureX orchestration, we’ve regularly published two types of content for our customers to import and use: atomic actions and workflows. Atomic actions are small, re-usable functions that allow you to do simple things like isolating an endpoint in Cisco Secure Endpoint. Workflows are more complex combinations of activities, often made up of multiple […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsCybersecurity Industry Must Maintain Public Faith in Technology, Says NCSC Founder
The NCSC’s founding CEO, Ciaran Martin, explains why the cyber industry is now a public good
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- November 17, 2022
Black Friday and retail season – watch out for PayPal “money request” scams
Don’t let a keen eye for bargains lead you into risky online behaviour…
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- November 17, 2022
Chinese Hackers Using 42,000 Imposter Domains in Massive Phishing Attack Campaign
A China-based financially motivated group is leveraging the trust associated with popular international brands to orchestrate a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. The threat actor, dubbed Fangxiao by Cyjax, is said to have registered over 42,000 imposter domains, with initial activity observed in 2017. “It targets businesses in multiple verticals including retail, […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsFailures in Twitter’s Two-Factor Authentication System
Twitter is having intermittent problems with its two-factor authentication system: Not all users are having problems receiving SMS authentication codes, and those who rely on an authenticator app or physical authentication token to secure their Twitter account may not have reason to test the mechanism. But users have been self-reporting issues on Twitter since the […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsPCI Council Launches Flexible Mobile Payments Standard
Announcement recognizes growing volume of smartphone payments
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsMore Than Half of Black Friday Spam Emails Are Scams
New research analyzes email scam techniques in the build-up to this year’s Black Friday
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- November 17, 2022
User-Specific Security Group for Remote Access
ACM.114 Create a security group with a specific user’s IP address This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. In the last post I explained how failure to report errors causes systems and software to break. Why You Should Not Swallow Errors Now we’re going to move on to deploying a user-specific VM on AWS. […]
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