A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. The Disneyland Team’s Web interface, which allows them to interact with malware victims […]
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Palo Alto Networks has announced PAN-OS 11.0 Nova, the latest version of its PAN-OS software, featuring new product updates and features. These include the Advanced WildFire cloud-delivered security service to help protect against evasive malware and the Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) service, which protects against injection attacks. The cybersecurity vendor also revealed new web proxy […]
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Hundreds of databases on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) are exposing personal identifiable information (PII), new findings from Mitiga, a cloud incident response company, show. “Leaking PII in this manner provides a potential treasure trove for threat actors – either during the reconnaissance phase of the cyber kill chain or extortionware/ransomware campaigns,” researchers Ariel
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According to a recent survey, 90% of CISOs running teams in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use a managed detection and response (MDR) service. That’s a 53% increase from last year. Why the dramatic shift to MDR? CISOs at organizations of any size, but especially SMEs, are realizing that the threat landscape and the way we […]
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ACM.113 Example demonstrating how swallowing errors can come back to bite This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. I wrote a about error handling in my series on secure programming. I explained that it is not advisable to swallow errors, of in other words catch them in some code and […]
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