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Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:08:05 +0000

Sophos X-Ops discovers a curious backdoored (and signed) executable, masquerading as something else entirely

April 15, 2024 admin

It’s Oh So Quiet (?): The Sophos Active Adversary Report for 1H 2024

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:01:37 +0000

The latter half of 2023 found numerous fronts on which attackers failed to press ahead. Are defenders failing to take advantage?

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March 20, 2024 admin

Remote Desktop Protocol: The Series

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:18:21 +0000

What is RDP, why is it a very nearly ubiquitous finding in incident response, and how can investigators run it to ground it when it goes wrong? An Active Adversary Special Report

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March 12, 2024 admin

59 CVEs primed for Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday

Credit to Author: Angela Gunn| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:57:48 +0000

Just two critical-severity issues addressed, though Azure and OMI admins won’t want to delay patching this month

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March 12, 2024 admin

The 2024 Sophos Threat Report: Cybercrime on Main Street

Credit to Author: gallagherseanm| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:00:28 +0000

Ransomware remains the biggest existential cyber threat to small businesses, but others are growing.

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March 4, 2024 admin

It’ll be back: Attackers still abusing Terminator tool and variants

Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:00:08 +0000

First released in May 2023, an EDR killer – and the vulnerable Zemana drivers it leverages – are still of interest to threat actors, along with variants and ported versions

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February 28, 2024 admin