Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (More Data): What Security Pros Are Saying

Eight in 10 organizations collect, process, and analyze security operations data from more than 10 sources, ESG identified in a new ebook SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR, sponsored by Rapid7. Security professionals believe that the most important sources are endpoint security data 24%, thre...

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in UEM Software 2022 IDC MarketScape reports

Competition for talent has increased pressure to lead in the digital space, and business decisions now weigh user experience for employees heavily among costs and benefits. Workers insist on experiences that mirror their personal experiences, often on their own devices. As enterprise computing ha...

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery 权限许可和访问控制问题漏洞

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery is a site recovery DRaaS from the U.S. company Microsoft for cloud and hybrid cloud architectures. Microsoft Azure Site Recovery elevation of privilege vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to gain elevated privileges on the system...

A week in security (July 4 – July 10)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: My Body, My Data Act would lock down reproductive and sexual health data "Free UK visa" offers on WhatsApp are fakes HackerOne insider fired for trying to claim other people’s bounties Update now! Chrome patches ANOTHER zero-day vulnerability Cloud-based malware is...

Cloud Complexity Requires a Unified Approach to Assessing Risk

There has been an unprecedented acceleration in the shift to the cloud as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. McKinsey experts estimate companies have moved to the cloud “24 times faster ... than they thought” over the past two years. As organizations move quickly to scale, drive innovation, and...

Cloud-based malware is on the rise. How can you secure your business?

There’s a lot of reasons to think the cloud is more secure than on-prem servers, from better data durability to more consistent patch management — but even so, there are many threats to cloud security businesses should address. Cloud-based malware is one of them. Indeed, while cloud environments...

Microsoft Warns of Cryptomining Malware Campaign Targeting Linux Servers

A cloud threat actor group tracked as 8220 has updated its malware toolset to breach Linux servers with the goal of installing crypto miners as part of a long-running campaign. "The updates include the deployment of new versions of a crypto miner and an IRC bot," Microsoft Security Intelligence...

Service Fabric Privilege Escalation from Containerized Workloads on Linux

Under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure CVD, cloud-security vendor Palo Alto Networks informed Microsoft of an issue affecting Service Fabric SF Linux clusters CVE-2022-30137. The vulnerability enables a bad actor, with access to a compromised container, to escalate privileges and gain control...

CISA Releases Cloud Security Technical Reference Architecture

CISA has released its Cloud Security CS Technical Reference Architecture TRA to guide federal civilian departments and agencies in securely migrating to the cloud. Co-authored by CISA, the United States Digital Service, and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the CS TRA defines...

Gamification of Ethical Hacking and Hacking Esports

While ethical hacking is by no means a new or groundbreaking practice, the scale at which organizations and individuals are undertaking such initiatives continues to intensify, especially considering recent events such as the log4j vulnerability. Traditionally, ethical hacking is undertaken by...

Technical Details Released for 'SynLapse' RCE Vulnerability Reported in Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has incorporated additional improvements to address the recently disclosed SynLapse security vulnerability in order to meet comprehensive tenant isolation requirements in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines. The latest safeguards include moving the shared integration runtimes...

Defending Against Tomorrow's Threats: Insights From RSAC 2022

The rapidly changing pace of the cyberthreat landscape is on every security pro's mind. Not only do organizations need to secure complex cloud environments, they're also more aware than ever that their software supply chains and open-source elements of their application codebase might not be as...

A week in security (June 6 – June 12)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: FBI warns of scammers soliciting donations for Ukraine Microsoft autopatch is here…but can you use it? Prometheus ransomwares flaws inspired researchers to try to build a near-universal decryption tool Rotten apples banned from App store Hackers can take over...

The cloud gray zone—secret agents installed by cloud service providers

Wiz Research builds upon previous “OMIGOD” findings with a presentation at RSA Conference 2022; details how cloud middleware use across cloud service providers can expose customers' virtual machines to new attack vectors...

Identifying Cloud Waste to Contain Unnecessary Costs

Cloud adoption has exploded over the past decade or so, and for good reason. Many digital transformation advancements – and even the complete reimagination of entire industries – can be directly mapped and attributed to cloud innovation. While this rapid pace of innovation has had a profound impa...

A new vision for cloud security unites builders and defenders

Our introduction of attack path analysis APA and Cloud Detection and Response CDR further enriches the context provided by our foundational Wiz Security Graph...

Wiz launches cloud detection and response to help organizations quickly identify threats and limit breach exposure

Wiz today unveiled new advancements to its cloud security platform...

Cybersecurity Is More Than a Checklist: Joel Yonts on Tech’s Unfair Disadvantage

Breaches caused by misconfigurations are alarmingly common. Over a third of all cyberattacks in 2020 were the result of firewall, cloud, and server misconfigurations. The tech industry is at the highest risk of bad actors taking advantage of these preventable vulnerabilities, with the information...

The Ultimate SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) Checklist

Cloud security is the umbrella that holds within it: IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Gartner created the SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM category for solutions that continuously assess security risk and manage the SaaS applications’ security posture. With enterprises having 1,000 or more employees...

How to Protect Your Data When Ransomware Strikes

Ransomware is not a new attack vector. In fact, the first malware of its kind appeared more than 30 years ago and was distributed via 5.25-inch floppy disks. To pay the ransom, the victim had to mail money to a P.O. Box in Panama. Fast forward to today, affordable ransomware-as-a-service RaaS kit...