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All alerts mean something, even if it’s just that an employee needs more training. The threat of breach is constant, and those companies who make assumptions about alerts could be in big trouble. Image: kerly chonglor/Shutterstock The topic of false positives in the security realm is one that’s been on my mind lately as a harried system administrator. A false positive entails an alert about a problem which is actually not a problem, is a…

A California healthcare provider is informing more than 147,000 people that their personal data may have been exposed in a recent cyber-attack. Scripps Health, which operates five acute-care hospitals in San Diego, among other facilities, took most of its network offline after detecting a ransomware infection at the beginning of May.  The San Diego–based nonprofit system suspended access to several applications, including MyScripps and scripps.org.  While the majority of Scripps’ network has now been restored, the attack caused…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: Agrius, Conti, North Korea, JSWorm, Nobelium, Phishing, Strrat and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending…

Security pros discuss the most typical ways attackers leverage Microsoft 365 and share their guidance for defenders. (Image: phloxii via Adobe Stock) As more organizations have grown reliant on Microsoft 365, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services, cybercriminals have begun to realize that the shift benefits them and are consequently tailoring their attacks to take advantage of the major cloud platforms in use by organizations.  More than 59.8 million messages from Microsoft 365 targeted thousands…

 internet population in Canada is the highest it has been, topping the charts at 33 million. That number is only expected to increase through the upcoming years. However, this growing number and continued adoption of online services pose increasing cybersecurity risks as cybercriminals take advantage of more online users and exploit vulnerabilities in online infrastructure. This is why we need AI-backed software to provide advanced protection for online users.    The nature of these online threats is ever-changing, making it difficult for legacy threat detection systems to…