CIO

JANUARY 20, 2023

For example, according to research from Unit 42, 75% of infusion pumps have unpatched vulnerabilities. 3 Unit 42 research also found that 83% of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners run on an end-of-life operating system. 4 Those operating systems have known vulnerabilities that can potentially be exploited.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company’s threat detection platform — its moneymaker — helps companies with industrial control systems defend against hackers trying to get into important operational systems. But the country has faced extensive criticism for its human rights record by international rights groups.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

However, outdated operating systems can be more vulnerable to security risks because they may lack the latest security updates and patches, serving as an entry point for hackers to infiltrate networks. What is fixed wireless access?

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Tenable

APRIL 19, 2024

Aimed at a broad audience, including policymakers, researchers and executives, the report seeks to help readers get “a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the complex field of AI.” The report, divided into nine chapters, covers topics including research and development; technical performance; responsible AI; and policy and governance.

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The Parallax

JUNE 18, 2018

On May 25, the FBI issued a clarion call to a broad swath of Wi-Fi router owners: To clear out a potential botnet malware infection, reboot your router. The malware, VPNFilter, allowed hackers to snoop on all traffic passing through the router, including stealing website log-ins, as well as disable the device.

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Tenable

JANUARY 19, 2024

In addition, the latest on the Androxgh0st malware. That’s according to the “ State of the CISO, 2023–2024 Benchmark Report ” from IANS Research and Artico Search, which was announced this week and is based on a survey of 660 CISOs and on unstructured interviews with 100 CISOs. And much more! Watch it on demand!

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

An Apple vulnerability that allowed anybody to access a Mac running the latest version of its operating system became widely known on Tuesday. Although Apple fixed the problem, the severity of the bug worries independent security researchers. Malware writers love this because it’s so stable.”. macos 10.13

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

critical infrastructure through exploitation of known vulnerabilities Background On February 8, Fortinet published an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) to address a critical flaw in FortiOS, its network operating system. CVE Description CVSSv3 Severity CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-bound Write Vulnerability in sslvpnd 9.6

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Tenable

APRIL 20, 2021

Researchers at NCCGroup published technical advisories in October 2020 for both flaws. For CVE-2020-8243, the researchers detail how an attacker could exploit the flaw to gain arbitrary code execution privileges on the underlying operating system by injecting a backdoored template file.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. In the first quarter of 2014, the company’s advanced research division—Invincea Labs—secured $8.1M Invincea is the premier innovator in advanced malware threat detection, breach prevention and forensic threat intelligence. – bg. Videos: [link]. Webinar Series: [link].

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2023

As of March 29, based on what has been shared publicly by researchers, the following versions of the 3CX desktop apps are considered to be affected: Operating System Version Filename SHA256 (Installer) Windows 18.12.407 3cxdesktopapp-18.12.407.msi Do we know which versions of the 3CX desktop apps are vulnerable?

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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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Tenable

APRIL 8, 2021

Recent research has borne out that the odds of a small or medium-sized business (SMB) undergoing a cyberattack or data breach are more than 50-50: About 66% of SMBs experienced at least one cyberattack in 2019. Say a malware strain entered an industrial control system (ICS) while it wasn't connected to the company's overall network.

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ProtectWise

MAY 15, 2017

Any network with hosts running a version of the Windows operating system missing the MS17-010 patches is vulnerable to WannaCry's infection mechanism. The patches for Microsoft (currently supported) operating systems were released on March 14, 2017 following the Shadow Brokers leak. Who Created The Malware?

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Tenable

MARCH 5, 2021

The term "vulnerability" isn't synonymous with "malware" or "virus”: It simply means any weakness within your network that can be exploited. Vulnerabilities can be errors in application coding, unpatched flaws in the operating systems of hosts on the network, devices on the network with insufficient security measures or other complications.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 6, 2023

AI LMSYS ORG (Large Model Systems Organization), a research cooperative between Berkeley, UCSD, and CMU, has released ELO ratings of large language models, based on a competitive analysis. Data OpenSafely is an open source platform that allows researchers to access electronic health records securely and transparently.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This evidence needs to be from a credible source — a known industry partner, a trusted security researcher, or a government partner.” So, malware wanting to exploit BLE vulnerabilities in a remote device would need to include such capabilities or an attacker would need to write some code to use BLE APIs exposed on the compromised device.

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Ivanti

JUNE 14, 2023

AI generated polymorphic exploits can bypass leading security tools Recently, AI-generated polymorphic malware has been developed to bypass EDR and antivirus, leaving security teams with blind spots into threats and vulnerabilities. This mutation is not detectable by traditional signature-based and low-level heuristics detection engines.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers are building large natural language models, potentially the size of GPT-3, to decode the “speech” of whales. a threat to privacy, or a valuable academic research tool? Facebook AI Research has created a set of first-person (head-mounted camera) videos called Ego4D for training AI. through trial and error.

