Tenable

MAY 18, 2023

The advisory details the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with the group and its corresponding malware. This technique was pioneered by the Maze ransomware group in 2019, a phenomenon we discuss in our Ransomware Ecosystem report. and Australia.

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Groups Systems Review Malware Technical Review 98

Tenable

APRIL 8, 2021

Recent research has borne out that the odds of a small or medium-sized business (SMB) undergoing a cyberattack or data breach are more than 50-50: About 66% of SMBs experienced at least one cyberattack in 2019. The biggest reason why patch management isn't a cure-all is simple: It cannot cover all of your network's entry points.

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SMB Malware Systems Review VOIP 101

Tenable

MARCH 5, 2021

In part one of our series on cyber hygiene, we explore the fundamentals that can help businesses understand where they're vulnerable and how to protect their networks from cyberattacks and breaches. The term "vulnerability" isn't synonymous with "malware" or "virus”: It simply means any weakness within your network that can be exploited.

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Weak Development Team Malware Firewall Software Review 99

Tenable

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The simplest accurate description is "any weakness in your network that can be exploited." A vulnerability could also be a host on the network that lacks modern protections like next-generation firewalls or anti-malware features. computers, mobile devices or operational technology such as network switches and control systems).

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Tenable

MAY 28, 2020

during 2019 — 1,115 out of 1,473 — stemmed from hacking, intrusion or unauthorized access, exposing more than 157 million sensitive records. There's also the interruption of business to consider, as well as damage to the network and IT infrastructure — both of which can seriously hurt your organization's financial bottom line.

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Malware Systems Review Healthcare Software Review 101

Linux Academy

APRIL 30, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. The post What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019 appeared first on Linux Academy Blog. Linux Study Group in May.

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Linux AWS Big Data Course 113

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

. “When I changed my criteria to finding people who were a fit, the process was really quick,” says Bamberger, who initially raised a $500,000 friends and family round in 2019 followed by a $1.5 Locked out of Mars : Hackers found a way to lock out Mars Stealer malware from their own servers , Zack writes. Big Tech Inc.

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Tenable

JANUARY 27, 2023

Background On January 27, ESET Research has published a thread on Twitter discussing its analysis of a new wiper malware used in a cyberattack in Ukraine. This new malware, dubbed "SwiftSlicer", was deployed in the target environment using Active Directory (AD) Group Policy. The #SwiftSlicer wiper is written in Go programing language.

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Policies Groups Malware Windows 52

Tenable

MARCH 24, 2022

Leaked internal chats between Conti ransomware group members offer a unique glimpse into its inner workings and provide valuable insights, including details on over 30 vulnerabilities used by the group and its affiliates, as well as specifics about its processes after infiltrating a network, like how it targets Active Directory.

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Windows Groups Healthcare Report 101

Tenable

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Get the latest on the anniversary of the Log4j crisis; OWASP’s top CI/CD risks; a surge of infostealer malware; the fund transfer fraud — business email compromise connection; and more! . 3 - Attackers boost use of infostealer malware. Infostealers Malware Advertisements and Pricing from July to October 2022.

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Software Review SMB Malware Development Team Review 52

Kaseya

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In fact, the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found that 43 percent of security breaches affect small businesses — that’s a pretty big number. Taking another stat from the Verizon 2019 DBIR, 15 percent of breaches were the result of “misuse by authorized users.” million, on average.

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Malware SMB Budget Firewall 91

Firemon

MARCH 12, 2019

Perhaps one of the biggest news items was the United States’ National Security Agency’s release of Ghidra – a reverse engineering malware tool. The post That’s a Wrap – RSA 2019 appeared first on FireMon. Perhaps most interesting of all, the NSA also announced it was going to open source the tool. Until next year….

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Weak Development Team IoT Open Source Malware 40

Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On December 22, 2022, Gartner named Palo Alto Networks a Leader for the eleventh consecutive time in its Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls for 2022. Read The Total Economic Impact™ of Palo Alto Networks for Network Security to learn how you can maximize your ROI with our network security platform.

