The War on Passwords Enters a Chaotic New Phase

The transition from traditional logins to cryptographic passkeys is getting messy. But don’t worry—there’s a plan...

Threat Source newsletter (April 6, 2023) — Another friendly reminder about supply chain attacks

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. It seems like we cant go a full calendar year without a major supply chain attack. In late 2020 we had the SolarWinds incident which, doesnt that somehow seem like five years ago but also yesterday?, then the REvil ransomware group...

Deep Dive Into 6 Key Steps to Accelerate Your Incident Response

Organizations rely on Incident response to ensure they are immediately aware of security incidents, allowing for quick action to minimize damage. They also aim to avoid follow on attacks or future related incidents. The SANS Institute provides research and education on information security. In th...

Start from zero and scale to zero – Azure Spring Apps consumption plan

We are launching a new way to pay for Azure Spring Apps -- the consumption pricing plan. This plan is now in public preview so you can start creating and deploying apps today. This new plan is super-efficient because you can start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. You get more straightforward...

Breast cancer photos published by ransomware gang

The Russia-linked ALPHV ransomware group, also known as BlackCat, has posted sensitive clinical photos of breast cancer patients--calling them "nude photos"--to extort money from the Lehigh Valley Health Network LVHN. This has triggered a chorus of accusations from the cybersecurity community, wi...

Establishing a Proactive Cybersecurity Plan

To help organizations shift security left, Greg Young, Vice President of Cybersecurity and CorpDev at Trend Micro and Andy Anderson, DataStream CEO and Co-Founder, discuss how IT decision makers can educate the board with a proactive cybersecurity plan...

PT-2023-21162 · Xcat · Xcat

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: xCAT versions prior to 2.16.5 Description: xCAT is a toolkit for deployment and administration of computer clusters. If zones are configured as a mechanism to secure clusters in XCAT, it is possible for a local root user from one node to obta...

US Marshals Service hit by ransomware and data breach

The US Marshals Service USMS says it's suffered a ransomware attack in which a threat actor managed to get hold of sensitive information about staff and fugitives. On February 17, 2023, the attacker infiltrated a system that held information about ongoing investigations, including personally...

Gcore Thwarts Massive 650 Gbps DDoS Attack on Free Plan Client

At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650 Gbps. Attackers exploited over 2000 servers belonging to one of the top three cloud providers worldwide and targeted a client who was using a free CDN plan. However, due to Gcore's...

GoAnywhere zero-day opened door to Clop ransomware

A semi-active ransomware group has claimed it is behind a string of attacks which have taken advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in GoAywhere MFT. The Russian-linked Clop ransomware group says it was able to remotely attack private systems using exposed GoAnywhere MFT administration consoles...

Cybersecurity health and how to stay ahead of attackers with Linda Grasso

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Linda Grasso, the...

SUSE CVE-2007-0556

The query planner in PostgreSQL before 8.0.11, 8.1 before 8.1.7, and 8.2 before 8.2.2 does not verify that a table is compatible with a "previously made query plan," which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service server crash and possibly access database content via an "ALTE...

TrickBot gang members sanctioned after pandemic ransomware attacks

In a collaborative partnership, officials in the United States and the United Kingdom unmasked and imposed financial sanctions against seven members of the notorious Russian gang TrickBot alias "TrickLoader", a mainstream banking Trojan turned malware-as-a-service MaaS platform for other criminal...

OT Cybersecurity Plan to Prevent the 5Ds

Outline a cybersecurity plan to protect your operational technology network by studying the five techniques adversaries use to target them...

Florida hospital takes entire IT systems offline after 'ransomware attack'

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare TMH, a major hospital system in northern Florida, has reportedly been experiencing an "IT security issue" since Thursday evening, which impacted some of its IT systems. When TMH learned of the issue, it took its entire IT systems offline as a precaution and contact...

Hospitals Hit by DDoS Attacks as Killnet Group Targets the Healthcare Sector – What You Need to do Now

The increase in DDoS attacks on healthcare organizations in the US in the last 48 hours by the Pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet has become a serious concern. These types of attacks are designed to overload a network or system with traffic, making it difficult or impossible for users to access...

US Cyber Command Operations During the 2022 Midterm Elections

The head of both US Cyber Command and the NSA, Gen. Paul Nakasone, broadly discussed that first organizations offensive cyber operations during the runup to the 2022 midterm elections. He didnt name names, of course: We did conduct operations persistently to make sure that our foreign adversaries...

Ransomware Recovery Plan for 2023

It’s important to defend against ransomware attacks, but is your organization prepared to deal with the consequences of a breach? Find out how to plan an effective ransomware recovery strategy...

Driving CISA Compliance with Qualys

How CyberSecurity Asset Management with External Attack Surface Management Improves Compliance for the Protection of National Infrastructure Since 2018, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA of the U.S. government has focused on reducing risk and building resilience to cyber a...

Do more with Azure Spring Apps – scale to zero and enhance productivity

In 2020, Spotify coined the term "Golden Path” to refer to a supported approach and set of components to build and deploy software. Having these paths simplifies the development process, lets developers focus on their applications instead of infrastructure and speeds time to production. Microsoft...