It's Time To Untangle the SaaS Ball of Yarn

It's no great revelation to say that SaaS applications have changed the way we operate, both in our personal and professional lives. We routinely rely on cloud-based and remote applications to conduct our basic functions, with the result that the only true perimeter of our networks has become the...

Ransomware Attacks Exploit VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities in Alarming Pattern

Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi infrastructure follow an established pattern regardless of the file-encrypting malware deployed, new findings show. "Virtualization platforms are a core component of organizational IT infrastructure, yet they often suffer from inherent misconfigurations an...

Ongoing Malvertising Campaign leads to Ransomware

Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed an ongoing campaign to distribute trojanized installers for WinSCP and PuTTY via malicious ads on commonly used search engines, where clicking on the ad leads to typo squatted domains. In at least one observed case, the infection has led to the attempted...

Get Weekends Back: Put Chrome CVEs like CVE-2024-5274 on Auto-Patching

On May 9th, Google released an emergency update for its Chrome browser to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2024-4671. The "use after free" vulnerability affects the Visuals component of Chrome, which is responsible for rendering and displaying content. CVE-2024-4671 was identified and...

Malvertising: Fake Popular Software Ads Deliver New MadMxShell Backdoor

By Deeba Ahmed IT professionals are under attack! This article exposes a malicious malvertising campaign targeting IT teams with a novel backdoor named MadMxShell. Learn how attackers use typosquatting and DNS techniques to compromise systems. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original...

How Qualys Supports the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s Vulnerability Management Guidance

NCSC details the importance of having asset management and remediation as key requirements of a successful VM program. “A vulnerability management process shouldn’t exist in isolation. It is a cross-cutting effort and involves not just those working in IT operations, but also security and risk...

ThreatDown achieves perfect score in latest AVLab assessment

ThreatDown has once again earned a perfect score in AVLabs January 2024 real-world malware detection tests, marking the eleventh consecutive quarter in achieving this feat. Let’s delve into the details of the test and how ThreatDown outperformed competitors in exhaustive testing. The AVLab...

How to Prioritize Cybersecurity Spending: A Risk-Based Strategy for the Highest ROI

As an IT leader, staying on top of the latest cybersecurity developments is essential to keeping your organization safe. But with threats coming from all around — and hackers dreaming up new exploits every day — how do you create proactive, agile cybersecurity strategies? And what cybersecurity...

6 Ways to Simplify SaaS Identity Governance

With SaaS applications now making up the vast majority of technology used by employees in most organizations, tasks related to identity governance need to happen across a myriad of individual SaaS apps. This presents a huge challenge for centralized IT teams who are ultimately held responsible fo...

Known ransomware attacks up 68% in 2023

Today, Malwarebytes released its 2024 State of Malware report, detailing six cyberthreats that resource-constrained IT teams should pay attention to in 2024. Top of the list is "Big Game" ransomware, the most serious cyberthreat to businesses all around the world. Big game attacks extort vast...

Webinar recap: Ransomware gangs and Living Off The Land attacks (LOTL)

Discover the intersection of Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS gangs and Living Off The Land LOTL attacks in our latest webinar, now available on-demand, led by cybersecurity experts Ian Thomas, Mark Stockley, and Bill Cozens. The webinar revealed how RaaS gangs use LOTL tactics, leveraging legitimate...

Ransomware reinfections on the rise from improper remediation

Attack. Remediate. Repeat? Speak to any organization infiltrated by ransomware--the most dangerous malware in the world--and theyll be blunt: Theyd do anything to avoid getting hit twice. But ransomware attacks have been ramping up in 2023 and reinfections are occurring all over the globe, forcin...

Living Off the Land (LOTL) attacks: Detecting ransomware gangs hiding in plain sight

Regular readers of our monthly ransomware review read our April edition here know that Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS gangs have been making headlines globally with their disruptive attacks on organizations. Sometimes, though, its not enough to merely know about of the problem. In order to truly...

A Guide to Efficient Patch Management with Action1

It's no secret that keeping software up to date is one of the key best practices in cybersecurity. Software vulnerabilities are being discovered almost weekly these days. The longer it takes IT teams to apply updates issued by developers to patch these security flaws, the more time attackers have...

How Does Threat Exposure Management Optimize Security Posture?

By Waqas Threat Exposure Management is a program that enables IT teams to keep the cybersecurity of the company under control and find critical flaws early. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Does Threat Exposure Management Optimize Security Posture?...

showdoc .properties file upload vulnerability (CNVD-2022-20508)

showdoc is an open source tool for IT teams to share documents online. showdoc versions prior to v2.10.4 are vulnerable to file uploads, which stem from the lack of effective detection of .properties file extensions in the application's file upload feature. An attacker could use this vulnerabilit...

showdoc .m3u8a file upload vulnerability

showdoc is an open source tool for IT teams to share documents online. showdoc versions prior to v2.10.4 contain a file upload vulnerability that stems from the lack of effective detection of .m3u8a file extensions in the application's file upload feature. An attacker could exploit this...

showdoc .aspx file upload vulnerability (CNVD-2022-20513)

showdoc is an open source tool for IT teams to share documents online. showdoc versions prior to v2.10.4 contain a file upload vulnerability that stems from the lack of effective detection of .aspx file extensions in the application's file upload functionality. An attacker could use this...

showdoc has unspecified vulnerabilities (CNVD-2022-20150)

showdoc is open source and a great tool for IT teams to share documents online. showdoc has a security vulnerability and no details of the vulnerability are currently available...

showdoc .aspx file upload vulnerability

showdoc is an open source tool ideal for IT teams to share documents online. showdoc versions prior to v2.10.4 contain a file upload vulnerability, which stems from the lack of valid detection of .aspx file extensions in the application's file upload feature. An attacker could exploit this...