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minute read Share this article: A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet – that’s actively targeting vulnerable D-Link and Internet of Things devices – is the first variant of the malware to rely on Tor communications, researchers say. Researchers have discovered what they say is the first variant of the Gafgyt botnet family to cloak its activity using the Tor network. Gafgyt, a botnet that was uncovered in 2014, has become infamous for launching large-scale distributed denial-of-...

Informationweek Does DevSecOps Require Observability to Get the Job Done? A panel at DeveloperWeek took a look at potential exposure organizations may face if their DevSecOps cycle does not include observability of apps. The breakneck pace of continuous delivery of apps and software can make it a challenge for security to be included in the development cycle, potentially leaving vulnerabilities overlooked. There may be ways to address this through automated observability that can highlight issu...

Ransomware Attackers Set Their Sights on SaaS Ransomware has begun to target data-heavy SaaS applications, open source, and Web and application frameworks. Ransomware attacks have begun to more heavily target software applications, open source tools, and Web and application frameworks as attackers seek more direct paths to organizations largest and most important data stores.  Related Content: The ransomware threat landscape has seen tremendous growth in the past few years alone, RiskSense res...

David A. Wheeler, the Linux Foundations Director of Open Source Supply Chain Security, explained that in the Orion attack that the malicious code was inserted into Orion by subverting the programs build environment. This is the process in which a program is compiled from source code to the binary executable program deployed by end-users. In this case, the security company CrowdStrike worked out that the Sunspot malware watched the build server for build commands and silently replaced some of Or...

What are Supply Chain Attacks, and How to Guard Against Them The three basic categories of supply chain attacks, why they’re especially devastating, and what can be done to guard against them. Remediation of the fallout from the massive breach of SolarWinds network management tools – which affected up to 18,000 organizations – could cost companies billions. In the breach, the attackers were able to compromise the update process of a widely used piece of SolarWinds software. In cyber...

And the weeks other security news Share Copy In brief A former Cisco employee who went medieval on his former employer and cost the company millions, has been sentenced to two years in prison and a $15,000 fine. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh was employed by Switchzilla for less than two years but left in April 2018. Five months later he used access credentials to get back into Ciscos systems and deleted virtual machines on Webex - borking more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts for two weeks in s...

Disputed PostgreSQL bug exploited in cryptomining botnet PGMiner cryptomining botnet remained unnoticed by exploiting a disputed CVE in PostgreSQL Share this item with your network: By Published: 11 Dec 2020 13:45 A newly discovered Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet exploited a disputed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in PostgreSQL – first disclosed in 2018 and initially assigned CVE-2019-9193 – in order to compromise database servers and co-opt them into the mining ne...

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