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Security experts have uncovered a series of close links between ransomware groups Mount Locker and Astro Locker Team, in a new report that will be of interest to incident responders. Sophos’ Managed Threat Response (MTR) team said it recently dealt with an attack that had all the TTPs of a Mount Locker operation. However, when it followed the link in the ransom note, the researchers were met by a ‘support’ team who introduced themselves as “Astro…

The US authorities are urging Fortinet customers to patch three legacy vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to compromise government, commercial and technology service provider networks. A joint cybersecurity advisory from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday warned that threat actors are actively scanning for devices via ports 4443, 8443 and 10443, with the potential end goals of data theft or ransomware deployment. “The FBI and CISA believe the APT actors…

Security researchers are warning LinkedIn users to beware of unsolicited job offers after revealing a new spear-phishing campaign designed to install Trojan malware on their devices. The eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) yesterday claimed that individuals were being targeted with customized files named the same as their own current role. “Upon opening the fake job offer, the victim unwittingly initiates the stealthy installation of the fileless backdoor, more_eggs. Once loaded, the sophisticated backdoor can download…

Organizations are increasingly turning to containers to fuel their digital transformations. According to BMC, a 2019 survey found that more than 87% of respondents were running containers—up from 55% just two years earlier. Additionally, 90% of survey participants that were running applications in containers were doing so in production. That was up from 84% in 2018 and two-thirds of surveyed IT professionals a year before that. The Benefits and Challenges of Containers According to Kubernetes’…

When it comes to cybersecurity, industrial IT—consisting mainly of operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS)—has failed to keep up with development in the enterprise IT world. That’s mostly because industries’ adoption of internet technology has been slower when compared with enterprises. It would take some time to close the gap, but concerted efforts have already been made to upgrade the security of industrial IT and improve the efficiency of OT and ICS. These…