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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

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One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. Kinsing is a notorious malware family active for several years, primarily targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructure. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file.

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense

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Ransomware is a strain of malware that blocks users (or a company) from accessing their personal data or apps on infected iOS, iPadOS, and Android mobile devices, macOS laptops, Windows personal computers and servers, and Linux servers. Communications : The malware scans the contents of the SD card.

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Cloudy with a chance of threats: Advice for mitigating the top cyber threats of 2024

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Workload: Mass scanning for vulnerabilities Workloads, which include computing resources like Linux and Windows hosts, are susceptible to compromise. Once the scanning process uncovers possible targets, the next phase is exploitation, where the threat actors deploy various forms of malware. Malware (e.g.,

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Ransomware hits the cloud

Lacework

In the last two years, we’ve seen a 600% increase in attacks which is not terribly surprising given ransomware, a form of malware that seeks to encrypt or withhold data unless a ransom is paid, is profitable for attackers. Move over Windows, Linux is next. The adoption of containers and Linux has increased the attack surface.

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CVE-2021-26084: Atlassian Confluence OGNL Injection Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

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Initial confusion surrounding authentication requirement. When the vulnerability was first disclosed on August 25, the advisory stated that an authenticated attacker or “in some instances” an unauthenticated attacker — depending on the configuration — could exploit the flaw. Image Source: Atlassian Confluence Advisory.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

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It supports iPhones, Windows, Linux, MacOS, and web browsers. To improve software supply chain security, the Python Package Index (PyPI), which is the registry for open source Python packages, now requires two factor authentication from all publishers. It’s not just Linux. It is available from HuggingFace.

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Radar Trends to Watch: January 2023

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It’s been known to impersonate Linux, help developers learn new programming languages, and even improve traditional college courses (where its ability to make mistakes can be turned into an asset). ChatGPT’s training set included a lot of information about Linux, so you can tell it to act like a Linux terminal. And ChatGPT?

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