One of the biggest questions security professionals get asked is, "I’m just a small company so why would hackers hack me?"
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The second class of attackers are human adversaries. These cybercriminals attack for financial gain, intellectual property, geopolitics, competitive advantage, or partnership with a larger entity. When it comes to targeted attacks, hackers typically follow five key steps:
North Korean Hackers Spreading Trojanized Versions of PuTTY Client Application
A threat with a North Korea nexus has been found leveraging a "novel spear phish methodology" that involves making use of trojanized versions of the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client.
Google-owned threat intelligence firm Mandiant attributed the new campaign to an emerging threat cluster it tracks under the name UNC4034 .
LastPass says hackers had internal access for four days
LastPass says the attacker behind the August security breach had internal access to the company's systems for four days until they were detected and evicted.
While method through which the attacker was able to compromise a Lastpass developer's endpoint to access the Development environment, the investigation found that the threat actor was able to impersonate the developer after he "had successfully authenticated using multi-factor authentication."
Hackers Targeting WebLogic Servers and Docker APIs for Mining Cryptocurrencies
Malicious actors such as Kinsing are taking advantage of both recently disclosed and older security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server to deliver cryptocurrency-mining malware.
The Kinsing actors have also been involved in campaigns against container environments via misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports to launch a crypto miner and subsequently spread the malware to other containers and hosts.
Hackers are using a clever Microsoft Edge malvertising scam | Digital Trends
Malvertising refers to incorporating malware into advertisements, which is exactly what’s happening in this latest Microsoft Edge scam. First spotted by Malwarebytes’ Threat Intelligence Team, the operation seems to have started at least two months ago, if not more.
The scam campaign runs on a really large scale. The attackers supposedly switch between hundreds of different ondigitalocean.app subdomains per day and each one of those subdomains are used to host a scam website intended to scam unsuspecting Edge users.
Hackers Put Ethereum Founder on Italy Ministry Twitter Profile
The Twitter account of Italy's Ecological Transition Ministry was defaced in a cyber attack on Thursday, with institutions connected to the Rome-based government continuing to be targeted by hackers.
The ministry's digital platforms, including its website and social media accounts, have been targeted repeatedly by hackers in recent months, though the underlying infrastructure has resisted the attacks, people familiar with ...
Report: Cloud hackers are only 3 steps away from 'crown jewel' data | VentureBeat
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The massive acceleration in cloud deployment fueled by the pandemic has continued unabated. Gartner predicts that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow 20.4% to total $497.4 billion in 2022 and expects it to reach nearly $600 billion in 2023.
Log4j Vulnerability Exploited by Lazarus Hackers for Cyber Espionage; Targets Are Energy Companies ...
Some security researchers have projected that the Log4j vulnerability will continue to be an issue for a decade or more, given how difficult it is to find and patch every instance of it nested deep within software packages.
The Lazarus hackers are generally in pursuit of profit, used to fund the hermit kingdom’s government; some estimates have its recent income from hacking rivaling what it generally makes from trade. But in this case, the main interest appears to be cyber espionage.
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