Malware

24 Jan

CYGNVS exits stealth, trumpeting its cyberattack recovery platform

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Cyber recovery startup CYGNVS announced its emergence from stealth today, having raised $55 million in series A funding and created a highly functional “cyber crisis” platform which promises to help organizations recover from major breaches. The company’s product is in its name – CYGNVS says it’s an acronym for Cyber GuidaNce Virtual Space. It’s effectively an all-in-one disaster recovery system for cyberattacks. It provides out-of-band communications between key team members, since corporate networks may become…

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24 Jan

Apple Patches Critical Security Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited In The Wild

Attacks, Malware

The latest versions of the Safari browser, macOS, iOS, and watchOS address several recently discovered vulnerabilities. Not only does Binary Defense recommend that users upgrade their Apple devices to the latest software versions, but the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a notice for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to patch their devices to secure them “against active threats.” https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-fixes-actively-exploited-ios-zero-day-on-older-iphones-ipads/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213597

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24 Jan

Chinese Cybercrime Group Using Golang Code Interpreter to Evade Detection

Attacks, Malware

DragonSpark does not appear to have any notable ties to other Chinese based threat actors. Based on the attacks that the group is carrying out, especially in regards to the locations of the victims as well as the choice of tools primarily developed by Chinese authors, researchers are fairly certain that the group has ties to China. It highly recommended that companies that either have ties to Eastern Asia or do a lot of business…

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24 Jan

P-to-P fraud most concerning cyber threat in 2023: CSI

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

US financial institutions see peer-to-peer fraud and other digital fraud as the biggest cybersecurity concern in 2023. It was cited by 29% of respondents in a survey by Computer Systems Inc. (CSI), followed by data breaches (23%), ransomware (20%) and a breach at a third party (15%).  Industry respondents also expressed concerns over identity theft at 4%, unavailable or unaffordable cyber insurance at 4%, geopolitical risks at 3%, DDoS attacks at 2% and website defacement at…

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24 Jan

CISA Releases Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K–12 organizations from Cybersecurity Threats

Attacks, Insights, Malware

Original release date: January 24, 2023 Today, CISA released Protecting Our Future: Partnering to Safeguard K–12 organizations from Cybersecurity Threats. The report provides recommendations and resources to help K-12 schools and school districts address systemic cybersecurity risk. It also provides insight into the current threat landscape specific to the K-12 community and offers simple steps school leaders can take to strengthen their cybersecurity efforts. The report’s findings state that K-12 organizations need resources, simplicity and…

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24 Jan

ServiceNow to detect open source security vulnerabilities with Snyk integration

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

ServiceNow Vulnerability Response users will now have access to Snyk Open Source, a software composition analysis (SCA) platform designed to help developers find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities and license issues in open source dependencies. Snyk Open Source is backed by the Israeli-US company’s own security intelligence that relies on a combination of public sources, data from the developer community, proprietary expert research, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop AI.  ServiceNow Vulnerability Response is part of ServiceNow Security Operations…

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24 Jan

How passkeys are changing authentication

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Passwords are a central aspect of security infrastructure and practice, but they are also a principal weakness involved in 81% of all hacking breaches. Inherent useability problems make passwords difficult for users to manage safely. These security and useability shortcomings have driven the search for alternative approaches known generally as passwordless authentication. Passkeys are a kind of passwordless authentication that is seeing increasing focus and adoption. They are set to become a key part of…

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24 Jan

Skyhawk launches platform to provide threat detection and response across multi-cloud environments

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Cloud threat detection vendor Skyhawk Security has released a platform designed to address alert fatigue that provides cloud detection and response (CDR) across multi-cloud environments, the company said Tuesday in a statement. The company says the Synthesis platform is being released on a “freemium” basis—the base version is available at no cost, but supplement features can be purchased. Skyhawk claims the platform improves upon products focused on identifying numerous static cloud security misconfigurations by employing…

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24 Jan

Australia fronts International Counter Ransomware Taskforce

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

The International Counter Ransomware Taskforce (ICRTF), envisioned by the International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI), kicked off its operations on Monday with Australia as its inaugural chair and coordinator. The CRI was first brought together in October 2021 with a virtual meeting of 30 countries, facilitated by the US White House National Security Council. In November 2022, a second meeting took place where the following was established by the 37 participating member: Hold ransomware actors accountable for…

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23 Jan

Nvidia targets insider attacks with digital fingerprinting technology

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Nvidia today announced that a digital lab playground for its latest security offering is now available, letting users try out an AI-powered system designed to monitor individual user accounts for potentially hazardous behavior. The idea, according to the company, is to leverage the large amounts of data that many organizations compile anyway about login and data access events on their systems, and use that to train an AI that watches for user accounts to diverge…

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