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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Sophos-SecureWorks Deal Focuses on Building Advanced MDR, XDR Platform πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Sophos CEO Joe Levy says 859 million deal to acquire SecureWorks from majority owner Dell Technologies will put the Taegis platform with network detection and response, vulnerability detection and response, and identity threat detection and response capabilities at the core.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Windows 'Downdate' Attack Reverts Patched PCs to a Vulnerable State πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Windows 11 machines remain open to downgrade attacks, where attackers can abuse the Windows Update process to revive a patched driver signature enforcement DSE bypass.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ China's Elite Cyber Corps Hone Skills on Virtual Battlefields πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The nation leads in the number of capturetheflag tournaments sponsored by government and industry  a strategy from which Western nations could learn.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Delta Launches $500M Lawsuit Against CrowdStrike πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Delta argues that it lost hundreds of million of dollars in downtime and other costs in the aftermath of the incident, while CrowdStrike says it isn't liable for more than 10 million.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Russia Kneecaps Ukraine Army Recruitment With Spoofed 'Civil Defense' App πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Posing as an application used to locate Ukrainian military recruiters, a Kremlinbacked hacking initiative delivers malware, along with disinformation designed to undermine signups for soldiers in the war against Russia.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Mozilla: ChatGPT Can Be Manipulated Using Hex Code πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

LLMs tend to miss the forest for the trees, understanding specific instructions but not their broader context. Bad actors can take advantage of this myopia to get them to do malicious things, with a new promptinjection technique.

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πŸš€ Tony Fadell: Innovating to save our planet | Starmus highlights πŸš€

As methane emissions come under heightened global scrutiny, learn how a stateoftheart satellite can pinpoint their sources and deliver the insights needed for targeted mitigation efforts.

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πŸš€ CloudScout: Evasive Panda scouting cloud services πŸš€

ESET researchers discovered a previously undocumented toolset used by Evasive Panda to access and retrieve data from cloud services.

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πŸͺ– Staff Stories Spotlight Series: Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 πŸͺ–

This blog is part of a larger NIST series during the month of October for Cybersecurity Awareness Month , called 'Staff Stories Spotlight.' Throughout the month of October this year, QA style blogs will be published featuring some of our unique staff members who have interesting backgrounds, stories to tell, and projects in the world of cybersecurity. This years Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme is Secure our World. How does this theme resonate with you, as someone working in cybersecurity? This theme resonates strongly with me. I am very fortunate to have the role of leading and.

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πŸ–‹οΈ U.S. Government Issues New TLP Guidance for Cross-Sector Threat Intelligence Sharing πŸ–‹οΈ

The U.S. government USG has issued new guidance governing the use of the Traffic Light Protocol TLP to handle the threat intelligence information shared between the private sector, individual researchers, and Federal Departments and Agencies. "The USG follows TLP markings on cybersecurity information voluntarily shared by an individual, company, or other any organization, when not in.

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πŸ–‹οΈ New Research Reveals Spectre Vulnerability Persists in Latest AMD and Intel Processors πŸ–‹οΈ

More than six years after the Spectre security flaw impacting modern CPU processors came to light, new research has found that the latest AMD and Intel processors are still susceptible to speculative execution attacks. The attack, disclosed by ETH Zrich researchers Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi, aims to undermine the Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier IBPB on x86 chips, a crucial mitigation.

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πŸ“’ Apple is offering rewards of up to $1 million to find critical flaws in its private AI cloud systems πŸ“’

Apple is offering big bug bounty rewards to boost security of its Private Cloud Compute.

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πŸ“” Five Eyes Agencies Launch Startup Security Initiative πŸ“”

The UK has joined forces with its Five Eyes peers to offer cybersecurity guidance to startups.

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πŸ“” ICO: 55% of UK Adults Have Had Data Lost or Stolen πŸ“”

The UKs information commissioner claims most adults in the country have had their personal data exposed or compromised.

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πŸ“’ Hacker claims to have data linked to 19 million French mobile and internet customers πŸ“’

The secondlargest ISP and telephone operator in France confirmed it recently suffered a major breach, with the leaked data potentially including IBAN numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers.

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πŸ–‹οΈ A Sherlock Holmes Approach to Cybersecurity: Eliminate the Impossible with Exposure Validation πŸ–‹οΈ

Sherlock Holmes is famous for his incredible ability to sort through mounds of information he removes the irrelevant and exposes the hidden truth. His philosophy is plain yet brilliant When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Rather than following every lead, Holmes focuses on the details that are needed to move him to the solution. In.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Dutch Police Disrupt Major Info Stealers RedLine and MetaStealer in Operation Magnus πŸ–‹οΈ

The Dutch National Police, along with international partners, have announced the disruption of the infrastructure powering two information stealers tracked as RedLine and MetaStealer. The takedown, which took place on October 28, 2024, is the result of an international law enforcement task force codenamed Operation Magnus that involved authorities from the U.S., the U.K., Belgium, Portugal, and.

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πŸ“” Suspicious Social Media Accounts Deployed Ahead of COP29 πŸ“”

Global Witness uncovered a network of 71 suspicious accounts on X supporting the Azeri government.

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πŸ¦… Phishing Campaign Targeting Ukraine: UAC-0215 Threatens National Security πŸ¦…

Overview CERTUA, the Cyber Emergency Response Team for Ukraine, uncovered a phishing campaign orchestrated by the threat actor UAC0215. This campaign specifically targeted public institutions, major industries, and military units across Ukraine.    The phishing emails were cleverly disguised to promote integration with popular platforms like Amazon and Microsoft, as well as advocating for Zero Trust Architecture ZTA. However, the emails contained malicious .rdp configuration files that, when opened, established a connection to an attackercontrolled server.    This connection provided unauthorized access to a variety of local resources, including disk drives, network assets, printers, audio devices, and even the clipboard. The sophistication of this campaign raises security con...

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πŸ“’ Five real-world cyberattacks and how to stop them πŸ“’

Vol. 2 Technical attacks.

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πŸ“’ Five real-world cyberattacks and how to stop them πŸ“’

Vol. 1 Social engineering attacks.

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