As many as 85 command-and-control (C2) servers have been discovered supported by the ShadowPad malware since September 2021, with infrastructure detected as recently as October 16, 2022. That’s according to VMware’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU), which studied three ShadowPad variants using TCP, UDP, and HTTP(S) protocols for C2 communications. ShadowPad, seen as a successor to PlugX, is a modular
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A 34-year-old U.K. national has been arraigned in the U.S. for operating a dark web marketplace called The Real Deal that specialized in the sales of hacking tools and stolen login credentials. Daniel Kaye, who went by a litany of pseudonyms Popopret, Bestbuy, UserL0ser, and Spdrman, has been charged with five counts of access device fraud and […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsLinkedIn says it is beefing up its security in an attempt to better protect its userbase from fraudulent activity such as profiles that use AI-generated deepfake photos, and messages that may contain unwanted or harmful content. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsJust training people periodically using generic content won’t help them or your organization reduce the risk of security threats, says Egress. The post How to improve security awareness and training for your employees appeared first on TechRepublic.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsIt affected all Apple devices, including Macs, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
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Automobile, Energy, Media, Ransomware?When thinking about verticals, one may not instantly think of cyber-criminality. Yet, every move made by governments, clients, and private contractors screams toward normalizing those menaces as a new vertical. Ransomware has every trait of the classical economical vertical. A thriving ecosystem of insurers, negotiators, software providers, and managed
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsThe social media company made the announcement in a blog post on Tuesday
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsGraham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Kolide. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Do you know the old thought experiment about the AI designed to make paper clips that quickly decides that it will have to eliminate all the humans to maximize paper clips? Many security […]
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Hybrid Workforce is here to stay Just a few years ago when the topic of supporting offsite workers arose, some of the key conversation topics were related to purchase, logistics, deployment, maintenance and similar issues. The discussions back then were more like “special cases” vs. today’s environment where supporting workers offsite (now known as the […]
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