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ESET APT Activity Report T2 2022

An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in T2 2022 The post ESET APT Activity Report T2 2022 appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

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  • November 14, 2022

How CloudFormation Helps Security

ACM.111 Separate your data and resources from your executable code This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The last post provided some suggestions pertaining to how CloudFormation could be improved. How to Fix CloudFormation This post explains how using CloudFormation can help you secure your AWS account. Have you ever […]

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  • November 14, 2022

New “Earth Longzhi” APT Targets Ukraine and Asian Countries with Custom Cobalt Strike Loaders

Entities located in East and Southeast Asia as well as Ukraine have been targeted at least since 2020 by a previously undocumented subgroup of APT41, a prolific Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT). Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which christened the espionage crew Earth Longzhi, said the actor’s long-running campaign can be split into two based on the toolset deployed to […]

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Unscrambling Cybersecurity Acronyms – The ABCs of MDR and XDR Security

In the second part of this blog series on Unscrambling Cybersecurity Acronyms, we covered Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Managed Endpoint Detection and Response (MEDR) solutions, which included an overview of the evolution of endpoint security solutions. In this blog, we’ll go over Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) […]

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A Digital Red Cross

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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  • November 14, 2022

How Cisco keeps its APIs secure throughout the software development process

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 […]

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Mass Email Extortion Campaign Claims Server Hack

Threat actors claim they’ll destroy victims’ reputation if they don’t pay

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  • November 14, 2022

Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign

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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What is an External Penetration Test?

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 […]

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