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Lacework

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The malware infected the industrial control systems that were used to operate the plant, which then caused some of the machinery to spin too quickly and severely damage and destroy itself. . For the first time, malware was used to cause physical damage. Today, almost all critical infrastructure sectors are at risk.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2015

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that grew the company’s portfolio in isolation, containerization and detection techniques for protecting operating systems from targeted attacks. 8,935,773 for “Malware Detector.”. Hundreds of malware forensic analysts are now using Invincea Research Edition. Linked In: [link].

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Malvertising is increasingly being deployed by threat actors to spread malware, including ransomware and scams, and redirect users from legitimate websites to phishing and exploit kit–hosting sites. Notable Examples: In December 2016, ESET researchers identified the ‘ Stegano ’ campaign (which dates back to 2014).

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Ivanti

JULY 12, 2022

Risk-based prioritization methods take into account known exploited, appearances in malware and ransomware and if an exploit is trending into account helping to more effectively reduce risk. Many expected it to be disabled or uninstalled from those systems which are no longer supported. The resolution is also not simple.

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Tenable

JULY 11, 2023

According to researchers at Microsoft, exploitation of CVE-2023-36884 has been attributed to a threat actor known as Storm-0978, also known as DEV-0978 and RomCom, a reference to the backdoor used by the group as part of its attacks. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to obtain administrative privileges on the target system.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 2, 2020

The same Norton research found that it can take companies, on average, 196 days to identify a data breach. You can use regression to predict system calls of operating systems, and then identify anomalies by comparing the prediction to an actual call. Hackers also use AI —to improve and enhance their malware.

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Artificial Inteligence Examples Applications Machine Learning 93

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2021

AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru was fired from Google. The attack came through malware planted in a security product from SolarWinds. Operating Systems. We see new programming languages almost on a daily basis, but new operating systems are rare. AI, ML, and Data. This could be an important event.

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Trends Artificial Inteligence Linux Systems Review 99

Tenable

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Excerpts in this thread: "Microsoft security researchers recently discovered a sophisticated attack where an adversary inserted malicious code into a supply chain development process. New Blog from us at FireEye: Writeup of UNC2452, a highly sophisticated attacker who distributed malware via a software supply chain attack.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 1, 2021

An AI system to give ethical advice gives unethical advice. What’s concerning isn’t the bad advice so much as the naiveté of the research project. The Trojan Source vulnerability uses Unicode’s ability to handle bi-directional text to hide malware directly in the source code, where it is invisible.

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Xicom

JANUARY 9, 2023

7) Less Chance of Malware. Malware can have a damaging impact on your business, leading to lost time, money, and reputation. While Android users are more likely to encounter malware, iOS users have less chance of running into it. This is when different devices use different versions of the same operating system.

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Tenable

JULY 14, 2020

The flaw has existed for 17 years, affecting Windows Server versions from 2003 to 2019, and was discovered by Sagi Tzadik and Eyal Itkin from Check Point Research who have dubbed this vulnerability “SIGRed.” DNS is a core networking component and any compromise of a DNS server could have a severe impact within an organization.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Fixmo SafeWatch is designed to fill that void, giving individuals the tools they need to secure and protect their personal information, and guard against the increasingly common malware targeting mobile operating systems. Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware and safe web browsing in partnership with Kaspersky Lab.

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d2iq

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is borne out in research that shows that “Supply chain attacks rose by 42% in the first quarter of 2021 in the U.S., Provides support for immutable operating systems such as Flatcar. impacting up to seven million people.”As The following describes how DKP 2.0 maps to the NSA/CISA guidelines.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Organizations that follow the principle of least privilege can improve their security posture by significantly reducing their attack surface and risk of malware spread. In the early days of Windows operating systems up through Windows XP, almost any program a user would launch would have administrator-level privileges.

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Software Review Backup Systems Review Malware 307

Lacework

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Our research team found that we didn’t need to leverage any syscalls to make the bypass—instead, we could leverage syscall’s design, allowing us to inject a long delay to reliably bypass syscall monitoring. Many syscalls can be blocked because the operating system needs to wait for the underlying resources to respond.

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Linux Cloud Tools Storage 52

Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 7, 2021

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. The post Unit 42 Discovers First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog.

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Malware Windows Software Review Open Source 86

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. Poorly configured and vulnerable IoT devices present a target-rich environment for hackers to build massive botnets.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But first, tech giants and telecommunications network providers will have to fix its major security flaws, researchers say. Google Play is an ‘order of magnitude’ better at blocking malware. ”—Karsten Nohl, CEO, Security Research Labs. Vodafone told The Parallax in an emailed statement that it is “aware” of the research.

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