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insider threat risks

"In every insider threat case, there is a combination of network activity and employee behaviour. The malicious activity crosses both physical and electronic modalities..."

Pre-auth RCE zero days in Ivanti VPNs are being exploited by a Chinese APT and there won’t be a patch for weeks. Buckle up.

Attackers re-write JavaScript loaded by the VPN login page for the Appliance to capture credentials; also grabbed Veeam credentials, moved laterally for full SYSTEM control.

Patch Tuesday brings lots of chaff, a little buggy wheat too. Some CVE highlights to review.

One vulnerability bears a striking resemblance to an 0day that was actively exploited in the wild in November 2023.

SEC’s X account hacked: Unlike Mandiant, no MFA was in place

"The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products"

Disclosed ransomware attacks hit two-per day in December: The real figure is ~500% higher

"Simulate and exercise breach readiness, especially abilities to reduce blast radius of a cyber attack. Involve top leadership, the board, and customers in separate cyber war games, as often as practical..."

Software licensing bug percolates pre-auth RCE risk downstream to PLC-land

Another arguably more potent example and one actively exploited in the wild is CVE-2023-46604 – a CVSS 10 RCE vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ; an open source message broker written in Java.

The Big Interview: Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha on going from no running water, to running a $500m business

On Magic Quadrants, deal size, changing approaches to cyber-resilience and learning from his father.

AWS rattles customers with unclear warning over mystery "recent CVE"

Warns users it will terminate affected tasks, but leaves a lacuna... (Fear not, we're here with details)

Kaspersky burns 11,000-line “NSA” exploit: Calls 14-step iPhone attack “definitely the most sophisticated attack chain we have ever seen”

Apex Predators aside and in other news, a major telco just got hacked because it didn't have MFA set up on a critical account...

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