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Combating Ransomware Attacks: Insights from Unit 42 Incident Response

Palo Alto Networks

Ransomware attacks have evolved over the years from a threat primarily targeting individuals with modest ransom demands, to a sophisticated form of cybercrime that now jeopardizes large companies, government agencies and critical infrastructure. Sam Rubin's testimony on ransomware attacks. We call this multi-extortion.

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

Lacework

We know that understanding and effectively prioritizing threats starts with identifying the enemy. In this blog, we’ll explore the motivations of bad actors, the top threats the Lacework Labs team is seeing, and practical ways to lock down your cloud and protect your data. How are these credentials getting leaked?

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Visibility of the Unknown: Understanding EASM and How It Can Help

Tenable

External attack surface management (EASM) is difficult and oftentimes confusing, especially in a world of poor inventory controls and a growing attack surface. This blog discusses what’s required to do EASM successfully. It is not cost efficient to identify assets of a company manually, nor is it safe to do so.

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Interview Questions To Ask Cybersecurity Candidates

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Without good cybersecurity experts, it becomes an extremely difficult task to protect your company’s data, servers, software, and other electronic systems from hackers and other cyber attacks. This goes without saying that our information is online too but the threat of cyber-attacks or stolen data still looms over us. .

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How Quickly Are We Patching Microsoft Exchange Servers?

Palo Alto Networks

As the world learned about the four zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server and the attacks that exploited them, many people wondered how widespread the effects would be. How many organizations are vulnerable to the Microsoft Exchange Server attacks? The Internet is Tiny. The internet is tiny.

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Multi-Extortion Techniques: Data Theft and Harassment on the Rise

Palo Alto Networks

Today’s ransomware gangs are constantly evolving their tactics to pressure organizations to pay ransoms. Based on extensive research from the Unit 42 threat intelligence and response teams, the 2023 Unit 42 Ransomware and Extortion Report exposes how active ransomware groups are increasing the pressure on targeted organizations.

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GitHub Actions: running them securely

Xebia

By creating a workflow file you run actions on code updates to build your application, automate triaging tasks from issues, and loads of other helpful uses. Make your own Octocat: [link] Tyranny of the default Every demo on GitHub Actions shows how easy it is to get started: add a text file with some actions in it and you are good to go.