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Agentless Workload Scanning Gets Supercharged with Malware Scanning

Prisma Clud

Using WildFire in 2021 to analyze malicious files, our threat research team discovered a 73% increase in Cobalt Strike malware samples compared to 2020. The speed, volume and sophistication of modern malware attacks has made them more difficult to detect.

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Window Snyder’s new startup Thistle Technologies raises $2.5M seed to secure IoT devices

TechCrunch

Security veteran Window Snyder thinks there is a better way. Other malicious hackers target IoT devices as a way to get a foot into a victim’s network, allowing them to launch attacks or plant malware from the inside. ” He added: “Window has so many of the qualities we look for in founders.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

2 Over half (51%) of all X-Ray machines had a high severity CVE (CVE-2019-11687), with around 20% running an unsupported version of Windows. Better IoT Security Helps Ease Regulatory Compliance Challenges Understandably, there are a lot of compliance requirements in healthcare. Simplify operations. What is the device?

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Is your print environment secure? Here’s why it should be your 2024 priority

CIO

The Foundry survey found three significant challenges forcing security leaders to redirect their focus: meeting governance and compliance regulations; budgetary constraints/demonstrating RoI and employee awareness and training issues. Given the many other security challenges and priorities faced by CISOs this is perhaps unsurprising.

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Malware Analysis using Osquery Part 1

AlienVault

In this blog series, we’ll analyze different malware families, looking at the types of events generated on the endpoint and how we can use Osquery to detect them. The dropper spreads through email phishing and downloads the malware using a malicious Office macro. Let's start! File samples: [link].

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Malware Analysis using Osquery Part 2

AlienVault

In the first part of this series, we saw how you can use Osquery to analyze and extract valuable information about malware’s behavior. In this post, we are going to see another common technique that malware uses persistence. The malware will be executed every time the user logs on. Here is an example of OilRig malware.

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What is Intrusion Detection System (IDS) – Working, Types, Best Tools

The Crazy Programmer

For instance, it will notice when a host has been infected with malware and tries to spread the malware across the network. An Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection System (AIDS) is designed to pinpoint unknown cybersecurity attacks such as novel malware attacks. Such threats could lead to data leaks and compliance breaches.

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