Notorious botnet Emotet is reportedly testing out new attack methods that bypass new Microsoft protections against Macros in Office documents and leverage OneDrive URLs and PowerShell. The Emotet botnet began its reemergence in November 2021 after its January 2021 takedown by a multinational coalition of law enforcement, with the group associated with the botnet targeting […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Cybersecurity Program Office of Information Security warned healthcare facilities on Thursday about vulnerabilities to insider threats. HHS cited a 2020 study from Ponomon, which found that 61% of data breaches involving an insider are primarily unintentional, caused by negligent insiders. Nearly 14% of breaches, however, are […]
Microsoft is beginning the final phase of disabling SMB1 in Windows, announcing that SMB1 is now disabled by default for Windows 11 Home Insiders, and the company will remove the SMB1 binaries and the drivers and DLLs of SMB1 in future releases. In a Tech Community blog, Ned Pyle, a principal program manager in the […]
Although the IT software supply chain and the technologists tasked with using those tools to keep organizations safe from cyberattacks continue to innovate, hackers are also adapting their techniques to target and infiltrate organizations’ IT environments, according to cybersecurity firm Mandiant’s M-Trends report. The company’s M-Trends 2022 report, based on investigational metrics between Oct. 1 […]
As the healthcare industry accelerates into an increasingly digitized world, cyber breaches exposing confidential patient data are becoming more commonplace. In fact, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ breach portal, a staggering 44,993,618 healthcare records were exposed or stolen in 2021. The implications of these security breaches are […]
Recent IT supply chain attacks such as the SolarWinds compromise, ransomware campaign that leveraged the Kaseya VSA platform or mass exploitation of the Log4j vulnerabilities have renewed focus on such attacks, which NCC Group says increased by 51% in the last half of 2021. The consulting and managed services firm’s global survey of 1,400 cybersecurity […]
Microsoft’s new unified Defender for Endpoint solution for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 is now generally available. According to Microsoft, this adds new prevention, detection and response capabilities to Defender for Endpoint on those versions that were previously only available on Windows Server 2019 and later. The new unified Defender reduces complexity […]
Mandiant and CrowdStrike, two of the largest cybersecurity providers, are teaming up to help joint customers investigate, remediate and defend against advanced cybersecurity threats, with Mandiant using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and subscription offerings for its incident response services. The partnership between the two cybersecurity giants will enable organizations of all sizes to leverage both […]
If the fourth quarter for 2021 is any indication, 2022 will be another year that cybersecurity and IT professionals would want to forget, as advanced network attacks increase by 33% in the fourth quarter, indicating a higher level of zero day threats than ever before, reports WatchGuard Technologies. In a new analysis of the fourth […]
Microsoft has announced the general availability of new response actions in Microsoft Defender for Identity for on-premises Active Directory accounts when an identity is compromised and simultaneously protect identities across cloud and on-premise environments. According to Microsoft, the core components of an identity security product should work to prevent malicious actions, detect them, investigate and […]
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