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Threats delivered over encrypted channels continue to rise

Network World

Attackers are using encrypted channels to bypass traditional defenses, concealing malware, phishing campaigns, cryptomining/cryptojacking, and data theft within encrypted traffic. Malware dominates the landscape: Malware remains the most prevalent encrypted threat, representing 86.5% Encrypted threats accounted for 87.2%

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Center for Internet Security: 18 security controls you need

Network World

The Center for Internet Security has updated its set of safeguards for warding off the five most common types of attacks facing enterprise networks—web-application hacking, insider and privilege misuse, malware, ransomware, and targeted intrusions.

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

The flaws Overall, the study said, 74% of organizations had publicly exposed storage, some of which included sensitive data. And, it said, “as organizations ramp up their use of cloud-native applications so, too, does the amount of sensitive data they store there increase — including customer and employee information and business IP.

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Unknown threat actor targeting Juniper routers with backdoor: Report

Network World

The bad news: According to researchers at Lumen Technologys Black Lotus Labs, the unknown attacker can install a reverse shell on the local file system so they can control the router, steal data, or deploy more malware. Lumens write-up has enough data to craft a script for this. The Lumen researchers call this campaign J-magic.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

A Zero Trust platform ensures applications and data are not visible to the public internet and users are only provided least privilege access, preventing lateral movement and protecting against ransomware attacks. In the 1990s, the internet became widely available, opening up a new frontier for cybersecurity threats.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

The report also highlighted that Chinese groups continue to share malware tools a long-standing hallmark of Chinese cyber espionage with the KEYPLUG backdoor serving as a prime example. Vault Panda has used many malware families shared by Chinese threat actors, including KEYPLUG, Winnti, Melofee, HelloBot, and ShadowPad.

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