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Firewall IoT Malware SMB 70

Palo Alto Networks

MARCH 17, 2021

The highest ransomware demand we observed surged to $30 million in 2020 (from $15 million in 2019). In fact, our review of cases handled last year found that the average paid ransom nearly tripled to $312,493 (from $115,123 in 2019). That’s a staggering increase from 2016, when the majority of transactions were between $200 and $500.

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Technical Review Systems Review Report Malware 98

Tenable

MARCH 30, 2020

In addition to helping employees avoid falling prey to the plethora of coronavirus-related malware campaigns and scams currently circulating, organizations would do well to closely monitor the tools being used to enable a suddenly remote workforce. The remote environment: Windows Remote Desktop Protocol, web browsers and home networks.

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LAN Malware Windows Systems Administration 62

Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

With Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks has delivered unmatched detection capabilities that run on high-fidelity integrated data from endpoint, network and cloud data sources. Analysts can click on a link in the Cortex XDR “Causality” window to examine process, timeline and network information gathered by WildFire.

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Malware Analysis Analytics Network 81

Ivanti

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The quickest method to check for the presence of malware on your iPhone, iPad or macOS devices is to look for the presence of an unknown configuration profile within the Settings > General > VPN & Device Management settings. iOS and iPadOS Exploits. Email server and Exchange settings. LDAP directory service settings.

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Malware Backup Artificial Inteligence Mobile 78

TechTalk

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Malware […]. It also traditionally brings some tumultuous weather events such as hurricanes, and this September was no exception. On the IT security front, there was plenty of turbulence as well.

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Malware Network 47

Tenable

AUGUST 3, 2023

Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office products are frequently used by threat actors to gain a foothold into a target network by attaching malicious documents to phishing or spear phishing emails. CVE Description CVSSv3 VPR CVE-2019-0708 Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services RCE (BlueKeep) 9.8

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Authentication Data Center Software Review Windows 52

Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 17, 2020

As Unit 42 – the threat research arm of Palo Alto Networks – notes, these growing threats include Graboid: First-Ever Cryptojacking Worm and other new vulnerabilities that could be exploited over the network. How Palo Alto Networks addresses critical container security requirements. Incidents like this are just the beginning.

Firewall 89

Firewall Malware Network Policies 89

Kaseya

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

They will protect their customers from failures of their network, storage, servers, and application, but the customer is responsible for protecting their data from user and admin failures as well as from cybersecurity attacks. SaaS providers practice a “shared responsibility” model when it comes to data protection.

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Applications Backup Data Malware 120

Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

That viruses and malware are Windows problems is a misnomer that is often propagated through the Linux community and it’s an easy one to believe until you start noticing strange behavior on your system. The post What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019 appeared first on Linux Academy. Linux Study Group in May.

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Linux AWS Big Data Course 60

Kaseya

JUNE 24, 2019

In 2017, 50,000 cyber-attacks were targeted at IoT devices, an increase of 600 percent from 2016 and the number of IoT-driven malware attacks surpassed 121,000 in 2018. The 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) shows that 34 percent of breaches involve internal actors. Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA).

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Backup Authentication Disaster Recovery Malware 87

Tenable

MARCH 12, 2020

Malware and phishing campaigns use global interest in the novel coronavirus to capitalize on fear and uncertainty around the pandemic. In December 2019, reports of an outbreak of a new virus and disease, dubbed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO), began to emerge. Coronavirus-themed malware campaigns. Background.

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Malware Research Windows Report 111

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

SenseOn , which employs cloud-based, AI powered techniques for its so-called “triangulation” approach to the challenge of cybersecurity covering endpoints, networks and microservices, has picked up $20 million. million in a seed round of funding in 2019. Early-stage benchmarks for young cybersecurity companies.

