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How Watchdog smuggles malware into your network as uninteresting photos

Lacework

This ancient technique has found its place in the world of malware, namely hiding malicious code within other files including image formatted files ( T1027.003 ). General indicators and signatures for steg malware are provided in the hunting section. Steg malware is uncommon relative to other malware. Malware Details.

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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019

Linux Academy

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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What’s Free at Linux Academy — May 2019

Linux Academy

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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Learning From the Past — Ten 2022 Cybersecurity Events to Know

Palo Alto Networks

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. Russian APT29 Hackers Use Online Storage Services, Dropbox and Google Drive.

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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

Failure to Protect Against Data Corruption and Malware. Despite the growing frequency of headline-grabbing incidents, failing to detect malware in backup environments continues to be among the most common issues causing disaster recovery failures. Most malware infections target Windows-based systems. .

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

Ivanti

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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Threat detection and response tools are built on shaky foundations, leaving your cloud workloads at risk

Lacework

There are several ways to detect threats using system call (syscall) and kernel tracing in Linux. Advanced Threat Detection on Linux. Many cloud workloads run on Amazon EC2 and Kubernetes while most run on Linux. In modern Linux kernels, there are three main ways to monitor syscalls: Tracepoint .

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