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Eliminating Lateral Threat Movement INSIDE factory, branch, and campus networks

Network World

For network engineers and security leaders tasked with securing modern enterprise environments, the challenge of preventing lateral threat movement is critical. The emergence of IoT and OT devices, which are frequently deployed in factory and branch networks, has further complicated the issue.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

Industry 330
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Global cybersecurity talent gap widens

Network World

“Skill requirements are shifting faster than many practitioners can keep up, which is causing the cybersecurity talent gap to widen once again,” said Will Markow, vice president of applied research at Lightcast, in a statement. Can NaaS mitigate network skills gaps? There are an estimated 1.25

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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. 5 key findings on encrypted attacks The ThreatLabz research team analyzed 32.1 Encrypted threats accounted for 87.2% of blocked attacks.

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Researchers find malware samples that exploit Meltdown and Spectre

Network World

Once Google published its findings for the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in CPUs, the bad guys used that as a roadmap to create their malware. And so far, researchers have found more than 130 malware samples designed to exploit Spectre and Meltdown. Still, the number is rising fast.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

Industry 246
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Unknown threat actor targeting Juniper routers with backdoor: Report

Network World

Network administrators using routers from Juniper Networks are being urged to scan for possible compromise after the discovery that an unknown threat actor has been installing a backdoor in customer routers since at least 2023. If you didnt know you had this device in your network, look at an attack surface management tool.

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