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US Pulls Back Curtain on Russian Cyber Operations Twitter Get Permission While the Biden administration is betting that the latest round of sanctions against Russia will help deter the countrys cyber operations, several U.S. agencies, including the National Security Agency, used the sanctions announcement as an opportunity to pull back the curtain on the tactics of Russias Foreign Intelligence Service. Russias Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday denied that the country was involved in the...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland arrives to address the staff on his first day at the Department of Justice March 11, 2021 in Washington, DC. The decision by Justice to dismantle ‘hundreds’ of web shells installed using Exchange Server vulnerabilities is being hailed as a landmark use of a new authority. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images) The decision by the Department of Justice announced Tuesday to dismantle ‘hundreds’ of web shells installed using Exchange Se...

In a related announcement, the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and the Department of Homeland Securitys Cyber Security & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today issued a joint advisory warning of the SVR actively targeting widely deployed network and communication technologies on US networks from companies such as Fortinet, Pulse Secure, Citrix, and VMware. The actions mark the first time the US government has formally named a Russian intelligence agency as the perpetrator of the Solar...

); //]]>//--> By Jack M. Germain Feb 16, 2021 5:00 AM PT Some cybersecurity experts agree with a report by Cybersecurity Ventures and expect financial damages from cybercrime to reach $6 trillion by the end of this year. Industry studies show that cyberattacks are among the fastest-growing crimes in the United States. Cyberattacks are absolutely on the rise. Based on everything we know and every single analyst we have spoken with, there is no doubt that attacks are increasing, according to Robe...

Enterprises Remain Riddled With Overprivileged Users -- and Attackers Know It Attackers commonly focus on finding users with too much privileged access as their ticket to network compromise. What can companies do? Recent breaches have underscored the dangers of overprivileged user accounts and software processes, highlighting the need for companies to discover and mitigate the privileged accounts that could be used by attackers to further compromise important systems and applications.  Last mo...

Enterprises Remain Riddled With Overprivileged Users -- and Attackers Know It Attackers commonly focus on finding users with too much privileged access as their ticket to network compromise. What can companies do? Recent breaches have underscored the dangers of overprivileged user accounts and software processes, highlighting the need for companies to discover and mitigate the privileged accounts that could be used by attackers to further compromise important systems and applications.  Last mo...

CISA Orders Agencies to Recheck for Exchange Compromises Twitter Get Permission The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is ordering federal executive branch agencies to rescan and recheck their networks by Monday for any signs of compromise related to unpatched vulnerabilities in on-premises Microsoft Exchange email servers. In addition, the agencies have until June 28 to implement CISAs recommended steps to harden their infrastructure against attacks. Exchange Server Flaws Micro...

Global Survey Finds 71% of Cloud Users Suffered on Average Seven Malicious Account Takeovers in Last Year Vectra AI released its global survey of 1,112 security professionals working in mid to large sized organizations using Microsoft Office 365. The results confirm that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud migration and digital transformation amongst 88% of companies and that 71% of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered an account takeover of a legitimate user’s account, n...

71 percent of Office 365 users suffer malicious account takeovers New research from network detection and response company Vectra AI shows that 88 percent of companies have accelerated their cloud and digital transformation projects due to COVID-19. But it also finds that 71 percent of Microsoft Office 365 deployments have suffered an account takeover of a legitimate users account, not just once, but on average seven times in the last year. Worryingly only one in three security professionals be...

); //]]>//--> By Jack M. Germain Feb 16, 2021 5:00 AM PT Some cybersecurity experts agree with a report by Cybersecurity Ventures and expect financial damages from cybercrime to reach $6 trillion by the end of this year. Industry studies show that cyberattacks are among the fastest-growing crimes in the United States. Cyberattacks are absolutely on the rise. Based on everything we know and every single analyst we have spoken with, there is no doubt that attacks are increasing, according to Robe...