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Lea Kissner appointed as Lacework Chief Information Security Officer 17/05/2023 at 16:44 By With more than 20 years of security industry experience, Lea Kissner has been named the new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Lacework. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Threat Group UNC3944 Abusing Azure Serial Console for Total VM Takeover 17/05/2023 at 15:36 By A financially motivated cyber actor has been observed abusing Microsoft Azure Serial Console on virtual machines (VMs) to install third-party remote management tools within compromised environments. Google-owned Mandiant attributed the activity to a threat group it tracks under the name UNC3944, which is

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Identifying a Patch Management Solution: Overview of Key Criteria 17/05/2023 at 15:36 By Software is rarely a one-and-done proposition. In fact, any application available today will likely need to be updated – or patched – to fix bugs, address vulnerabilities, and update key features at multiple points in the future. With the typical enterprise relying on

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Serious Unpatched Vulnerability Uncovered in Popular Belkin Wemo Smart Plugs 17/05/2023 at 14:17 By The second generation version of Belkin’s Wemo Mini Smart Plug has been found to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be weaponized by a threat actor to inject arbitrary commands remotely. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-27217, was discovered and reported

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State-Sponsored Sidewinder Hacker Group’s Covert Attack Infrastructure Uncovered 17/05/2023 at 14:17 By Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed previously undocumented attack infrastructure used by the prolific state-sponsored group SideWinder to strike entities located in Pakistan and China. This comprises a network of 55 domains and IP addresses used by the threat actor, cybersecurity companies Group-IB and Bridewell said in

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U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Notorious Russian Ransomware Operator 17/05/2023 at 08:29 By A Russian national has been charged and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) for launching ransomware attacks against “thousands of victims” in the country and across the world. Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar), the 30-year-old

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Holiday season sees 550% increase in unique threats 17/05/2023 at 01:25 By API security was studied in a recent report by Cequence Security based on the analysis of API transactions over the second half of 2022. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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New toolkit aimed to strengthen school safety reporting programs 17/05/2023 at 01:25 By CISA and the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center have released a new resource to help K-12 schools strengthen school safety reporting programs.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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Railway Safety Act targets hazardous waste 16/05/2023 at 21:54 By After negotiations, the Railway Safety Act of 2023 has been moved to the Senate floor following the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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U.K. citizen pleads guilty in connection to Twitter hack 16/05/2023 at 21:02 By A U.K. citizen pleaded guilty last week in New York to his role in cyberstalking and other computer hacking schemes, including the July 2020 hack of Twitter. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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Trustwave Threat Hunt Team Uncovers Healthcare Industry Vulnerabilities 16/05/2023 at 20:10 By The healthcare industry has been struck with a growing number of cyberattacks over the last few months, raising concerns in the healthcare industry and in Washington, D.C. The continued onslaught of attacks has raised the question of how healthcare entities can and should

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USPS new safety measures aim to improve employee safety 16/05/2023 at 20:09 By USPS plans to better protect employees and prevent mail theft. USPS workers can be the target of crime as they have access to a variety of buildings. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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China’s Mustang Panda Hackers Exploit TP-Link Routers for Persistent Attacks 16/05/2023 at 20:09 By The Chinese nation-state actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a new set of sophisticated and targeted attacks aimed at European foreign affairs entities since January 2023. An analysis of these intrusions, per Check Point researchers Itay Cohen and Radoslaw Madej,

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Abusing Time-Of-Check Time-Of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Vulnerabilities in Games, Harry Potter Style 16/05/2023 at 17:48 By I feel I need to clarify, for legal reasons, that this is nothing to do with any Harry Potter game. The reference is made because we are dealing with spells and magic, and I mean magic in the literal

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Inside Qilin Ransomware: Affiliates Take Home 85% of Ransom Payouts 16/05/2023 at 16:18 By Ransomware affiliates associated with the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme earn anywhere between 80% to 85% of the ransom payments, according to new findings from Group-IB. The cybersecurity firm said it was able to infiltrate the group in March 2023, uncovering details

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CopperStealer Malware Crew Resurfaces with New Rootkit and Phishing Kit Modules 16/05/2023 at 16:09 By The threat actors behind the CopperStealer malware resurfaced with two new campaigns in March and April 2023 that are designed to deliver two novel payloads dubbed CopperStealth and CopperPhish. Trend Micro is tracking the financially motivated group under the name Water

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Cyolo Product Overview: Secure Remote Access to All Environments 16/05/2023 at 16:09 By Operational technology (OT) cybersecurity is a challenging but critical aspect of protecting organizations’ essential systems and resources. Cybercriminals no longer break into systems, but instead log in – making access security more complex and also more important to manage and control than

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Hackers Using Golang Variant of Cobalt Strike to Target Apple macOS Systems 16/05/2023 at 10:53 By A Golang implementation of Cobalt Strike called Geacon is likely to garner the attention of threat actors looking to target Apple macOS systems. The findings come from SentinelOne, which observed an uptick in the number of Geacon payloads appearing

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Gaming companies must protect IP from exfiltration during development 16/05/2023 at 09:23 By It’s time for companies to take a tough stance on preventing data leakage and cyber theft, and adopt cybersecurity measures during the digital production process. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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4 ways for security to support mental health 16/05/2023 at 09:23 By Mental health support and awareness initiatives can help security leaders proactively mitigate threats and ensure the success of their teams. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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