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📢 Technology to optimize your cloud 📢

An intelligent system admin who's always on the job.

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🖋️ Quad7 Botnet Expands to Target SOHO Routers and VPN Appliances 🖋️

The operators of the mysterious Quad7 botnet are actively evolving by compromising several brands of SOHO routers and VPN appliances by leveraging a combination of both known and unknown security flaws. Targets include devices from TPLINK, Zyxel, Asus, Axentra, DLink, and NETGEAR, according to a new report by French cybersecurity company Sekoia. "The Quad7 botnet operators appear to be.

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🖋️ DragonRank Black Hat SEO Campaign Targeting IIS Servers Across Asia and Europe 🖋️

A "simplified Chinesespeaking actor" has been linked to a new campaign that has targeted multiple countries in Asia and Europe with the end goal of performing search engine optimization SEO rank manipulation. The black hat SEO cluster has been codenamed DragonRank by Cisco Talos, with victimology footprint scattered across Thailand, India, Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, and China. ".

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📔 Operational Technology Leaves Itself Open to Cyber-Attack 📔

Excessive use of remote access tools is leaving operational technology devices vulnerable, with even basic security features missing.

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🦅 Major ICS Security Flaws Disclosed in LOYTEC, Hughes, and Baxter Products 🦅

Key Takeaways Three major advisories from CISA address 17 vulnerabilities across products from LOYTEC Electronics GmbH, Hughes Network Systems, and Baxter. Multiple products are affected by vulnerabilities allowing for the cleartext transmission of sensitive data, such as passwords, which could be exploited through ManintheMiddle MitM attacks. Despite being reported in 2021, these vulnerabilities are now publicly disclosed due to the vendor's lack of response. With 629 internetexposed instances, primarily in Italy and France, the likelihood of exploitation is high. Proof of Concepts PoCs for these vulnerabilities is publicly available. Other notable vulnerabilities include insufficiently protected credentials and SQL injection, affecting critical infrastructure systems. ...

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🦿 Cybersecurity Hiring: How to Overcome Talent Shortages and Skills Gaps 🦿

According to the ISC2, 90 of organizations face cybersecurity skills shortages. Plus, the gap between roles to fill and available talent widened.

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🕵️‍♂️ Amateurish 'CosmicBeetle' Ransomware Stings SMBs in Turkey 🕵️‍♂️

With an immature codebase and a "rather chaotic encryption scheme" prone to failure, the group targets small businesses with custom malware.

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🕵️‍♂️ Dark Reading Expands Its Coverage to the Asia-Pacific Region 🕵️‍♂️

The latest step in a journey to serve cybersecurity professionals in other regions of the world.

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🖋️ WordPress Mandates Two-Factor Authentication for Plugin and Theme Developers 🖋️

WordPress.org has announced a new account security measure that will require accounts with capabilities to update plugins and themes to activate twofactor authentication 2FA mandatorily. The enforcement is expected to come into effect starting October 1, 2024. "Accounts with commit access can push updates and changes to plugins and themes used by millions of WordPress sites worldwide," the.

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📔 Open Source Updates Have 75% Chance of Breaking Apps 📔

Endor Labs claims security patches can break underlying open source software 75 of the time.

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📔 Business Email Compromise Costs $55bn Over a Decade 📔

New FBI data reveals BEC scams have cost businesses more than 55bn since 2013.

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🕵️‍♂️ Hackers Proxyjack & Cryptomine Selenium Grid Servers 🕵️‍♂️

A vendor honeypot caught two attacks intended to leverage the tens of thousands of exposed Selenium Grid Web app testing servers.

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🦿 The 6 Best Penetration Testing Companies for 2024 🦿

Discover the top six penetration testing companies for businesses of all sizes. Learn the pros and cons of pentesting providers like Astra, BreachLock, and Acunetix.

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🖋️ Top 3 Threat Report Insights for Q2 2024 🖋️

Cato CTRL Cyber Threats Research Lab has released its Q2 2024 Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report. The report highlights critical findings based on the analysis of a staggering 1.38 trillion network flows from more than 2,500 of Catos global customers, between April and June 2024. Key Insights from the Q2 2024 Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report The report is packed with unique insights that are based on.

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🖋️ Iranian Cyber Group OilRig Targets Iraqi Government in Sophisticated Malware Attack 🖋️

Iraqi government networks have emerged as the target of an "elaborate" cyber attack campaign orchestrated by an Iran statesponsored threat actor called OilRig. The attacks singled out Iraqi organizations such as the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cybersecurity company Check Point said in a new analysis. OilRig, also called APT34, Crambus, Cobalt Gypsy, GreenBug,.

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🖋️ Ireland's Watchdog Launches Inquiry into Google's AI Data Practices in Europe 🖋️

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC has announced that it has commenced a "CrossBorder statutory inquiry" into Google's foundational artificial intelligence AI model to determine whether the tech giant has adhered to data protection regulations in the region when processing the personal data of European users. "The statutory inquiry concerns the question of whether Google has complied.

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📔 UK Recognizes Data Centers as Critical National Infrastructure 📔

The UK government has classified data centers as critical infrastructure in a move to protect UK data from cyberattacks and prevent major IT blackouts.

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📢 The Iran cyber threat: Breaking down attack tactics 📢

Iran has been implicated in multiple recent cyber attacks as statebacked hackers evolve their tactics, businesses must respond by shoring up defenses.

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🕵️‍♂️ Rising Tide of Software Supply Chain Attacks: An Urgent Problem 🕵️‍♂️

Understanding a threat is just as important as the steps taken toward prevention.

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🦿 How Business Owners Can Evolve with a Changing Technological Landscape 🦿

Check out these five course bundles breaking down the most important IT, development, and cybersecurity skills that a business owner can master.

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🧠 How I got started: AI security executive 🧠

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming increasingly crucial to cybersecurity systems. Organizations need professionals with a strong background that mixes AIML knowledge with cybersecurity skills, bringing on board people like Nicole Carignan, Vice President of Strategic Cyber AI at Darktrace, who has a unique blend of technical and soft skills. Carignan was originally a The post How I got started AI security executive appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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