Top 10 Cybersecurity Best Practices to Combat Ransomware

If you’re like most IT professionals, the threat of a ransomware attack might keep you up at night. And you have a valid reason to worry — ransomware doesn’t discriminate. Organizations across every industry, public or private, are potential victims, if they haven’t been victims already. In fact,...

Invest in These 3 Key Security Technologies to Fight Ransomware

A recent survey by Fortinet revealed that two-thirds of organizations had been the target of at least one ransomware attack – and 85 percent are more concerned about a ransomware attack than any other form of cyberattack. And, the evolving threat landscape is cited as one of the top challenges in...

Protect yourself from BlackMatter ransomware: Advice issued

Despite promises made by the BlackMatter ransomware gang about which organizations and business types they would avoid, multiple US critical infrastructure entities have been targeted. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, in conjunction with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Feds Warn BlackMatter Ransomware Gang is Poised to Strike

Federal authorities are warning businesses to shore up cybersecurity defenses as it carefully monitors the reemergence of the DarkSide ransomware gang, believed responsible for the crippling Colonial Pipeline attack in May 2021. The ransomware-as-a-service gang has regrouped under the moniker...

BlackMatter Ransomware

Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Usestrong, unique passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note: this advisory uses t...

CISA Issues Warning On Cyber Threats Targeting Water and Wastewater Systems

The U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency CISA on Thursday warned of continued ransomware attacks aimed at disrupting water and wastewater facilities WWS, highlighting five incidents that occurred between March 2019 and August 2021. "This activity—which includes attempts to...

CISA, FBI, and NSA Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Conti Ransomware 

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA alerting organizations of increased Conti ransomware attacks. Malicious cyber actors use Conti ransomware to steal sensitive files from domestic and international...

BadAlloc Flaw Affects BlackBerry QNX Used in Millions of Cars and Medical Devices

A major vulnerability affecting older versions of BlackBerry's QNX Real-Time Operating System RTOS could allow malicious actors to cripple and gain control of a variety of products, including cars, medical, and industrial equipment. The shortcoming CVE-2021-22156, CVSS score: 9.0 is part of a...

Chinese Gas Pipeline Intrusion Campaign, 2011 to 2013

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. Note: CISA released technical information, including indicators of compromise IOCs,...

DarkSide Ransomware: Best Practices for Preventing Business Disruption from Ransomware Attacks

Summary This Advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge ATT &CK® framework, Version 9. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of...

Schneider Electric Modicon X80

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: Modicon X80 Vulnerability: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in...

How Network Segmentation Simplifies PCI DSS Compliance

Read more about how proper network segmentation can simplify PCI DSS compliance by effectively reducing the number of assets in scope...

5 Benefits of Network Segmentation

Learn more about how microsegmentation can enable you to achieve granular network segmentation, quickly and securely...

Rockwell Automation Micro800 and MicroLogix 1400

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Rockwell Automation Equipment: Micro800, MicroLogix 1400 Vulnerability: Channel Accessible by Non-endpoint 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in denial-of-service conditions, which...

Kubernetes Security Is Not Container Security

Container-specific security I recently had an interesting discussion with Gianluca Brindisi from Spotify about the differences between Kubernetes security and container security. Typically, the discussion about container security focuses on general questions that aren’t focused on a specific...

Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security

We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe? Hacks are becoming more frequent and attacking personal, private data...

Genua GenuGate High Resistance Firewall Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Genua GenuGate High Resistance Firewall versions prior to 10.1 p4, 9.6 p7, and 9.0 Z p19 suffer from an authentication bypass vulnerability. ======================================================================= title: Authentication bypass vulnerability product: Genua GenuGate High Resistance...

Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle

Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedle PDF We named Lazarus the most active group of 2020. Weve observed numerous activities by this notorious APT group targeting various industries. The group has changed target depending on the primary objective. Google TAG has recently published a...

Rockwell Automation Logix Controllers (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 10.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Rockwell Automation Equipment: Studio 5000 Logix Designer, RSLogix 5000, Logix Controllers Vulnerability: Insufficiently Protected Credentials 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a...

SolarWinds Hack and the Case of DNS Security

It's not news that some of the top government agencies and companies in the world were victims of the SolarWinds attack. At this point, I can say it's the reason I didn't have a smoother transition back into work-life following a long vacation. As I understand it, the breaches happened after...