Protecting your remote workforce from application-based attacks like consent phishing

The global pandemic has dramatically shifted how people work. As a result, organizations around the world have scaled up cloud services to support collaboration and productivity from home. We’re also seeing more apps leverage Microsoft’s identity platform to ensure seamless access and integrated...

PAN-OS: TLS 1.0 usage for certain communications with Palo Alto Networks cloud delivered services

Certain communication between PAN-OS and cloud-delivered services inadvertently use TLS 1.0, which is known to be a cryptographically weak protocol. These cloud services include Cortex Data Lake, the Customer Support Portal, and the Prisma Access infrastructure. Conditions required for exploitati...

How to Safeguard Data When the Majority of Your Workforce is Remote

Before our current situation, you and your teams may have implemented a comprehensive data protection plan. The scope of change businesses are currently facing is something none of us could have predicted. These changes will continue to impact how we work in the future. How can you be sure your...

The Fear of Vendor Lock-in Leads to Cloud Failures

Vendor lock-in has been an often-quoted risk since the mid-1990’s. Fear that by investing too much with one vendor, an organization reduces their options in the future. Was this a valid concern? Is it still today? The Risk Organizations walk a fine line with their technology vendors. Ideally, you...

Shadow IT: Why It’s Still a Major Risk in Today’s Environments

Shadow IT is nothing new. Employees have long adopted software applications or cloud services without the knowledge or approval of their organization’s IT department, most often in search of easier ways to get their jobs done. People typically utilize unsanctioned apps not because they’re seeking...

DoubleGun Group Builds Massive Botnet Using Cloud Services

An operation from the China-based cybercrime gang known as DoubleGun Group has been disrupted, which had amassed hundreds of thousands of bots that were controlled via public cloud services, including Alibaba and Baidu Tieba. NetLab 360 researchers, in a recent posting, said that it noticed DNS...

Turla APT Revamps One of Its Go-To Spy Tools

The Turla APT group has been spotted using an updated version of the ComRAT remote-access trojan RAT to attack governmental targets. Turla a.k.a. Snake, Venomous Bear, Waterbug or Uroboros, is a Russian-speaking threat actor known since 2014, but with roots that go back to 2004 and earlier,...

Crooks Tap Google Firebase in Fresh Phishing Tactic

A series of phishing campaigns using Google Firebase storage URLs have surfaced, showing that cybercriminals continue to leverage the reputation of Google’s cloud infrastructure to dupe victims and skate by secure email gateways. Google Firebase is a mobile and web application development platfor...

Texas Courts Won't Pay Up in Ransomware Attack

A ransomware attack has hit the information technology office that supports Texas appellate courts and judicial agencies, leading to their websites and computer servers being shut down. The office said that it will not pay the ransom requested by the cybercriminals. Specifically affected is the...

Why Organizations Need to Simplify Cybersecurity

The emergent adoption of cloud services helps organizations drive agility, differentiation, and progress. But like with any technological progress, the cyber risks attached grow right alongside it. This exemplifies that the need for IT leaders to adopt a more holistic, simpler way to manage...

Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security, The W5H – Episode WHAT?

Teaching you to be a Natural Born Pillar! Last week, we took you through the “WHO” of securing a cloud migration here, detailing each of the roles involved with implementing a successful security practice during a cloud migration. Read: everyone. This week, I will be touching on the “WHAT” of...

Why SaaS opens the door to so many cyber threats (and how to make it safer)

Cloud services have become increasingly important to many companies' daily operations, and the rapid adoption of web apps has allowed businesses to continue operating with limited productivity hiccups, even as global coronavirus restrictions have forced much of the world to work from home. But at...

How to transform your revolutionary idea into a reality: $100K Nokia Bell Labs Prize

Revolutionary ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics don't occur every day. But when those "eureka" moments happen, we need to provide a forum to explore those ideas, judge them on their merits, and distinguish the extraordinary from the merely good. Once a year, Nokia Bell La...

How to transform your revolutionary idea into a reality: $100K Nokia Bell Labs Prize

Revolutionary ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics don't occur every day. But when those "eureka" moments happen, we need to provide a forum to explore those ideas, judge them on their merits, and distinguish the extraordinary from the merely good. Once a year, Nokia Bell La...

5 reasons to move your endpoint security to the cloud now

As the world has adopts work from home initiatives, we’ve seen many organizations accelerate their plans to move from on-premises endpoint security and Detection and Response EDR/XDR solutions to Software as a Service versions. And several customers who switched to the SaaS version last year,...

Coronavirus and the Growing Mobile Workforce: Prioritizing Endpoint Security

Editor's Note: Gary Stevens, a technology writer, is posting as a guest author to carbonblack.com Despite the global COVID-19 response and current recommendations for social distancing, institutions, enterprises and businesses still need to function and maintain all necessary operations where...

This Week in Security News: More Than 8,000 Unsecured Redis Instances Found in the Cloud and Wiper Malware Called “Coronavirus” Spreads Among Windows Victims

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about 8,000 Redis instances running unsecured in different parts of the world, even deployed in public clouds. Also, read about a new...

JhoneRAT: Cloud based python RAT targeting Middle Eastern countries

By Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura with contributions from Eric Kuhla. Updated January 17th: the documents do not exploit the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability. Executive Summary Today, Cisco Talos is unveiling the details of a new RAT we have identified we're calling "JhoneRAT." This...

New JhoneRAT Malware Targets Middle East

Researchers are warning of a new remote access trojan RAT, dubbed JhoneRAT, which is being distributed as part of an active campaign, ongoing since November 2019, that targets victims in the Middle East. Once downloaded, the RAT gathers information on the victims’ computers and is also able to...

Tricky Phish Angles for Persistence, Not Passwords

Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user's data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. The phishing lure starts with a link that leads to the real login page for a cloud email and/or file...