Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Volt Typhoon hacking gang is stealthily breaching critical infrastructure IT environments so it can strike on behalf of the Chinese government, cyber agencies say. critical infrastructure IT and operational technology security teams, listen up. Critical Infrastructure. ” Plus, ransomware gangs netted $1 billion-plus in 2023.

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CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

After all, you wouldn’t want your haptic glove to misbehave in the metaverse or your autonomous vehicle sensors to be hijacked by malware. Separating system and application spaces is already gaining followers for immutable Linux operating systems – even in consumer devices. Operating Systems for the edge.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

A model trained on, say, an archive of flat earth conspiracy theories will be bad at answering science questions, or a model fine-tuned by North Korean hackers might be bad at correctly identifying malware. They’re also full of inaccurate and biased information, malware, and other materials that can degrade the quality of output.

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Linux Academy

APRIL 29, 2019

By adding free cloud training to our Community Membership, students have the opportunity to develop their Linux and Cloud skills further. Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another.

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Tenable

AUGUST 25, 2023

government says public- and private-sector organizations alike must start getting ready now – especially critical infrastructure operators. The vast majority of enterprises polled – 95% – experienced multiple cyberattacks in the past 12 months, with phishing (74%), malware (60%) and software vulnerability exploits (50%) being the most common.

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Lacework

APRIL 21, 2021

Sysrv-hello is a multi-architecture Cryptojacking (T1496) botnet that first emerged in late 2020, and employs Golang malware compiled into both Linux and Windows payloads.

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Lacework

MARCH 6, 2024

Unlike traditional malware, LOTL techniques exploit trusted system tools already present in the environment, making detection incredibly difficult. Whether you’re defending enterprise networks or securing cloud infrastructure, understanding these subversive attacks is essential for every security professional.

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Palo Alto Networks

DECEMBER 29, 2022

23, a new variant of wiper malware, named HermeticWiper, was discovered in Ukraine. In January 2022, Unit 42 researchers were able to map out three large clusters of Gamaredon’s infrastructure used to support different phishing and malware purposes. New Linux Vulnerability CVE-2022-0492 Affecting Cgroups: Can Containers Escape?

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Linux Academy

MAY 5, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 22, 2018

Its success was predicated not on “zero-day” vulnerabilities or new forms of malicious software, but rather on older, known malware delivered via an all-too-familiar method: phishing. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp.

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Linux Academy

MAY 5, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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Linux Academy

MAY 6, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve discussed patch management and using vulnerability scanning to see what vulnerabilities are in your infrastructure, and then we dove into the importance of data backups , as well as passwords and policies such as using MFA and proactively identifying compromised passwords to help secure your infrastructure.

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Linux Academy

JUNE 17, 2019

They aim to find problems that need resolving to ensure our infrastructures run securely. EICAR is an industry standard test file used to test malware, anti-virus, content filters, etc. The post Self-Audits | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure appeared first on Linux Academy Blog. Security audits are the same thing.

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Edgewise

JANUARY 31, 2019

What happens, then, when a cyber attack, namely malware, is used to uninstall security software designed specifically to prevent public cloud infrastructure compromise? This is precisely what happened with a new malware variant discovered by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.

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The Crazy Programmer

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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. It will compare the attacks against an established baseline.

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Tenable

APRIL 19, 2024

funding, technical expertise), and the infrastructure used (i.e., Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of Homeland’s Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and seven startup companies. CIS Debian Linux 11 Benchmark v2.0.0 CIS Ubuntu Linux 18.04 CIS Ubuntu Linux 18.04

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Lacework

JUNE 14, 2022

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. Cloud infrastructure/platform: 35%. Move over Windows, Linux is next. Ransomware attacks are on the rise.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

It supports iPhones, Windows, Linux, MacOS, and web browsers. PyPI has been plagued with malware submissions, account takeovers, and other security issues. It’s not just Linux. The Prossimo project is improving memory safety on the Internet by rewriting important Unix/Linux infrastructure components using Rust.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 3, 2021

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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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2021

The attack came through malware planted in a security product from SolarWinds. It still isn’t known exactly what data has been accessed, or how to rebuild infrastructure that has been compromised. Google’s FuschiaOS, a possible replacement for the Android’s Linux kernel, is now “ open for contributions.” Quantum Computing.