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Automotive Microservices Government Compliance 187

Palo Alto Networks

MAY 19, 2020

Standards development organisations have a key role to play to ensure networks, services and applications are secure. But as the 5G digital environment opens the door for diverse players beyond traditional cellular networks that are looking to revolutionise their ecosystem through 5G, security often falls short.

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IoT Malware Healthcare Network 53

Tenable

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) I-240W-Q Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) routers are designed to replace standard copper networks. CVE-2019-3917: By sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the device, a remote attacker could partially disable the firewall and expose a Telnet service to external access. Get more information.

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Research Authentication Firewall Malware 53

AlienVault

MARCH 6, 2019

Termite is a tool used to connect together chains of machines on a network. This means an attacker can use a long chain of desktop, mobile and IoT devices to be able to connect through networks and DMZs. We were surprised to find EarthWorm also packed into malware - presumably to provide packet relay functionality.

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Internet Malware IoT Linux 40

Tenable

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Attackers have a cornucopia of options from which to choose to gain that first step into target networks. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and virtual private network (VPN) solutions are consistently two of the top targets. Specifically, CISA has warned of the TrickBot malware and BlackMatter ransomware abusing SMB.

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SMB Software Review Minimum Viable Product Systems Review 98

Kaseya

APRIL 20, 2020

This leaves companies to fend for themselves when it comes to updating these so-called third-party applications, web browsers and security solutions, like antivirus, anti-malware and more. According to an article on DarkReading , “Eight out of the 10 most exploited vulnerabilities in 2019, in fact, impacted Microsoft products.

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Software Review Windows Systems Review Malware 85

Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Responsible organizations everywhere want to protect their networks and the personal data their users entrust to them. Encryption is increasingly used to secure not just sensitive or private information but practically all traffic traversing enterprise networks. Even legitimate websites that use SSL can be infected with malware.

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Compliance Malware Network Firewall 41

Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 7, 2019

Palo Alto Networks achieved a “Recommended” rating in the 2019 NSS Labs Breach Prevention Systems (BPS) test, the highest rating NSS Labs offers. The test included our Next-Generation Firewall with Threat Prevention , WildFire malware analysis service, and Traps endpoint protection and response.

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Network Testing Firewall Malware 8

Ivanti

MARCH 9, 2022

At the beginning of 2019, we set up a completely new infrastructure for our end-users. This prevents potentially dangerous executables containing viruses, spyware, and malware from contaminating the corporate network. New infrastructure. Integration. Help was on the way. So that’s it?

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Azure Spyware Infrastructure Virtualization 76

Praxent

MAY 12, 2021

Breaches, phishing, malware, domain infringement, malvertising, ransomware, malicious mobile apps, brand abuse and fake social posts are all currently conspicuously dangerous to traditional banking organizations. Average spending per employee rose to $2,691 from $2,337 in 2019. The Cost of Security and Insecurity.

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Security Technical Review Technical Advisors Banking 52

Tenable

JANUARY 7, 2020

On January 4, security researcher Kevin Beaumont ( @GossiTheDog ) observed two "notable incidents" in which a vulnerability in a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution was used to breach two organizations and install targeted ransomware. Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) January 4, 2020. Pulse Secure Vulnerability.

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Malware Games Research Virtualization 18

Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Automatically, Prisma Cloud analyzes the actual runtime for dynamic threats, learning all the processes that will be run, the network activity for the image and all filesystem access to build an in-depth model of what the image will do. These capabilities have been further expanded to protect Windows hosts, including Windows Server 2019 LTSC.

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Google Cloud Serverless Azure Weak Development Team 82

Tenable

MARCH 8, 2021

We urge organizations to patch Proxylogon (CVE-2021-26855) and related vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065) in Microsoft Exchange Server and investigate for potential compromise within their networks. We encourage network owners to patch ASAP: [link]. Here's how Tenable products can help. Background.

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Malware Internet Analysis Report 58