Webinar: How The Right XDR Can Be a Game-Changer for Lean Security Teams

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Extended detection and response (XDR) is expected to be the future of cybersecurity, merging security technologies with the evolving approach to the way we do cybersecurity. And while many organizations are scrambling to integrate XDR into their cybersecurity strategies – …

Microsoft Exposes Evasive Chinese Tarrask Malware Attacking Windows Computers

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The Chinese-backed Hafnium hacking group has been linked to a piece of a new malware that’s used to maintain persistence on compromised Windows environments. The threat actor is said to have targeted entities in the telecommunication, internet service provider and …

Russian Hackers Tried Attacking Ukraine’s Power Grid with Industroyer2 Malware

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The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday disclosed that it thwarted a cyberattack by Sandworm, a hacking group affiliated with Russia’s military intelligence, to sabotage the operations of an unnamed energy provider in the country. “The attackers attempted to …

FBI, Europol Seize RaidForums Hacker Forum and Arrest Admin

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An international law enforcement operation raided and took down RaidForums, one of the world’s largest hacking forums notorious for selling access to hacked personal information belonging to users. Dubbed Tourniquet, the seizure of the cybercrime website involved authorities from the …

Microsoft Issues Patches for 2 Windows Zero-Days and 126 Other Vulnerabilities

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for the month of April have addressed a total of 128 security vulnerabilities spanning across its software product portfolio, including Windows, Defender, Office, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, and Print Spooler, among others. 10 of the 128 bugs fixed …

Cross-Regional Disaster Recovery with Elasticsearch

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Unsurprisingly, here at Rewind, we’ve got a lot of data to protect (over 2 petabytes worth). One of the databases we use is called Elasticsearch (ES or Opensearch, as it is currently known in AWS). To put it simply, ES is …

Critical LFI Vulnerability Reported in Hashnode Blogging Platform

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Researchers have disclosed a previously undocumented local file inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Hashnode, a developer-oriented blogging platform, that could be abused to access sensitive data such as SSH keys, server’s IP address, and other network information. “The LFI originates in a Bulk …

E.U. Officials Reportedly Targeted with Israeli Pegasus Spyware

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Senior officials in the European Union were allegedly targeted with NSO Group’s infamous Pegasus surveillance tool, according to a new report from Reuters. At least five individuals, including European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, are said to have been singled out in total, …

NGINX Shares Mitigations for Zero-Day Bug Affecting LDAP Implementation

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The maintainers of the NGINX web server project have issued mitigations to address security weaknesses in its Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Reference Implementation. “NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus are not themselves affected, and no corrective action is necessary …

Finding Attack Paths in Cloud Environments

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The mass adoption of cloud infrastructure is fully justified by innumerable advantages. As a result, today, organizations’ most sensitive business applications, workloads, and data are in the cloud. Hackers, good and bad, have noticed that trend and effectively evolved their …