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LinkedIn under attack, malicious hackers seize accounts

Security researchers have identified that a widespread LinkedIn malicious hacking campaign has seen many users locked out of their accounts worldwide. Some users who have had their access to their LinkedIn accounts blocked by the cybercriminals changing their passwords have been pressured into paying a ransom, according to a report from Cyberint, and threatened with permanent account deletion.

LABRAT: Stealthy Cryptojacking and Proxyjacking Campaign Targeting GitLab

The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) recently discovered a new, financially motivated operation, dubbed LABRAT. This operation set itself apart from others due to the attacker’s emphasis on stealth and defense evasion in their attacks. It is common to see attackers utilize scripts as their malware because they are simpler to create. However, this attacker chose to use undetected compiled binaries, written in Go and.NET, which allowed the attacker to hide more effectively.

Windows Security: Detailed Guide to Understand Security Baselines

The security of your organization’s data and systems is at the top. As a leading provider of operating systems and applications, Microsoft understands the criticality of safeguarding its customers’ sensitive information. With products like Windows, Windows Server, Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise, and Microsoft Edge, they strive to offer secure solutions that inspire confidence.

Microsoft's Author-Signing Certificate Update [August 14th, 2023]

This post covers updates that could impact your development workflow. An imminent change is set to occur within the Microsoft ecosystem, explicitly involving the Microsoft author-signing certificate for NuGet packages. Scheduled for deployment as early as August 14th, 2023, this impending alteration warrants your attention to ensure the seamless continuation of your packaging and installation processes.

How Humans Cause and Can Prevent Data Breaches

When it comes to analyzing your attack surface, you’re probably assessing vulnerabilities, monitoring your firewall, tracking email security, and managing your identity and access management. But there is one part of the attack surface that often gets overlooked, and for that reason threat actors are targeting it with increased frequency, causing it to jump to the top of the initial access methods list: the human element.

How to Map Your Bot Use Cases and Protect Your Brand

Bots are ubiquitous across the web. If your business has an online presence, it’s being targeted by automated attacks. So, it’s unsurprising to us at Netacea that in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Application Security 2023, bot management is classed as an early mainstream technology – less than two years from reaching full maturity. The nature and purpose of bot attacks depends on many factors including industry, seasonality, and even the functionality of the target.

Five Workforce Trends That Intensify Insider Threats

Insider threats don’t often seem like threats at all. They look like colleagues working diligently at the office, logging on to the corporate network from Starbucks or providing a critical third-party service. But insider threats are a big problem that’s getting even bigger and costlier to tackle.

KeeperPAM Report: Deployment During Economic Uncertainty

Keeper Security has released the second part of a series of Privileged Access Management (PAM) research, Privileged Access Management Survey: Deployment Amid Economic Uncertainty, to understand how IT leaders are approaching, deploying and streamlining their PAM solutions. Keeper surveyed over 400 IT leaders globally, focusing on the impact of the global economic downturn on PAM deployments, and what IT leaders are prioritizing in PAM solutions given the current economic climate.

Discover the Pharmaverse: A New Frontier for Clinical Trial Analytics

Imagine an intricate multiverse where each world holds endless possibilities. Now picture that same concept but for pharmaceutical research. Welcome to the Pharmaverse! Similar to the complex world of the multiverse, the Pharmaverse contains various solutions to explore, and each solution can be customized based on your data analysis needs. We first learned of the “Pharmaverse” during Mike Stackhouse’s session at the Egnyte for Life Sciences Virtual Summit. ‍

Introducing Snyk's new Risk Score for risk-based prioritization

We’re happy to announce the open beta availability of Snyk’s new Risk Score! Replacing the existing Priority Score, the new Risk Score was designed to help you prioritize more effectively by providing you with an accurate and holistic understanding of the risk posed by a given security issue.