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Simplify Your Operational Resilience Programs

Simplify Your Operational Resilience Programs The foundation of any successful business is its ability to remain robust and resilient, no matter the challenges it encounters. Operational resilience is the backbone that ensures this ability, encompassing everything from IT systems to critical business functions. The goal is clear: no matter the disruption, businesses must continue to […]

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Simplify Your NIST-Based Risk Assessment

Simplify Your NIST-Based Risk Assessment Navigating the intricate world of cybersecurity can often seem like trying to find your way through a maze. For those involved in risk management, the process can be daunting. But fear not, for tools like the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidelines offer a structured approach to make […]

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  • December 12, 2023

New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack

Interesting attack based on malicious pre-OS logo images: LogoFAIL is a constellation of two dozen newly discovered vulnerabilities that have lurked for years, if not decades, in Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaces responsible for booting modern devices that run Windows or Linux…. The vulnerabilities are the subject of a coordinated mass disclosure released Wednesday. The participating […]

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  • December 12, 2023

Non-Human Access is the Path of Least Resistance: A 2023 Recap

2023 has seen its fair share of cyber attacks, however there’s one attack vector that proves to be more prominent than others – non-human access. With 11 high-profile attacks in 13 months and an ever-growing ungoverned attack surface, non-human identities are the new perimeter, and 2023 is only the beginning. Why non-human access is a […]

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  • December 12, 2023

New MrAnon Stealer Malware Targeting German Users via Booking-Themed Scam

A phishing campaign has been observed delivering an information stealer malware called MrAnon Stealer to unsuspecting victims via seemingly benign booking-themed PDF lures. “This malware is a Python-based information stealer compressed with cx-Freeze to evade detection,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. “MrAnon Stealer steals its victims’ credentials, system information, browser sessions, and cryptocurrency […]

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  • December 12, 2023

Apple Releases Security Updates to Patch Critical iOS and macOS Security Flaws

Apple on Monday released security patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Safari web browser to address multiple security flaws, in addition to backporting fixes for two recently disclosed zero-days to older devices. This includes updates for 12 security vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS spanning AVEVideoEncoder, ExtensionKit, Find My, ImageIO, Kernel, Safari Private Browsing, […]

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  • December 12, 2023

New Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Apache Struts 2 – Patch Now

Apache has released a security advisory warning of a critical security flaw in the Struts 2 open-source web application framework that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-50164, the vulnerability is rooted in a flawed “file upload logic” that could enable unauthorized path traversal and could be exploited under the circumstances to upload […]

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  • December 11, 2023

Researchers Unmask Sandman APT’s Hidden Link to China-Based KEYPLUG Backdoor

Tactical and targeting overlaps have been discovered between the enigmatic advanced persistent threat (APT) called Sandman and a China-based threat cluster that’s known to use a backdoor referred to as KEYPLUG. The assessment comes jointly from SentinelOne, PwC, and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team based on the fact that the adversary’s Lua-based malware LuaDream and […]

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  • December 11, 2023

Lazarus Group Using Log4j Exploits to Deploy Remote Access Trojans

The notorious North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new global campaign that involves the opportunistic exploitation of security flaws in Log4j to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans (RATs) on compromised hosts. Cisco Talos is tracking the activity under the name Operation Blacksmith, noting the use of […]

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