RSS_Virtulization

A new organized cybercrime group claims to have stolen sensitive data belonging to a county in Illinois.  St. Clair County disabled its website on June 2 out of “an abundance of caution” after suffering a cyber-attack. Ransomware gang Grief has claimed responsibility for the digital assault.   Because of the incident, several county services were rendered unavailable from May 28, including access to court records and payment for ticket fees.  The county jail’s network was also impacted, with…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, APT29, FluBot, Necro Python, RoyalRoad, SharpPanda, TeaBot 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…

The U.S. Department of Justice was able to trace and recover around half of the ransom payment sent to DarkSide by Colonial Pipeline. Image: Bloomberg/Getty Images Following a series of initiatives designed to combat the growing ransomware threat, the U.S. government pulled off one action that shows what it could do. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that it had managed to recover part of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to its…

There used to be a time when one roommate split the cost of rent with another by writing a check. Who still owns a checkbook these days? Of course, those days are nearly long gone, in large part thanks to “peer to peer” (P2P) mobile payment apps, like Venmo, Zelle, or Cash App. Now with a simple click on an app, you can transfer your friend money for brunch before you even leave the table. Yet for all their convenience, P2P mobile payment apps could cost you a couple of bucks or more if you’re not on…

There used to be a time when one roommate split the cost of rent with another by writing a check. Who still owns a checkbook these days? Of course, those days are nearly long gone, in large part thanks to “peer to peer” (P2P) mobile payment apps, like Venmo, Zelle, or Cash App. Now with a simple click on an app, you can transfer your friend money for brunch before you even leave the table. Yet for all their convenience, P2P mobile payment apps could cost you a couple of bucks or more if you’re not on…

New updates minimize false network alerts, detect data exfiltration and provide comprehensive coverage of IaaS/PaaS services SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — New updates to Prisma® Cloud, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution, help eliminate dangerous cloud blind spots and free security teams from the burden of alert fatigue. These critical features are available to the 2,000+ enterprises that trust Prisma Cloud, as well as future customers. Cloud environments…

Trend Micro case study explains how the new business model works and how the multistep attacks unfold. Image: iStockphoto/nicescene Ransomware attacks are now a team effort that include professional pen testers with malicious intent, access-as-a-service brokers and the ransomware owners who do the negotiation. Bad actors have modernized the business model to design attacks based on a specific company and a ransom fee based on how successful the target is, according to new research from…

Large parts of the internet were temporarily offline today, including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch, it has been reported. Other significant organizations whose websites were affected by the incident included media outlets the Financial Times, The Guardian and New York Times and the UK’s Gov.uk. When users attempted to enter these websites, they were met with messages like “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure.” Experts have traced the issue to a Fastly content delivery network…

(“File:ProofpointToronto.jpg” by Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine is marked with CC0 1.0) Proofpoint on Tuesday announced its new cloud-native Information Protection and Cloud Security Platform that layers in multiple features, including data loss prevention, insider threat management, a cloud app security broker (CASB), zero trust network access, and remote browser isolation. The company’s new cloud platform was developed from its extensive experience managing and analyzing email traffic. Proofpoint claims that every day it analyzes more…