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Putting The Spotlight on DarkSide Incident responders share insight on the DarkSide ransomware group connected to the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Details continue to emerge about the ransomware attack that hit Colonial Pipeline late last week, forcing the major US pipeline operator to take some systems offline and temporarily halt pipeline operations. The FBI has linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group DarkSide to the attack. Related Content: Colonial Pipeline runs a system spanning 5,500 miles between Houston, Texas, and northern New Jersey, delivering about 45% of the fu...

Pic: Unsplash If you suffer from dry or sensitive skin, you will be familiar with the never-ending search for skincare that works best for you. If you haven’t tried Elave Sensitive Renew yet, you may just find that your search ends there. The award-winning, clean, sustainable, effective and ethical skincare has been made in Ireland by Gardiner Family Apothecary since 1934, and in a huge move for the brand, it has just launched in Dunnes Beauty. “We are delighted with this uniquely Irish beauty partnership, which brings the purest, gentlest skincare for sensitive skin to Dunnes Beauty cust...

This month brought patches for 55 CVEs in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, Skype for Business and Microsoft Lync, Open Source Software, and Exchange Server. Fifty of these vulnerabilities are classified as Important in severity, one as Moderate. One concerning CVE to prioritize is CVE-2021-31166, a critical remote code execution flaw in the HTTP protocol stack with a CVSS score of 9.8. An attack using this would be low in complexity and require no privileges or user interaction, Microsoft says in its disclosure....

This operation, which specifically authorized the activity for email servers in the United States, was announced some six weeks after Microsoft disclosed critical Exchange Server vulnerabilities that have since been used to target thousands of networks around the world. An attacker could chain the flaws together to compromise an exposed server and steal data, among other actions.  These infections commonly start with deploying a Web shell, which adversaries can later use to communicate with target machines and distribute files to infect them with additional malware. While many admins of targ...

PDF Active Directory is a massive and complex attack surface that has long been a prime target for criminals seeking valuable privileges and data. Incident responders find the service is involved in the bulk of attacks they investigate, underscoring major security challenges for defenders. Anurag Khanna and Thirumalai Natarajan Muthiah, both principal consultants with Mandiant Consulting, have been observing Active Directory as an attack vector for more than 10 years. Khanna estimates about 90% of attacks their team investigates involve Active Directory in some form, whether it was the initia...