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Government Agencies Discover New Chinese Malware Strain

SecureWorld News

CISA reports on Chinese malware strain. And it's a malware strain used specifically by the Chinese government. A recent CISA Malware Analysis Report (with contributions from the FBI and DoD), outlines this new malware variant. Check out the complete report here. It's called Taidoor.

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Microsoft Reports on Techniques Used by SolarWinds Hackers

SecureWorld News

Microsoft has released a report that details the techniques used by the SolarWinds threat actor. The attack included the use of malware delivery methods, anti-forensic behavior, and operational security (OPSEC). Microsoft's SolarWinds report. Lateral movement activities were never executed without preparation.

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2015 Cyberthreat Defense Report Reveals Cyberattacks Rising and Confidence Sinking

CTOvision

The more fact-based reports based on forensics are much more important (this brings to mind what John Oliver said about opinions vs facts ). In 2014, 71 percent of respondents’ networks were breached with 22 percent of them victimized six or more times. Phishing, malware, and zero-days top of mind. Waking up to a new reality.

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Ransomware Evolves: Entire Hospital Including Emergency Rooms Disrupted

CTOvision

For more details on the attack see this NBC Los Angles Report. The typical organization already has firewalls, anti virus solutions, encrypted data solutions, data backups, network monitoring and security information management tools to hold data on how all that is working. But still the malware gets in.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. It’s not as simple as just extending traditional firewall capabilities to the cloud. 8 Complexity.

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The Small Business Guide to Information Security

Galido

As a matter of fact, it was reported that each cyber attack costs small business owners $200,000 on average, which is more than enough to put many out of business. One of the best and first things that you should do to ensure information security in your business is to install a firewall. Have the Talent in House, or Develop it.

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‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system

The Verge

If exploited, the vulnerability allows remote code execution on vulnerable servers, giving an attacker the ability to import malware that would completely compromise machines. Nearly every network security system runs some kind of logging process, which gives popular libraries like log4j an enormous reach.

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