A report by Red Canary highlighted that cloud account compromises using the MITRE ATT&CK technique T1078.004 surged to the fourth most prevalent technique used by threat actors, impacting three times as many organizations compared to 2022.
Mar 06, 2024The Hacker NewsData Security / Cloud Security Every Google Workspace administrator knows how quickly Google Drive becomes a messy sprawl of loosely shared confidential information. This isn’t anyone’s fault; it’s inevitable as your productivity suite is purposefully designed to enable real-time collaboration – both internally and externally. For Security & Risk Management teams, […]
Data centers are significant drivers of growth in electricity demand. Cloud computing data centers are large facilities that need an incredible amount of electricity to run and maintain, but there are worldwide efforts to move to more sustainable energy. The progress to address climate change with energy sustainability is happening at a slower pace than […]
Feb 06, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Cloud Security Three new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Azure HDInsight’s Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark services that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation and a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) condition. “The new vulnerabilities affect any authenticated user of Azure HDInsight services such as Apache Ambari and Apache Oozie,” […]
Feb 02, 2024The Hacker NewsThreat Intelligence / Cloud Security Cloudzy, a prominent cloud infrastructure provider, proudly announces a significant enhancement in its cybersecurity landscape. This breakthrough has been achieved through a recent consultation with Recorded Future, a leader in providing real-time threat intelligence and cybersecurity analytics. This initiative, coupled with an overhaul of Cloudzy’s cybersecurity […]
Feb 02, 2024NewsroomData Breach / Cloud Security Cloudflare has revealed that it was the target of a likely nation-state attack in which the threat actor leveraged stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access to its Atlassian server and ultimately access some documentation and a limited amount of source code. The intrusion, which took place between November […]
Finnish IT services and cloud hosting provider Tietoevry was hit by a ransomware attack, affecting a data center in Sweden and causing outages for multiple customers, including Filmstaden, Rusta, Moelven, and Grangnården.
Jan 17, 2024NewsroomBotnet / Cloud Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that threat actors deploying the AndroxGh0st malware are creating a botnet for “victim identification and exploitation in target networks.” A Python-based malware, AndroxGh0st was first documented by Lacework in December 2022, with the […]
Microsoft will store all cloud customers’ personal data within the European Union rather than allowing transfers abroad, the company said on Thursday — the latest step in ongoing efforts by cloud providers to navigate varying privacy regulations across jurisdictions. Under the new policy, Microsoft will keep within what it calls the “EU data boundary” all […]