SecurityWeek reports that reconnaissance scanning was conducted by almost 1.3 million IP addresses on Jan. 6, representing a substantial surge in botnet scanning from the 43,000 devices and more than 35,000 devices observed on Dec. 20 and Dec. 8, respectively, which were significantly higher than the average 10,000 to 20,000 devices observed to conduct scans daily.
The U.S., Australia, India, and the UK are having their government institutions subjected to new attacks by Chinese advanced persistent threat operation Volt Typhoon leveraging a pair of critical vulnerabilities in end-of-life Cisco small business RV320/325 VPN routers, tracked as CVE-2019-1652 and CVE-2019-1653, according to SecurityWeek.
BleepingComputer reports that major organizations are having their employees targeted by new phishing attacks exploiting messages concerning annual Human Resources department tasks to facilitate credential exfiltration activities.
Jared would like to discuss the evolution of purple teaming. Put bluntly, he believes traditional purple team approaches don’t test enough variations of attack techniques, delivering a false sense of detection coverage. He would like to talk about: The shortcomings of red team assessments and why most purple team assessments are too limited. How th...
After adding 267,000 IT jobs in 2022, the U.S. only had an additional 700 jobs last year amid massive layoffs that were also accompanied by organizations' course correction after overhiring due to the pandemic and the increasing implementation of artificial intelligence in certain positions, The Register reports.
Newly emergent stealthy remote access trojan Silver RAT has been aggressively marketed by suspected Syrian threat operation Anonymous Arabic across various social media and hacking sites, reports The Hacker News.
SiliconAngle reports that major cloud-based email security firm Mimecast has entered a deal to purchase workforce risk management solutions provider Elevate Security.
