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6 Simple Steps to Eliminate SOC Analyst Burnout [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The current SOC model relies on a scarce resource: human analysts. These professionals are expensive, in high demand, and increasingly difficult to retain. Their work is not only highly technical and high-risk, but also soul-crushingly repetitive, dealing with a constant flood of alerts and incidents. As a result, SOC analysts often leave in search of…
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Cybercriminals Use Unicode to Hide Mongolian Skimmer in E-Commerce Platforms [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. “At first glance, the thing that stood out was the script’s obfuscation, which seemed a bit bizarre because of all the accented characters,” Jscrambler researchers said in an analysis. “The heavy use…
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Coalition: Ransomware severity up 68% in first half of 2024
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CISA Warns of Critical Fortinet Flaw as Palo Alto and Cisco Issue Urgent Security Patches [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23113 (CVSS score: 9.8), relates to cases of remote code execution that affects FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiWeb. “ARead More
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Firefox Zero-Day Under Attack: Update Your Browser Immediately [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component. “An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting…
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What is extended detection and response (XDR)?
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Google Joins Forces with GASA and DNS RF to Tackle Online Scams at Scale [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Google on Wednesday announced a new partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and DNS Research Federation (DNS RF) to combat online scams. The initiative, which has been codenamed the Global Signal Exchange (GSE), is designed to create real-time insights into scams, fraud, and other forms of cybercrime pooling together threat signals from different data…
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Researchers Uncover Major Security Vulnerabilities in Industrial MMS Protocol Libraries [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Details have emerged about multiple security vulnerabilities in two implementations of the Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS) protocol that, if successfully exploited, could have severe impacts in industrial environments. “The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash an industrial device or in some cases, enable remote code execution,” Claroty researchers Mashav Sapir and VeraRead More
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Atlassian ‘cloud-first’ becomes ‘enterprise-first’
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N. Korean Hackers Use Fake Interviews to Infect Developers with Cross-Platform Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting job seekers in the tech industry to deliver updated versions of known malware families tracked as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity cluster, tracked as CL-STA-0240, is part of a campaign dubbed Contagious Interview that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 first disclosed in November 2023.…