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Ransomware is up, zero-days are booming, and your IP camera might be next

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Ransomware is up, zero-days are booming, and your IP camera might be next 2025-08-06 at 08:47 By Help Net Security Cyber attackers are finding new ways in through the overlooked and unconventional network corners. Forescout’s 2025H1 Threat Review reveals a surge in advanced tactics, with zero-day exploits up 46 percent and ransomware attacks averaging 20 […]

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Industrial security is on shaky ground and leaders need to pay attention

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Industrial security is on shaky ground and leaders need to pay attention 2025-07-03 at 07:07 By Help Net Security 44% of industrial organizations claim to have strong real-time cyber visibility, but nearly 60% have low to no confidence in their OT and IoT threat detection capabilities, according to Forescout. How confident are you in your

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Compromised SAP NetWeaver instances are ushering in opportunistic threat actors

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Compromised SAP NetWeaver instances are ushering in opportunistic threat actors 2025-05-12 at 16:07 By Zeljka Zorz A second wave of attacks against the hundreds of SAP NetWeaver platforms compromised via CVE-2025-31324 is underway. “[The] attacks [are] staged by follow-on, opportunistic threat actors who are leveraging previously established webshells (from the first zero-day attack) on vulnerable

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Infosec products of the month: April 2025

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Infosec products of the month: April 2025 2025-05-02 at 07:03 By Sinisa Markovic Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: 1touch.io, Abnormal AI, AppViewX, Arctic Wolf Networks, Bitdefender, BitSight, Bugcrowd, Cato Networks, CyberQP, Cyware, Entrust, Exabeam, Flashpoint, Forescout, Index Engines, Jit, LastPass, PlexTrac, PowerDMARC, RunSafe Security, Saviynt,

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New infosec products of the week: April 11, 2025

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New infosec products of the week: April 11, 2025 2025-04-11 at 06:49 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Forescout, Index Engines, Jit, RunSafe Security, and Seal Security. Jit launches AI agents to ease AppSec workload Jit has launched its new AI agents

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Study Identifies 20 Most Vulnerable Connected Devices of 2025

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Study Identifies 20 Most Vulnerable Connected Devices of 2025 2025-04-10 at 15:03 By Ionut Arghire Routers are the riskiest devices in enterprise networks as they contain the most critical vulnerabilities, a new Forescout report shows. The post Study Identifies 20 Most Vulnerable Connected Devices of 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Forescout eyeScope provides organizations with insight into their security posture

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Forescout eyeScope provides organizations with insight into their security posture 2025-04-09 at 16:33 By Industry News Forescout announced new Forescout eyeScope cloud visibility and monitoring solution, expanding the Forescout 4D Platform to the cloud. Forescout also announced a new, small footprint, edge data collector for enterprises that require Forescout’s asset intelligence capabilities managed from the

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China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware

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China-based Silver Fox spoofs healthcare app to deliver malware 2025-02-25 at 18:33 By Zeljka Zorz Silver Fox, a China-based threat actor that may or may not be backed by the Chinese government, has been delivering the ValleyRAT backdoor to unsuspecting users by disguising the malware as legitimate healthcare app (the Philips DICOM viewer), a Windows

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Researchers reveal OT-specific malware in use and in development

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Researchers reveal OT-specific malware in use and in development 2024-12-17 at 16:43 By Zeljka Zorz Malware that’s made specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) control devices is still rare, but in the last few weeks security researchers have identified two salient threats based on samples uploaded

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Maximizing security visibility on a budget

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Maximizing security visibility on a budget 2024-11-05 at 07:03 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Barry Mainz, CEO at Forescout, discusses the obstacles organizations encounter in attaining security visibility, particularly within cloud and hybrid environments. He explains why asset intelligence—going beyond basic visibility to understand device behavior and risk—is essential. Mainz also

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Forescout for OT Security secures OT, IoT, and IT hybrid environments

