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Budworm Hackers Resurface with New Espionage Attacks Aimed at U.S. Organization
An advanced persistent threat APT actor known as Budworm targeted a U.S.-based entity for the first time in more than six years, according to latest research. The attack was aimed at an unnamed U.S. state legislature, the Symantec Threat Hunter team, part of Broadcom Software, said in a report...
Omnicell Healthcare Company Confirms Ransomware Incident
In a US SEC Securities and Exchange Commission 8-K filing, Omnicell, the healthcare technology provider, revealed that some of its products, services, and internal systems were affected by ransomware. Upon detecting the incident, the medication management systems provider took immediate action to...
North Korean Hackers Weaponizing Open-Source Software in Latest Cyber Attacks
A "highly operational, destructive, and sophisticated nation-state activity group" with ties to North Korea has been weaponizing open source software in their social engineering campaigns aimed at companies around the world since June 2022. Microsoft's threat intelligence teams, alongside LinkedI...
Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide
63% of c-level executives in the US don’t have an incident response plan yet 50% of organizations experience a cyberattack. Explore incident response services and playbooks to strengthen your cyber defenses...
The Types of Phishing Attacks and How to Dodge All of Them
By Owais Sultan Phishing scams are sneaky and often difficult to detect. These types of cyber attacks involve cybercriminals sending emails,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Types of Phishing Attacks and How to Dodge All of Them...
Russian Sandworm Hackers Impersonate Ukrainian Telecoms to Distribute Malware
A threat cluster linked to the Russian nation-state actor tracked as Sandworm has continued its targeting of Ukraine with commodity malware by masquerading as telecom providers, new findings show. Recorded Future said it discovered new infrastructure belonging to UAC-0113 that mimics operators li...
Talos EMEA Monthly Threat Update: How do you know if cyber insurance is right for you?
On September's edition of the Monthly EMEA Threat Update, Hazel Burton and Martin Lee break down cyber insurance. Although many businesses and organizations will think insurance will only help them in a worst-case scenario, that worst-case scenario comes for us all eventually. Martin and Hazel...
Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 25, 2022) — We're still not talking about Ukraine enough
By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was once the most talked about story in the world. Six months into the conflict, modern attention spans have moved on to other news stories. But Ukraine Independence Day yesterday should...
Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 11, 2022) — All of the things-as-a-service
By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Everyone seems to want to create the next “Netflix” of something. Xbox’s Game Pass is the “Netflix of video games.” Rent the Runway is a “Netflix of fashion” where customers subscribe to a rotation of fancy clothes. A...
Improve Threat Detection & Response with OCSF
New open source initiative helping organizations to detect and respond to cyber-attacks faster and easier...
Ukrainian Website Threat Landscape Throughout 2022
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 20, 2022. By mid-March it was clear the cyber-war had begun, and the attacks have been consistent ever since. Prior to this, on March 1, 2022, Wordfence reported on an attack campaign on Ukrainian university websites. In response, we deployed our...
On-Demand Webinar: New CISO Survey Reveals Top Challenges for Small Cyber Security Teams
The only threat more persistent to organizations than cyber criminals? The cyber security skills crisis. Nearly 60% of enterprises can't find the staff to protect their data and reputations! from new and emerging breeds of cyber-attacks, reports the Information Systems Security Association ISSA i...
Researchers Warns of Large-Scale AiTM Attacks Targeting Enterprise Users
A new, large-scale phishing campaign has been observed using adversary-in-the-middle AitM techniques to get around security protections and compromise enterprise email accounts. "It uses an adversary-in-the-middle AitM attack technique capable of bypassing multi-factor authentication," Zscaler...
Universities Put Email Users at Cyber Risk
Top U.S. universities are among the worst in the world at protecting users from email fraud, lacking security measures to prevent common threat tactics such as domain spoofing or other types of fraudulent emails, researchers have found. Ninety-seven percent of the top 10 universities in the Unite...
Attackers target Ukraine using GoMet backdoor
Executive summary Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, Ukrainians have been under a nearly constant barrage of cyber attacks. Working jointly with Ukrainian organizations, Cisco Talos has discovered a fairly uncommon piece of malware targeting Ukraine — this time aimed at a large software...
Experts Notice Sudden Surge in Exploitation of WordPress Page Builder Plugin Vulnerability
Researchers from Wordfence have sounded the alarm about a "sudden" spike in cyber attacks attempting to exploit an unpatched flaw in a WordPress plugin called Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. Tracked as CVE-2021-24284, the issue is rated 10.0 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system a...
5 Questions You Need to Ask About Your Firewall Security
Often, organizations think of firewall security as a one-and-done type of solution. They install firewalls, then assume that they are "good to go" without investigating whether or not these solutions are actually protecting their systems in the best way possible. "Set it and forget it!" Instead o...
Today’s SOC Strategies Will Soon Be Inadequate
New research sponsored by Rapid7 explores the momentum behind security operations center SOC modernization and the role extended detection and response XDR plays. ESG surveyed over 370 IT and cybersecurity professionals in the US and Canada – responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and utilizing...
‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade
Russia-linked cyber collective Killnet has claimed responsibility for DDoS attacks Monday on the Lithuanian government and other entities in the Baltic country over closure of transit routes within the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to researchers. The threat group warns that it will...
APT Hackers Targeting Industrial Control Systems with ShadowPad Backdoor
Entities located in Afghanistan, Malaysia, and Pakistan are in the crosshairs of an attack campaign that targets unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers as an initial access vector to deploy the ShadowPad malware. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which first detected the activity in mid-October...