CISA has been championing Secure by Design principles. Many of the principles are universal, like adopting MFA and having opinionated defaults that reduce the need for hardening guides. Matthew Rogers talks about how the approach to Secure by Design has to be tailored for Operational Technology (OT) systems. These systems have strict requirements o...
BleepingComputer reports that vulnerable TBK Vision DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 digital video recording devices impacted by the command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-3721, have been targeted by a novel Mirai botnet malware variant.
Manufacturing organizations have been subjected to cyber intrusions from 71% more threat actors in 2024, compared with the previous year, while a majority of the 29 hacking operations targeting the sector from 2024 to the first three months of 2025 have been setting their sights on operational technology systems, GBHackers News reports.
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Internet of Things devices running on Linux have been targeted by the newly emergent PumaBot botnet in SSH brute-force attacks, according to Security Affairs.
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