Lacework

JULY 15, 2022

This blog takes a look at the latter technique in recent cryptojacking activity from a group known as WatchDog. Previous blogs about Watchdog attacks report targeting of Chinese network ranges. This includes WatchDog steg payloads from this blog. General trends include using Discord distributed malware and ransomware.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

MoTW is a security feature used to tag files downloaded from the internet and prevent them from performing certain actions. Though it was not credited to any researcher in particular, researchers at HP observed the Magniber ransomware group exploiting this vulnerability in the wild. Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 25, 2021

This is the first of a two-part blog series, breaking down the cost of dealing with a cybersecurity incident versus the cost of investing to prevent an incident. According to Unit 42’s 2020 Incident Response & Data Breach Report , ransomware was the most common compromise method of 2019. CCPA fines are just as intimidating as GDPR.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

They could also send you insider details about service providers like your health-insurance company, so they can launch a ransomware attack. Don’t tag images. They can also search on Twitter for tags like “#LifeAtCompanyX” to get intel on you or your business. And so on it goes. Learn what you need to know to do the job.

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Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 13, 2020

These analysts are called Unit 42: the global threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks that is renowned for their work to hunt, catch and tag threats. A QBot remote access trojan, known for facilitating ransomware infections of entire networks, was attempting to execute on a server at a Massachusetts-based software company.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 19, 2021

When new workloads are spun up, they can be automatically be protected with their security policies based on their native infrastructure tags and label. In SDN environments, the VM-Series automates threat response by notifying VMware NSX or Nutanix Flow of the existence of an infected workload, which NSX then tags.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Now, threat actors often use these Trojans to deliver other types of malware to victims’ devices, like ransomware. you can control which alerts and incidents users can access based on endpoint and endpoint group tags. Then, you can flexibly manage access to alerts and incidents based on the tags you’ve defined. Cortex XDR 3.5

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Tenable

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Tenable Security Response Team covered the advisory in-depth in its blog “ AA23-215A: 2022's Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities. ” That’s the main finding from IBM’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023,” which pegged the price tag at a global average of $4.45 Check out the aptly titled blog “What is a Zero Trust Architecture?”

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Kaseya

APRIL 15, 2020

Sophisticated and Targeted Ransomware Attacks. Ransomware attacks have been a major concern for businesses over the last couple of years. The reason why ransomware has persisted for so long is the relative simplicity with which an attacker can achieve devastating effects.

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