August 2022 – Page 5 – PossibleThreat Articles

Credit to Author: Paul Oliveria| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft detected an Iran-based threat actor the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) tracks as MERCURY leveraging exploitation of Log4j 2 vulnerabilities in SysAid applications against organizations located in Israel.

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Microsoft Security

Microsoft Security highlights from Black Hat USA 2022

August 25, 2022 0 Comments cybersecurity

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Black Hat USA 2022 marked the twenty-fifth year that security researchers, security architects, and other security professionals have gathered to share the latest research, developments, and trends. Here are the highlights from the Microsoft Security booth.

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Security Wired

Scans of Students’ Homes During Tests Are Deemed Unconstitutional

August 25, 2022 0 Comments Security, Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

An Ohio judge ruled that such surveillance to prevent cheating could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.

Security Sophos

An open-source ML toolkit for automatically generating YARA rules

August 25, 2022 0 Comments ai research, free tools, incident response tools, open-source, threat hunting tools, yara, yaraml

Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 11:00:35 +0000

The SophosAI Artificial Intelligence team has developed a machine-learning based tool that generates YARA rules for detecting specific types of threats

Security TrendMicro

New Golang Ransomware Agenda Customizes Attacks

August 25, 2022 0 Comments trend micro research : articles, news, reports, trend micro research : cyber threats, trend micro research : endpoints, trend micro research : ransomware, trend micro research : research

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

A new piece of ransomware written in the Go language has been targeting healthcare and education enterprises in Asia and Africa. This ransomware is called Agenda and is customized per victim.

Security TrendMicro

Unlocking Serverless with AWS Lambda and IAM

August 24, 2022 0 Comments trend micro devops : article, trend micro devops : aws, trend micro devops : cloud native, trend micro devops : how to, trend micro devops : serverless security

Credit to Author: Braden Collingwood| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Learn how Lambda and IAM unlock the power and versatility of the cloud by implementing a serverless User API that can be expanded on as you grow and explore the many services on AWS.

MalwareBytes Security

ChromeOS vulnerability found by Microsoft

August 24, 2022 0 Comments audio, bluetooth, chrome, chromeos, Exploit, Google, Microsoft, news, vulnerability

Categories: News

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: ChromeOS

Tags: Chrome

Tags: Google

Tags: audio

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Tags: exploit

Tags: vulnerability

Microsoft has released a report detailing a ChromeOS vulnerability reported to Chrome and fixed within a week.

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MalwareBytes Security

Reset your password now! Plex suffers data breach

August 24, 2022 0 Comments breach, change password, haveibeenpwnd, news, plex, sign out, troy hunt

Categories: News

Tags: Plex

Tags: breach

Tags: sign out

Tags: change password

Tags: Troy Hunt

Tags: HaveIBeenPwnd

In an email sent to its users, Plex revealed that a cybercriminal accessed a limited subset of customer data, including emails and encrypted passwords.

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MalwareBytes Security

How to secure a Mac for your kids

August 24, 2022 0 Comments explained, mac, parental controls, personal, screen time

Categories: Explained

Categories: Personal

Tags: Mac

Tags: Parental Controls

Tags: Screen Time

If you want to know how to secure your Mac so your kids can use it safely, we’re here to help.

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MalwareBytes Security

6 reasons MSPs need a patch management platform

August 24, 2022 0 Comments Business

Categories: Business

With a patch management platform, MSPs can greatly simplify the patching process for their clients—and the benefits don’t end there. In this post, we break down six reasons MSPs need a patch management platform.

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