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A number of JUMPSEC clients have expressed a degree of confusion about their preparedness for the new Digital Organisational Resilience Act (DORA). Enacted in December 2022, DORA has mandated regulations for financial sector organisations and their critical third-parties.

The Fireblocks research team recently uncovered an ERC-4337 Account Abstraction vulnerability in the smart contract wallet UniPass. Fireblocks worked with UniPass to fully mitigate the vulnerability, which was found in hundreds of mainnet wallets in a whitehat operation. All funds are now safe and accounted for.

In August 2023, Netskope Threat Labs highlighted an increase in downloads of PDF phishing attachments in Microsoft Live Outlook, caused by a series of phishing campaigns targeting users of the email service. We took a closer look and found that these campaigns are mostly Amazon-themed scams with a few Apple and IRS-themed phishing attempts sprinkled throughout. Just like in our previously reported phishing blog posts, attackers are abusing free services in these campaigns.

The world had a security wake-up call recently. Organizations were alerted to nearly 100,000 exposed industrial control systems (ICS), potentially allowing an attacker to access and control physical infrastructure such as power grids, traffic light systems, security and water systems, and more. That’s not only a stark statistic but a critical call-to-action for organizations around the world.

What is the culture of cybersecurity, anyway? When most people hear the phrase “Cybersecurity is a Culture,” their minds jump immediately to cybersecurity awareness training videos that help employees avoid phishing scams. Certainly, that is an important part of driving security awareness in your organization, but the true culture of cybersecurity is so much more. To quote our CTO, Jerald Dawkins, Ph.D., “Cybersecurity is a team sport.

Red teamers at IBM X-Force warn that AI-generated phishing emails are nearly as convincing as human-crafted ones, and can be created in a fraction of the time. The researchers tricked ChatGPT into quickly crafting a phishing lure, then tested the lure against real employees.

Phishing attacks, which involve fraudulent attempts to trick individuals into divulging sensitive personal information, remain a significant threat. Despite advances in cybersecurity, hackers continue to adapt and evolve their tactics to exploit vulnerabilities.

On October 25, 2023 VMware published a security advisory regarding a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CVE-2023-34048) that has been fixed in the latest updates by VMware. The vulnerability has received a critical severity rating by VMware as it could potentially allow a remote, unauthenticated threat actor to achieve remote code execution if successfully exploited.

“What’s New in Sysdig” is back with the October 2023 edition! My name is Zain Ghani, based in Austin, Texas, joined by my colleague, Matt Baran, based in Los Angeles, California, to share our latest updates with you. The last few weeks have been really exciting at Sysdig.

Server configuration hardening is a basic requirement for compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0 that was updated in April 2022 from PCI DSS Version 3.2.1. Server hardening is a fundamental process that ensures the security of servers in the network by reducing the servers attack surface through implementation of secure configurations.