Cybersecurity

Balancing cybersecurity with convenience and progress – Help Net Security

Changing approaches to cybersecurity have led to slow but steady progress in defense and protection. Still, competing interests create a growing challenge for cybersecurity decision makers and practitioners, according to CompTIA. The state of cybersecurity Most business and technology professionals feel that cybersecurity is improving, both generally and within their organizations. They also acknowledge that […]

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Chinese Hackers TAG-74 Targets South Korean Organizations in a Multi-Year Campaign

Sep 26, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Malware A “multi-year” Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign has been observed targeting South Korean academic, political, and government organizations. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, which is tracking the activity under the moniker TAG-74, said the adversary has been linked to “Chinese military intelligence and poses a significant threat to academic, aerospace […]

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Hands-on threat simulations: Empower cybersecurity teams to confidently combat threats – Help Net Security

Security processes are increasingly automated which has led some businesses to deprioritize developing their security teams’ defense skills. While antivirus and non-human generated threat detections efficiently identify vulnerabilities, they cannot detect every single threat. With the rising number of cyber-attacks, organizations must make sure they are ready to defend themselves. That means equipping cybersecurity teams […]

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Data Breach Toll Tied to Clop Group’s MOVEit Attacks Surges

Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Incident & Breach Response 2,050 Organizations Affected After Data Stolen From Secure File-Sharing Software Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 25, 2023     Image: Shutterstock The count of organizations affected by the Clop ransomware group’s most recent mass targeting of secure file transfer software doubled last week. […]

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Critical JetBrains TeamCity Flaw Could Expose Source Code and Build Pipelines to Attackers

Sep 26, 2023THNVulnerability / Source Code A critical security vulnerability in the JetBrains TeamCity continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) software could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-42793, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and has been addressed in TeamCity version 2023.05.4 following […]