Author: DEFENDEDGE
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Winning the Cyber-Defense Race: Understand the Finish Line
Kerry Matre, Mandiant senior director, clears up misconceptions about the value to business for enterprise cyber-defense. Hint: It’s not achieving visibility. Read more
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Parallels Offers ‘Inconvenient’ Fix for High-Severity Bug
Firm offers guidance on how to mitigate a five-months-old privilege escalation bug impacting Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac and all previous versions. Read more
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Critical Azure Cosmos DB Bug Allows Full Cloud Account Takeover
It’s unclear if Microsoft customers were breached during the months-long period where the #ChaosDB bug in Jupyter Notebooks was exploitable. Read more
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FBI Releases Indicators of Compromise Associated with Hive Ransomware
Original release date: August 27, 2021 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a Flash report detailing indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with ransomware attacks by Hive, a likely Ransomware-as-a-Service organization consisting of a number of actors using multiple mechanisms to compromise business networks, exfiltrate data and encrypt… Read more
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ICSJWG 2021 Fall Virtual Meeting
Original release date: August 27, 2021 The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) will hold the virtual 2021 ICSJWG Fall Meeting, September 21—22, 2021. ICSJWG meetings facilitate relationship building among critical infrastructure stakeholders and owners/operators of industrial control systems, idea exchange regarding critical issues affecting industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity, and information sharing to… Read more
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New SideWalk Backdoor Targets U.S.-based Computer Retail Business
A computer retail company based in the U.S. was the target of a previously undiscovered implant called SideWalk. SideWalk is a modular backdoor that can dynamically load additional modules sent from its command-and-control server. It then makes use of Google Docs as a dead drop resolver, and Cloudflare workers as a command-and-control server. This malware… Read more
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‘Pay Ransom’ Screen? Too Late, Humpty Dumpty – Podcast
Splunk’s Ryan Kovar discusses the rise in supply-chain attacks a la Kaseya & how to get ahead of encryption leaving your business a pile of broken shells. Read more
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F5 Bug Could Lead to Complete System Takeover
The worst of 13 bugs fixed by the August updates could lead to complete system compromise for users in sensitive sectors running products in Appliance mode. Read more
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Cisco Issues Critical Fixes for High-End Nexus Gear
Networking giant issues two critical patches and six high-severity patches. Read more
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Microsoft Breaks Silence on Barrage of ProxyShell Attacks
versions of the software are affected by a spate of bugs under active exploitations. Read more