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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

These global events have also underscored the crucial significance of safeguarding our critical infrastructure against domestic or foreign attacks. It’s easy to envision the outcomes that could arise from a major assault on our vital infrastructure.

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Analyzing the Vulnerabilities Associated with the Top Malware Strains of 2021

Tenable

Analyzing the Vulnerabilities Associated with the Top Malware Strains of 2021. International cybersecurity agencies issue a joint alert outlining the top malware strains of 2021. While malware is used for a variety of purposes, the government agencies point out that ransomware is a primary use case. Background. Description.

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CVE-2024-20353, CVE-2024-20359: Frequently Asked Questions About ArcaneDoor

Tenable

Cisco says UAT4356 began the development and testing phase for this campaign back in July 2023, setting up the infrastructure for the campaign in November 2023. Is any malware associated with ArcaneDoor? For more information, refer to the individual advisory pages for CVE-2024-20353 and CVE-2024-20359.

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Kinsing & Dark.IoT botnet among threats targeting CVE-2022-26134

Lacework

As of this writing we have observed active exploitation by known Cloud threat malware families such as Kinsing, “Hezb”, and the Dark.IoT botnet. One interesting development was the use of a new malware host – 195.2.79.26 This is noteworthy because Kinsing often leverages legacy infrastructure in their attacks.

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Ketch raises another $20M as demand grows for its privacy data control platform

TechCrunch

There is also a matter of security, with much effort going into ransomware and malware, but Chavez feels a big opportunity is to bring security to the data wherever it lies. Once the infrastructure is in place for data control it needs to be at the level of individual cells and rows, he said. “If

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CVE-2023-2868: Barracuda and FBI Recommend Replacing Email Security Gateway (ESG) Devices Immediately

Tenable

Mandiant refers to this group as UNC4841. In these attacks, UNC4841 leveraged multiple backdoor malware families, dubbed SALTWATER , SEASPY , SEASIDE , SUBMARINE (DEPTHCHARGE), and WHIRLPOOL. These additional malware families are known as SKIPJACK and FOXTROT / FOXGLOVE.

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3 Cybersecurity Technologies You Should Know

The Crazy Programmer

Cybersecurity is more critical than ever in today’s modern world, especially with news of ransomware attacks and other forms of malware on the rise. An SDP hides an organization’s infrastructure from outsiders, regardless of where it is situated, by constructing a perimeter with software rather than hardware.