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FBI and CISA Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Royal Ransomware Group

Tenable

Toward the end of 2022, the Royal ransomware group surged to the top of the monthly charts to overtake LockBit in November 2022, likely due to a sharp rise in attacks against organizations ahead of the holidays. Once communication has been established with the C2s, the Royal actors download several tools.

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Leaky Apps – How Banning Them Builds App Security

Ivanti

Insider threats The risk from insider threats is a major concern in app security, due to the difficulty of detecting malicious insiders who already have legitimate access to systems and data. On top of malicious software, apps can provide unauthorized access to your system, allowing attackers to gain access and exploit your data.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

Uncovering the domestic and foreign threats to critical infrastructure Critical infrastructure refers to the physical and virtual systems and assets so vital to our society that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic stability, public health, or safety.

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5 Unique Challenges for AI in Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks

Looking at a random set of logs in most cybersecurity logging systems will most likely result in zero labels. Nobody labeled a user downloading a document as malicious or benign; nobody provided data if a login was legitimate or not. This is unique to cybersecurity. Visual representation of the concept drift.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls on Software Makers To Use Memory Safe Languages, as OpenSSF Issues Secure Software Principles

Tenable

Plus, malware used in fake browser-update attacks ballooned in Q3. Specifically, the program now offers CISA’s “ Protective Domain Name System (DNS) Resolver ” service, which is designed to help prevent systems from connecting to malicious domains. And much more! 1 - CISA: Adopt memory safe programming languages, pronto!

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More on the PAN-OS CVE-2024-3400

Palo Alto Networks

Further, we explored workarounds and threat prevention signatures and determined the exact combination of configurations that made the system vulnerable to a compromise. The second bug (trusting that the files were system-generated) used the filenames as part of a command. How Was It Exploited?

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

Hackers take advantage of out-of-date systems, software, and known security issues. However, outdated operating systems can be more vulnerable to security risks because they may lack the latest security updates and patches, serving as an entry point for hackers to infiltrate networks.

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