Threat actor "Velvet Ant" has been exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco's NX-OS Software for managing a variety of switches, executing commands and dropping custom malware.
| | | LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY | | Patch Now: Cisco Zero-Day Under Fire From Chinese APT Threat actor "Velvet Ant" has been exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco's NX-OS Software for managing a variety of switches, executing commands and dropping custom malware. Passkey Redaction Attacks Subvert GitHub, Microsoft Authentication Adversary-in-the-middle attacks can strip out the passkey option from login pages that users see, leaving targets with only authentication choices that force them to give up credentials. Fintech Frenzy: Affirm & Others Emerge as Victims in Evolve Breach A ransomware attack has become a supply chain issue, thanks to the victim's partnerships with other financial services companies. PTC License Server Bug Needs Immediate Patch Against Critical Flaw Creo Elements/Direct License Servers, which enable industrial design and modeling software, are exposed to the Internet, leaving critical infrastructure vulnerable to remote code execution. Stress-Testing Our Security Assumptions in a World of New & Novel Risks Categorizing and stress-testing fundamental assumptions is a necessary exercise for any leader interested in ensuring long-term security and resilience in the face of an uncertain future. Cyber Workforce Numbers Rise for Larger Organizations Some organizations are also reaching record-high levels of cyber maturity, at 80% to 90%. MORE NEWS / MORE COMMENTARY | | | | | HOT TOPICS | Dark Reading Confidential: Meet the Ransomware Negotiators
Episode 2: Incident response experts-turned-ransomware negotiators Ed Dubrovsky, COO and managing partner of CYPFER, and Joe Tarraf, chief delivery officer of Surefire Cyber, explain how they interact with cyber threat actors who hold victim organizations' systems and data for ransom. Among their fascinating stories: how they negotiated with cybercriminals to restore operations in a hospital NICU where lives were at stake, and how they helped a church, where the attackers themselves "got a little religion."
Prudential Data Breach Victim Count Soars to 2.5M
The company seemingly underestimated the severity of the breach after originally providing a head count of roughly 36,000 impacted individuals.
Thinking About Security, Fast & Slow
To be effective, managing risk demands both fast responses and strategic thinking.
'RegreSSHion' Bug Threatens Takeover of Millions of Linux Systems
The high-severity CVE-2024-6387 in OpenSSH is a reintroduction of a 2006 flaw, and it allows unauthenticated RCE as root.
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