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Check Point: Hackers Are Dropping USB Drives at Watering Holes

Tech Republic Security

Check Point's Global CISO discusses the firm's 2023 threat intelligence, including new AI malice and threat actors spreading malware by dropping flash drives.

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Was DevOps Tool a Gateway to SolarWinds Attack?

SecureWorld News

JetBrains produces a software called TeamCity, which is used by thousands of customers for continuous integration and development as part of the DevOps process. This enabled the hackers to remotely access some infected systems as well as push more malware and exfiltrate data in a subset of the infected organizations.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

Malvertising acts as a vessel for malware propagation. Scammers and malware operators are increasingly adept at mimicking popular brands in their ad snippets, which makes it problematic for the average user to tell the wheat from the chaff. One of the biggest pitfalls with malvertising is how difficult it can be to detect.

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Scott Lowe

Persistent malware in ESXi hypervisor environments? Jim Counts’ beginner’s guide to Pulumi CI/CD pipelines provides an overview of Pulumi and a guide on using it with Azure DevOps. These are worth a read if security and compliance are your jam (see here , here , here , here , here , here , and here ). The corny (cheesy?)

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Foote Partners: bonus disparities reveal tech skills most in demand in Q3

CIO Business Intelligence

Whatever the reason, some certifications have lost as much as 44% of their value over the last two years, the most devalued being Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: BI Reporting, Avaya Certified Design Specialist, GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM) and SAS Certified Advanced Analytics Professional Using SAS 9.

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Lazarus APT Targeting Cryptocurrency, CISA Warns

SecureWorld News

They use the apps to gain access to the victim's computer and install malware across the network environment, stealing private keys and exploiting other security gaps. The messages often mimic a recruitment effort and offer high-paying jobs to entice the recipients to download malware-laced cryptocurrency applications, which the U.S.

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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

The fenced forensic environment provides a safe location to provide forensic analysis of backup datasets to identify a copy of the data that is free from malware or ransomware and can be safely restored – this copy is often referred to by storage and backup administrators as “a known good copy.”. Set up a fenced forensic environment.

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