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Palo Alto Networks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Turla’s infamy stems from its covert exfiltration tactics, including water holing of government websites, custom rootkits, elaborate command-and-control network infrastructure and deception tactics. The blue team deployed the Cortex XDR Pro for Endpoint agent on both Windows and Linux endpoints. None – There was no detection. (No

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2022

This could further allow the attacker to spread malware or exfiltrate sensitive data, making it a useful flaw for ransomware groups in particular. As part of their technical write up, CrowdStrike walked through a proof of concept that exploits CVE-2022-0811 to execute malware. Proof of concept. How Tenable.cs Tenable.cs

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Kerla is a Linux-like operating system kernel written in Rust that can run most Linux executables. I doubt this will ever be integrated into Linux, but it’s yet another sign that Rust has joined the big time. library (UA-Parser-JS) installs crypto miners and trojans for stealing passwords on Linux and Windows systems.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This service allows you to use their infrastructure to train large language models at scale. OpenTofu , OpenTF’s fork of Hashicorp’s Terraform, has been backed by the Linux Foundation and adopted by several major enterprises. Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware. A nice piece of analysis.

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AlienVault

APRIL 2, 2019

Overview: Recently, AT&T Alien Labs identified a new malware family that is actively scanning for exposed web services and default passwords. It is likely related to the previously reported malware families Xbash and MongoLock. The IP range supplied by the C2 infrastructure is base64 encoded and zlib compressed. zh-CN; rv:1.9)

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Gorilla Logic

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Web servers typically run on either Linux or Microsoft Windows machines, with most website hosting companies using Linux. Common website tech stacks combine these elements into web server OS-based sets: Linux-based or LAMP: Linux, plus Apache web server, MySQL database engine, and PHP for programming language.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2021

There’s a new technique for protecting natural language systems from attack by misinformation and malware bots: using honeypots to capture attackers’ key phrases proactively, and incorporate defenses into the training process. The attack apparently only affects on-premises infrastructure. AI and Data. Miscellaneous.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This month's Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for: Azure Open Management Infrastructure. Windows Subsystem for Linux. EoP vulnerabilities are commonly used in malware/ransomware attacks as we’ve observed with CVE-2020-1472 , aka Zerologon , one of the Top Five Vulnerabilities of 2020. Azure Sphere. Windows MSHTML Platform.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan ” (The Linux Foundation and The Open Source Security Foundation). The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO) has released a guide for helping security teams test and benchmark IoT security products, an area the non-profit group says is still in its infancy.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 7, 2020

Based on the numerous “proof of concept” (POC) tests we have conducted around the world, we discovered that IoT botnet activity makes up a very large proportion of the malware in mobile networks today. Challenge 1: Security in the Internet of Connected Things. The physical network perimeter is rapidly disappearing.

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AlienVault

MARCH 14, 2019

Organizations of all sizes have made considerable shifts to using cloud-based infrastructure for their day-to-day business operations. One of the most widely observed objectives of attacking an organization's cloud infrastructure has been for cryptocurrency mining. Compromised Container Management Platforms. API Key Compromise.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

They pulled the hard drive out of the wall safe, plugged it into my Linux laptop, booted it up off of a different drive, and then accessed files and copied it. Where things start getting different is when there are other factors: government contractors versus government agencies versus critical-infrastructure companies.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

CISA is calling on router makers to improve security, because attackers like Volt Typhoon compromise routers to breach critical infrastructure systems. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week in the alert “ Security Design Improvements for SOHO Device Manufacturers. ”

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Kentik

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The new link supplements one from China and will provide back-up to Pyongyang at a time the US government is reportedly attacking its Internet infrastructure and pressuring China to end all business with North Korea,” reports Johns Hopkins blog 38 North. Cloudflare Suspends Torrent Website for Cryptocurrency Miner ‘Malware’ (CoinDesk).

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Linux Academy

MAY 20, 2019

There are several reasons for wanting to restrict outbound communications, such as defeating malware, making data exfiltration harder, and the detection of infected hosts. We discuss whitelist and blacklist approaches in the CompTIA CySA+ course here at Linux Academy. Defeat Malware. What Traffic Should Be Blocked Outbound?

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Prisma Clud

JUNE 20, 2023

That number speaks for itself, showcasing the increasing reliance on the public cloud as the infrastructure of choice. Virtual machines remain a foundational cloud computing element, offering isolation and control of the underlying infrastructure. Solutions must be as adaptive and versatile as the workloads they protect.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Eva Andreasson has been working with JVMs, SOA, Cloud, and infrastructure software for 15+ years. Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Eva Andreasson. He likes shiny objects.

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