Western Digital confirms breach, affects My Cloud and SanDisk users

Western Digital, a big brand in digital storage, says it has suffered a "network security incident--potentially ransomware--which resulted in a breach and some system disruptions in its business operations. The company identified the incident on March 26 and said an unnamed third party unlawfully...

Fighting the Good Fight: Life inside the Talos Ukraine Task Unit

As we spoke about in the new ThreatWise TV documentary, "People Matter: A look back on how Cisco Talos has been supporting Ukraine," war isnt something that often appears in an organizations business continuity or disaster recovery plans. In the months leading up to Russias invasion of Ukraine,...

CISOs Are Stressed Out and It's Putting Companies at Risk

Employee well-being has become a primary focus for many businesses. Even before the pandemic, the C-suite was acutely aware of how employee mental health impacts business outcomes. But for cybersecurity professionals, stress has always been a part of the job. A new survey revealed that one of the...

Threat Exposure Management: An Overview

In recent years, the threat landscape has rapidly evolved, resulting in a growing number of cyber security incidents. This has led organizations to focus on the effective management of their threat exposure, as a means of mitigating the risk of cyber attacks. Threat exposure management is a...

Russian Hacker Group Disrupts Relief Efforts for Turkey-Syria Earthquake with DDoS Attacks

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Killnet, a Russian hacker group, disrupted relief efforts for the Turkey-Syria earthquake by carrying out DDoS attacks, taking down the websites of NATO Special Operations Headquarters and Strategic...

Why Cybersecurity Needs to be a Part of Your ESG

What is an ESG? Environmental, social, and corporate governance ESG documentation is a way to visualize and evaluate how an organization is working for the betterment of social goals and how that organization is responding to the cry for greener, more aware, and more responsible, sustainable...

AlmaLinux 8 : postgresql:12 (ALSA-2022:4807)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2022:4807 advisory. postgresql: Autovacuum, REINDEX, and others omit security restricted operation sandbox CVE-2022-1552 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

PostgreSQL 10.x < 10.21 / 11.x < 11.16 / 12.x < 12.11 / 13.x < 13.7 / 14.x < 14.3 Privilege Escalation

The version of PostgreSQL installed on the remote host is 10 prior to 10.21, 11 prior to 11.16, 12 prior to 12.11, 13 prior to 13.7, or 14 prior to 14.3. As such, it is potentially affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability: - Autovacuum, REINDEX, CREATE INDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW,...

Evaluation of cyber activities and the threat landscape in Ukraine

Introduction When the war in Ukraine broke out, many analysts were surprised to discover that what was simultaneously happening in the cyber domain did not match their predictions1. Since the beginning of the fighting, new cyberattacks taking place in Ukraine have been identified every week, whic...

Security for All: How the Rapid7 Cybersecurity Foundation Will Expand Access and Inclusion

Rapid7’s mission is to advance cybersecurity for all — and an essential part of that effort is making the field and its best resources easier to access. That’s why we deliver solutions that meet the needs of large enterprises but can also be deployed and operated by more resource-constrained team...

SolarMarker Malware Uses Novel Techniques to Persist on Hacked Systems

In a sign that threat actors continuously shift tactics and update their defensive measures, the operators of the SolarMarker information stealer and backdoor have been found leveraging stealthy Windows Registry tricks to establish long-term persistence on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm...

Log4Shell Strategic Response: 5 Practices for Vulnerability Management at Scale

This post is co-authored by Blake Cifelli, Senior Advisory Services Consultant. In today’s cybersecurity world, risks evolve faster than we can remediate them. To meet our goals and become resilient to these fast changes, we need the right balance of automation and human interaction. Enabling rap...

Vulnerability Research Highlights 2021

At SonarSource we are constantly improving our code analyzers to help developers write Clean Code. The detection of severe code vulnerabilities plays an important role in this process so that applications are protected from attacks and security breaches. For this same reason, our research team...

Native Tribal Casinos Taking Millions in Ransomware Losses

Ransomware groups have made millions off attacks on native tribal casinos in the U.S., just over the past few months. A notification issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI cybercrime unit, according to a new report from Bleeping Computer, said that ransomware attacks on tribal casinos...

‘Lone Wolf’ APT Uses Commodity RATs

An APT described as a “lone wolf” is exploiting a decades-old Microsoft Office flaw to deliver a barrage of commodity RATs to organizations in India and Afghanistan, researchers have found. Attackers use political and government-themed malicious domains as lures in the campaign, which targets...

UnhookMe - An Universal Windows API Resolver And Unhooker Addressing Problem Of Invoking Unmonitored System Calls From Within Of Your Red Teams Malware

In the era of intrusive AVs and EDRs that introduce hot-patches to the running processes for their enhanced optics requirements, modern adversaries must have a robust tool to slide through these watchguards. The propsed implementation of dynamic imports resolver that would be capable of unhooking...

Clop Raid: A Big Win in the War on Ransomware?

Yesterday’s noisy raid of the Clop ransomware gang in Ukraine was a major win according to most experts throughout the cybersecurity community, who said the moment marks a shift in the international war on ransomware. The raid, according to Ukrainian reports translated by eSpire analysts, include...

Resources for accelerating your Zero Trust journey

For many organizations, 2020 was the year that finally saw remote work become a reality on a global scale. As many people begin transitioning back to the office, many organizations are thinking about how they can transition from a remote workforce to a more permanent hybrid workplace. We recently...

Recent enhancements for Microsoft Power Platform governance

An emerging trend in digital transformation efforts has been the rise of low-code development platforms. Of course, these low-code platforms must be grounded in best-of-breed governance capabilities which include security and compliance features. Without strong governance, the full benefits of...

Taking Inspiration from Our Security Nation in an Otherwise Uninspiring Year

Well, what a year it has been. I won’t waste your time by recapping the many, many difficulties that 2020 has offered us, and instead, I will try to take a slightly different tack. While it has been a challenging for some, truly hellacious year, as we close it out, I’ve been trying out a little...