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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of April 4, 2022
By Editorial Staff on Mon, 04/11/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of April 4, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Borat RAT, a new RAT that performs ransomware and DDoS...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of March 28, 2022
By Editorial Staff on Mon, 04/04/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of March 28, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Muhstik Botnet Targeting Redis Servers Using Recently...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of February 14, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 02/21/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of February 14, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Microsoft Using New Security Rule to Prevent Windows...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of January 24, 2022
By Editorial Staff on Mon, 01/31/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of January 24, 2022. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT.
SonicWall Discloses Cause of...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of January 17, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Tue, 01/25/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of January 17, 2022. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT.
Root-Level RCE Vulnerability...
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Bridging the IT/OT gap with Tripwire’s Industrial Solutions
By Zane Blomgren on Tue, 06/07/2022
Cybersecurity has, since its inception, been a corporate-based problem. Whether it is a public, or private corporation, these entities were the primary targets of most cybercrime. In recent years, the industrial sector has increasingly become the target of attack for malicious actors. The reasons include newly internet-connected devices that were...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of May 16, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 05/23/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of May 16, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Watch Out! Hackers Begin Exploiting Recent Zyxel...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of May 2, 2022
By Editorial Staff on Mon, 05/09/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of May 2, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Exposes PostgreSQL Databases...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of September 5, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 09/12/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of September 5th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Critical RCE Vulnerability Affects Zyxel NAS...
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Industrial Cybersecurity Experts Share 14 of Their Biggest Tips and Predictions
The task of building and running an effective cybersecurity program is a major challenge for any complex organization, but those in charge of industrial control systems (ICS) have even more to figure out than their strictly-IT counterparts.
How can industrial organizations overcome the cybersecurity skills gap? What about the increasingly-difficult endeavor of bringing the IT and OT sides of the...
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The Industrial Control System (ICS) Visibility Imperative
The rapid convergence of IT and OT systems can leave even the most cybersecurity-mature organizations exposed. Industrial security teams are under-reacting to new cyberthreats, and legacy operational technology simply wasn’t built to handle the risks incurred by connecting to IT systems. The main issue is visibility: You can’t secure what you can’t see.
Safety, productivity, and uptime are...
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Industrial Cybersecurity from Tripwire Enterprise
How are you protecting your industrial assets from cyber threats? Industrial control system (ICS) environments pose unique security challenges that can quickly drain your resources if you’re faced with time consuming manual asset inventory and a lack of cohesion between your organization’s IT and OT strategies. Many security solutions can disrupt ICS or SCADA equipment as well, meaning you need a...
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Industrial Cybersecurity - What You Don't Know Might Hurt You
Mon, 08/15/2022
Getting a clear assessment of your assets is the first step toward developing a mature OT network or control system. A well maintained asset inventory allows your organization to quickly manage risk affecting your operations availability, reliability and safety. Industrial environments often need to map assets to NIST, ITIL, ISO, COBIT or process automation standards like ANSI/ISA99-IEC-62443. You can achieve significant efficiency improvement and save time within industrial environments by automating asset management instead of following manual spreadsheet processes. Cyber security experts David Meltzer, Chief Research Officer at Tripwire, Tony Gore, CEO at Red Trident Inc., and John Powell, Senior Critical Infrastructure Engineer at Red Trident Inc., will discuss the practical 1-2-3 basics of industrial cyber security and how to get started automating asset management. Attendees will also learn how to build an effective strategy for protecting industrial assets - networks, endpoints and controllers. Key Takeaways: Learn how to automate and simplify the inventory process and secure your assets Understand what cyber security standards may apply to your unique environment Hear real-world tips on how to prioritize and work across functional silos within your company Receive an industrial cyber security assessment checklist to help gauge your starting point
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VERT at the Movies: Cybergeddon
By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 02/16/2021
While I was teaching, one of my students asked if I had seen Cybergeddon, a film distributed by Yahoo! in 2012. I had not, so I decided it would be fun for VERT to watch the film and review it, since my hobby is writing film reviews for RotundReviews.Cybergeddon is not talked about as much as it should be given some of the background around it. It...
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Top 7 Technical Resource Providers for ICS Security Professionals
By Anastasios Arampatzis on Wed, 05/15/2024
Attacks against industrial control systems (ICS) are on the rise. Cyberattacks are more prevalent, creative, and faster than ever. So, understanding attackers' tactics is crucial. The IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2023 highlights that backdoor deployments enabling remote access to ICS systems were the most common type of attacker...
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VERT Research Tips: Byting into Python
By Tyler Reguly on Sun, 11/14/2021
The past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of my free time preparing for the OSCP exam, which means refreshing a lot of skills that I haven’t used in years. A large part of that is rebuilding muscle memory around buffer overflows, so that’s how I spent my four-day weekend. I logged about 70 hours compiling small programs, writing buffer overflows,...
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VERT Threat Alert: November 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis
By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 11/09/2021
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s November 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-972 on Wednesday, November 10th.
In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs
CVE-2021-42292
Up first this month, we have a 0-day in Microsoft Excel that allows an attacker to bypass security features....
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The Next Disruptive ICS Attack: 3 Likely Sources for Major Disruptions
By Craig Young on Wed, 07/28/2021
Faced with rows of empty gas pumps, many Americans on the East Coast may be wondering why this happened, whether it will happen again, or if there is anything we can do to avoid future catastrophe. The unpleasant truth of the matter is that this will certainly not be the last time society is disrupted due to attackers targeting critical industrial...