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Playing defense against Gamaredon Group

For several months, the Intelligence & