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The Register
Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi tells us what's needed to defend vital networks Take a glance at the cybersecurity headlines of late, and you'll see a familiar phrase that keeps cropping up: Critical infrastructure. … Interview
ZDNet Security
Graham Cluley
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? A company in Hong Kong suffers a sophisticated deepfake duping, be one your guard from pig butchers as Valentine's Day approaches, and spare a moment to feel sorry for poor ransomware gangs. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Lianne Potter from the "Compromising Positions" podcast.
The Hacker News
Poorly secured Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) servers are being targeted in the U.S., European Union, and Latin American (LATAM) regions as part of an ongoing financially motivated campaign to gain initial access. “The analyzed threat campaign appears to end in one of two ways, either the selling of ‘access’ to the compromised host, or the ultimate delivery of ransomware payloads,” Securonix researchers
The Register
Headline-grabbing takedowns are nice, but long-term solutions require short-term sacrifices In some ways, the ransomware landscape in 2023 remained unchanged from the way it looked in previous years. Vendor reports continue to show a rise in attacks, major organizations are still getting hit, and the inherent issues that enable it as a business model remain unaddressed.… Comment
The Hacker News
Poorly secured Linux SSH servers are being targeted by bad actors to install port scanners and dictionary attack tools with the goal of targeting other vulnerable servers and co-opting them into a network to carry out cryptocurrency mining and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. "Threat actors can also choose to install only scanners and sell the breached IP and account credentials on
Dark Reading
Adopting these recommendations will help SMBs and public-sector agencies that must deal with the same questions of network security and data safety as their larger cousins, but without the same resources.
Dark Reading
Relatively few organizations have the resources for security programs and security professionals, so the US cyber agency is putting programs in place to help them, while striving to understand the scope of the problem itself.
Dark Reading
Vulnerable MS-SQL database servers have external connections and weak account credentials, researchers warn.
The Register
How's the saying go? $50m here, $50m there, pretty soon you're talking real money The liquidators picking over the remains of FTX have released their first formal report into the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire – and it somehow appears things are even worse than was initially believed.…