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Attackers Increasingly Abusing DigitalOcean to Host Scams and Phishing

Netskope Threat Labs is tracking a 17x increase in traffic to malicious web pages hosted on DigitalOcean in the last six months. This increase is attributed to new campaigns of a known tech support scam that mimics Windows Defender and tries to deceive users into believing that their computer is infected.

How To Setup Velero Backups On EKS Using IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA)

Velero is an open-source tool that allows you to backup and restore your Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes. Velero backups support a number of different storage providers including AWS S3. The process of setting up Velero backup with S3 using AWS credentials has been documented by Velero here. However, at the time of this post, there is no official documentation on how to set up Velero using IRSA or IAM Roles for Service Accounts.

The Importance of Keeping Software Up to Date

It’s important to keep your software up to date because updates enhance existing features, patch security flaws, add new security features, fix bug issues and improve performance for devices. Continue reading to learn more about software updates and how you can check if your software is up to date.

Acer Repair Documents, Images, and More Are Stolen in Cyber Attack

Acer is a well-known tech company that's based in Taiwan and with facilities and offices around the world. The company's main headquarters are in San Jose, California, in the United States. The company is known for engineering, technical manufacturing, and creating many products in the electronics industry today. The organization recently suffered a significant data attack that may have exposed company secrets, product keys, and many software images that could hurt the organization.

Cato Analyzes the Dominant Sources of Threats in 2H2022 Research Report

We recently issued the Cato Networks SASE Threat Research Report, which highlights cyber threats and trends based on more than 1.3 trillion flows that passed through the Cato SASE Cloud network during the second half of 2022. The report highlights the most popular vulnerabilities that threat actors attempted to exploit, and the growing use of consumer applications that may present a risk to the enterprise.

A Noteworthy Threat: How Cybercriminals are Abusing OneNote - Part 2

In part one, we examined how threat actors abuse a OneNote document to install an infostealer. Part 2 of this series discusses an AsyncRAT infection chain while detailing important parts of the code. We’ll also quickly analyze other notable malware strains such as Qakbot and RemcosRAT.

A Noteworthy Threat: How Cybercriminals are Abusing OneNote - Part 1

Threat actors are taking advantage of Microsoft OneNote's ability to embed files and use social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails and lures inside the OneNote document, to get unsuspecting users to download and open malicious files. Once clicked, an attacker can use the embedded code for various malicious purposes, such as stealing data or installing ransomware on victims' systems.

Comparing Node.js web frameworks: Which is most secure?

JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language, providing many web frameworks that help developers build secure, reliable Node.js web applications. Each framework has unique features, and which framework is right for you depends on your preference and the type of application you intend to create. With so many frameworks available, you need a way to assess their security.

Proof-of-Concept Exploit Released for Critical Vulnerability in Microsoft Word (CVE-2023-21716)

On February 14, 2023, Microsoft released a security advisory for CVE-2023-21716, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word. While CVE-2023-21716 was deemed to be of critical severity, Microsoft assessed at the time of publication that the vulnerability was “less likely” to be exploited, and no proof-of-concept exploit was available. Microsoft also noted that the vulnerability may be exploited through the Preview Pane in Microsoft Outlook.