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Forescout for OT Security secures OT, IoT, and IT hybrid environments 2024-09-19 at 13:31 By Industry News Forescout announced its new SaaS Operational Technologies (OT) solution. Forescout for OT Security is a security solution that allows organizations to secure complex, heterogeneous OT, IoT/IoMT, and IT environments whether they are fully in cloud, completely air-gapped, or

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A macro look at the most pressing cybersecurity risks

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A macro look at the most pressing cybersecurity risks 2024-08-30 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Forescout’s 2024H1 Threat Review is a new report that reviews the current state of vulnerabilities, threat actors, and ransomware attacks in the first half of 2024 and compares them to H1 2023. “Attackers are looking for any weak point

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OpenWrt dominates, but vulnerabilities persist in OT/IoT router firmware

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OpenWrt dominates, but vulnerabilities persist in OT/IoT router firmware 2024-08-07 at 09:16 By Help Net Security Forescout has published a new report examining the current state of the software supply chain in OT/IoT routers. The study uncovered that OT and IoT cellular routers and those used in small offices and homes contain outdated software components

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Global critical infrastructure faces relentless cyber activity

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Global critical infrastructure faces relentless cyber activity 2024-01-29 at 07:01 By Help Net Security In the last year, the world’s critical infrastructure – the medical, power, communications, waste, manufacturing, and transportation equipment that connects people and machines – has been under near-constant attack, according to Forescout. Despite the formidable challenges posed by the ongoing surge

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21 high-risk vulnerabilities in OT/IoT routers found

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21 high-risk vulnerabilities in OT/IoT routers found 06/12/2023 at 12:53 By Help Net Security Forescout detailed the discovery of 21 new vulnerabilities in OT/IoT routers and open-source software elements. The “SIERRA:21 – Living on the Edge” report features research into Sierra Wireless AirLink cellular routers and some open-source components, such as TinyXML and OpenNDS. Sierra

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Why cyber war readiness is critical for democracies

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Why cyber war readiness is critical for democracies 17/11/2023 at 14:02 By Zeljka Zorz Once the war in Ukraine ends, Russia’s offensive cyber capabilities will be directed towards other targets, Rik Ferguson, VP Security Intelligence for Forescout, predicted at IRISSCON on Thursday. Rik Ferguson on stage at IRISSCON 2023 The skills employed, the hacktivists and

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Photos: IRISSCON 2023

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Photos: IRISSCON 2023 16/11/2023 at 17:16 By Zeljka Zorz IRISSCON, the annual cybercrime-themed conference organized by the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service (IRISS), was held in Dublin, Ireland, on November 16, 2023. Here’s a peak on what went down: Deryck Mitchelson, Check Point Rik Ferguson, Forescout Networking Dave Lewis, Cisco Networking Panel with Ciaran

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Rethinking cyber risk: The case against spreadsheets

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Rethinking cyber risk: The case against spreadsheets 10/11/2023 at 08:02 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Christina Hoefer, VP of Global Industrial Enterprise at Forescout, discusses why it is time for manufacturers/OT security leaders to “toss the spreadsheet” regarding their traditional methods of tracking data for cyber risk assessments. She addresses

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Infosec products of the month: August 2023

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Infosec products of the month: August 2023 04/09/2023 at 06:02 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: Action1, Adaptive Shield, Bitdefender, Bitwarden, Forescout, ImmuniWeb, Kingston Digital, LastPass, Lineaje, LOKKER, Menlo Security, MongoDB, Netskope, NetSPI, OffSec, Qualys, SentinelOne, Solvo, SonarSource, SpecterOps, Synopsys, ThreatConnect, Traceable

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New infosec products of the week: August 4, 2023

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New infosec products of the week: August 4, 2023 04/08/2023 at 07:32 By Help Net Security Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Forescout, Menlo Security, Qualys, Sonar, SpecterOps, Synopsys, Traceable AI, and Lineaje. Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released SpecterOps released version 5.0 of BloodHound

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