Security News > 2021
Recent attacks from Ryuk ransomware operators show that the actors have a new preference when it comes to gaining initial access to the victim network. Security researchers from the threat intelligence boutique Advanced Intelligence observed that Ryuk ransomware attacks this year relied more often on compromising exposed RDP connections to gain an initial foothold on a target network.
Google makes it easy to share text with friends and colleagues with a new Chrome 90 feature that lets you create links to selected text on a web page. This new feature is rolling out now in Chrome 90 and is built on top of Google's "Scroll-To-Text using a URL fragment" feature that they introduced earlier this year and is only available in Chrome.
A large BGP routing leak that occurred last night disrupted the connectivity for thousands of major networks and websites around the world. Although the BGP routing leak occurred in Vodafone's autonomous network based in India, it has impacted U.S. companies, including Google, according to sources.
A high-level manager and systems administrator associated with the FIN7 threat actor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Fedir Hladyr, a 35-year-old Ukrainian national, is said to have played a crucial role in a criminal scheme that compromised tens of millions of debit and credit cards, in addition to aggregating the stolen information, supervising other members of the group, and maintaining the server infrastructure that FIN7 used to attack and control victims' machines.
People talk about the cybersecurity job market like it's a monolith, but there are a number of different roles within cybersecurity, depending not only on your skill level and experience but on what you like to do. Security Engineer: Security engineers are tasked with planning and executing a company's information security strategy and maintaining all security solutions.
It has been a pretty quiet week with only a few large attacks disclosed and only a few new ransomware variants released. The highest-profile attack this week is the NBA's Houston Rockets who were transparent about their ransomware attack.
Dodenhoff will be responsible for Okta's go-to-market strategy, operations, and sales revenue across the global partner ecosystem. "Steve has a strong track record building and scaling global enterprise software companies and solution providers. We're thrilled to have him at the helm of Okta's partner and alliances team, empowering our network of partners, and capturing new opportunities for growth."
To use B follows A, even though we can clearly see A to Z happening all at the same time in parallel and by and large all intetacting all of the time. Look over a time period of two or three times the reciprocol of their difference frequency and you see a near perfect sine way envelop, just as you would expect from amplitude modulation.
Since cyberinsurance is relatively new, some business owners are concerned about what's involved and if it makes sense. Adrian Mak, CEO of AdvisorSmith, a business insurance consulting firm, has pulled together a Cyberinsurance Cost report that looks at what to expect.
The BazarLoader malware is leveraging worker trust in collaboration tools like Slack and BaseCamp, in email messages with links to malware payloads, researchers said. It's been recently seen being used as a staging malware for ransomware, particularly Ryuk.