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SnakeKeylogger Infection Spreading
The Register highlighted an alert from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs this month regarding increased detections of SnakeKeylogger, a keyboard logger. SnakeKeylogger, aka KrakenKeylogger, is a Microsoft .NET-based stealer already known for credential theft and keylogging capabilities. Read more
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SLUBStick New Linux Kernal Cross-Cache Attack
A hypothetical attack to a kernel vulnerability is worth monitoring. As SecureWeek suggests, a new demonstrated Linux Kernal Cross-Cache Attack raises the threat level to dangerous. According to researchers from Graz University of Technology, tests prove the attack to be successful 99% of time – up from 40% of other known heap attacks. No solution… Read more
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Microsoft DDoS Protection Pours Fuel on the DDoS Fire
According to Bleeping Computer, a nine-hour global outage in Microsoft services was attributed to a distributed denial of service attack and an implementation flaw in their DDoS Protection services. A Microsoft report on ID KTV1-HWS states that the Azure Front Door (AFD) and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) first detected the availability issue. Unfortunately, error… Read more
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Data Breach Cost Jumps
Help Net Security recently discussed the findings from IBM, raising the average cost of a data breach to $4.88 million. The majority (70%) of surveyed organizations reported significant to very significant impact. While the root cause for the impact certainly varies, a big concern is staffing. Many believe the innovative automation, such as the application… Read more
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