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Along with usual remote access trojan features, the Borat RAT is a triple threat that can execute ransomware and launch a DDoS attack.

5 Key Questions When Evaluating Software Supply Chain Security Knowing what to ask a potential supplier can minimize risks associated with third-party software vulnerabilities and breaches. Jai Vijayan PDF Software supply chain compromises like the ones SolarWinds disclosed last December and Kaseya in July have become a growing threat. Indeed, cybercriminals appear to have glommed onto the breach-once, infect-many attack model and are ramping up attempts to break into software companies. The trend has raised so much concern that US President Joe Biden made software supply chain security a ke...

Meat processing company JBS paid $11M to settle REvil ransomware attack SHARE Another day and another company has paid a ransom following an attack, a concession that likely will encourage ransomware gangs to target even more companies. Today’s news involves global meat processing company JBS S.A. The company was in the news June 1 after it was struck by a ransomware attack that caused it to suspend operations in North America and Australia. JBS paid an equivalent to $11 million in cryptocurrency to resolve its ransomware issue and openly admits so. “This was a ...

Microsoft Office 365 a Major Supply Chain Attack Vector  Community Chats Webinars Library Performance issues are not the only concern users have about Microsoft Office 365 and Azure cloud services: the office productivity suite also represents a major threat vector and an attractive target for network and supply chain attacks.  On a quantitative level, Office 365 draws over 250 million active users, according to Microsoft statistics. Attackers can thus intuitively guess that a certain percentage of these users lack proper security protection, and as a bonus, often serve as an easy ent...

Researchers fear wider exposure, amidst a tepid response from Experian. A researcher is claiming that the credit scores of almost every American were exposed through an API tool used by the Experian credit bureau, that he said was left open on a lender site without even basic security protections. Experian, for its part, refuted concerns from the security community that the issue could be systemic. Join Threatpost for “Fortifying Your Business Against Ransomware, DDoS & Cryptojacking Attacks” a LIVE roundtable event on Wednesday, May 12 at 2:00 PM EDT for this FREE webinar sponsored by Zo...