Implementing the Least Privilege Principle to Safeguard Your Assets

By Owais Sultan The least privilege principle is a crucial concept in cybersecurity that involves granting users the minimum level of… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Implementing the Least Privilege Principle to Safeguard Your Assets...

Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun. Secrets, Secrets (Stored in Plain Text Files) Hurt Someone

Secrets are meant to be hidden or, at the very least, only known to a specific and limited set of individuals or systems. Otherwise, they aren't really secrets. In personal life, a secret revealed can damage relationships, lead to social stigma, or, at the very least, be embarrassing. In a...

MITRE Unveils Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses of 2023: Are You at Risk?

MITRE has released its annual list of the Top 25 "most dangerous software weaknesses" for the year 2023. "These weaknesses lead to serious vulnerabilities in software," the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA said. "An attacker can often exploit these vulnerabilities to tak...

Detect and Prioritize Identity-Related Cloud Risk with InsightCloudSec

In modern cloud environments, roles and permissions are assigned not just to human users, but to machines, resources and services, as well. The massive scale of cloud environments leads to teams potentially managing millions of distinct identities. As a result, security teams often struggle to...

AlienFox Malware Targets API Keys and Secrets from AWS, Google, and Microsoft Cloud Services

A new "comprehensive toolset" called AlienFox is being distributed on Telegram as a way for threat actors to harvest credentials from API keys and secrets from popular cloud service providers. "The spread of AlienFox represents an unreported trend towards attacking more minimal cloud services,...

New Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Uncovered — EmojiDeploy for RCE Attacks

A new critical remote code execution RCE flaw discovered impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure could be exploited by a malicious actor to completely take control of a targeted application. "The vulnerability is achieved through CSRF cross-site request forgery on the ubiquitous SC...

Why Do User Permissions Matter for SaaS Security?

Earlier this year, threat actors infiltrated Mailchimp, the popular SaaS email marketing platform. They viewed over 300 Mailchimp customer accounts and exported audience data from 102 of them. The breach was preceded by a successful phishing attempt and led to malicious attacks against Mailchimp'...

Why Do User Permissions Matter for SaaS Security?

Earlier this year, threat actors infiltrated Mailchimp, the popular SaaS email marketing platform. They viewed over 300 Mailchimp customer accounts and exported audience data from 102 of them. The breach was preceded by a successful phishing attempt and led to malicious attacks against Mailchimp'...

Introducing Azure Least Privilege: Enforce least privilege access for Azure environments

Wiz extends its CIEM capabilities to enable least privilege access for Azure environments...

US agencies issue warning about DAIXIN Team ransomware

The FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the Department of Health and Human Services HHS have issued a joint advisory about DAIXIN Team, a fledgling ransomware and data exfiltration group that has been targeting US healthcare. First spotted in June 2022, the DAIXIN Team...

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk VantagePoint

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.9 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Rockwell Automation Equipment: FactoryTalk VantagePoint software Vulnerabilities: Improper Access Control, SQL Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow...

The 5-Question Test to Assess Your Readiness to Manage Insider Threats

An insider threat is a cyber security risk that originates from within any organization that is being targeted by attackers. Often, insider threats involve a current or former employee, or business associate, who has access to sensitive information or privileged accounts, and who misuses this...

5 Keys To Successful Least Privilege Policy Implementation

By Waqas This article discusses essential keys to successfully implementing the least privilege policy. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 Keys To Successful Least Privilege Policy Implementation...

Malicious IIS Extensions Gaining Popularity Among Cyber Criminals for Persistent Access

Threat actors are increasingly abusing Internet Information Services IIS extensions to backdoor servers as a means of establishing a "durable persistence mechanism." That's according to a new warning from the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, which said that "IIS backdoors are also harder to...

How to improve risk management using Zero Trust architecture

“Compliance is all about risk management and lessening risk, and the same is true of Zero Trust.” —Abbas Kudrati Whats risk management and why is it important? Risk management, the process of developing a strategy for addressing risk throughout its lifecycle, normally involves four phases: risk...

How to improve risk management using Zero Trust architecture

“Compliance is all about risk management and lessening risk, and the same is true of Zero Trust.” —Abbas Kudrati Whats risk management and why is it important? Risk management, the process of developing a strategy for addressing risk throughout its lifecycle, normally involves four phases: risk...

Government Agencies Warn of Increase in Cyberattacks Targeting MSPs

Multiple cybersecurity authorities from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S. on Wednesday released a joint advisory warning of threats targeting managed service providers MSPs and their customers. Key among the recommendations include identifying and disabling accounts that are ...

Strengthening Cybersecurity of SATCOM Network Providers and Customers

Summary Updated May 10, 2022: The U.S. government attributes this threat activity to Russian state-sponsored malicious cyber actors. Additional information may be found in a statement from the State Department . For more information on Russian malicious cyber activity, refer to...

Five Eyes Alliance Advisory & Using Threat Intelligence

Trellix Global Defenders: Five Eyes Alliance Advisory and Using Threat Intelligence to Protect Against Future Attacks By Taylor Mullins · May 6, 2022 Evolving intelligence continues to indicate that the Russian government is exploring options to launch cyberattacks in retaliation against...

Rockwell Automation ISaGRAF5 Runtime Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information (CVE-2020-25178)

ISaGRAF Workbench communicates with Rockwell Automation ISaGRAF Runtime Versions 4.x and 5.x using TCP/IP. This communication protocol provides various file system operations, as well as the uploading of applications. Data is transferred over this protocol unencrypted, which could allow a remote...