A new report by The Associated Press says the FBI didn't notify many U.S. officials when their personal emails were targeted by Russian hackers. Investigative reporter Desmond Butler joins "Red & Blue" to discuss the AP's investig
Implementing comprehensive access control monitoring can help organizations detect and prevent unauthorized access attempts to critical systems. Tactic: Deploy detailed logging of all access attempts to sensitive systems and data. Regularly review access logs for suspicious patterns. Implement automated alerts...
Mueller described Russia's attempts at interference as "sweeping and systematic in fashion" on the first page of the report, which will likely stand as the definite source of U.S. understanding for how Moscow uses its cyber tools to influence American voters and elections. S...
Figure 2. A bogus "online scanner" that attempts to persuade visitors to install rogue security software family Win32/FakeXPA 19 Microsoft Security Intelligence Report In other cases, rogue security software is installed by different malware or masquerades as another kind of program. Once installed...
Exploits targeting network services, such as the Server service, can generate large numbers of detections by real-time antimalware products: 23 a worm traversing a network may make repeated attempts to infect an individual computer using the exploit, with each unsuccessful attempt logged...
While the current trial failed due to help from the National Cyber Directorate, Profero and CyberSky, there is no telling whether future attempts will be more sophisticated. It has been recommended that companies who want to prevent such damage should make use of the EDR system, update servers ...
Social engineering in its many forms took center stage in Q3 2023. The quarter saw “human hacking” evolve from a long-standing security challenge to threat actors’ method of choice. This was evidenced by our observations of the dramaticescalation of social engineering tactics...
The good news about this particular threat is that the bug was privately disclosed to Microsoft allowing the company to make a patch in due time and prevent any abuse by criminal collectives. Well, to this date, no information is available about any hacking attempts that have facilitated with ...
Rather, it could be a result of the increased sophistication of BEC emails in evading antispam rules, with which we were able to keep pace: Trend Micro Cloud App Security detected and blocked a greater proportion of BEC attempts through authorship an...
is compiled in the Go programming language and can execute on multiple operating systems. Sysrv attempts to download the loader from a .sh file, which indicates the attack was aimed at Linux systems. This botnet has multiple exploits and mines the cryptocurrency Monero using XMRig after compromisin...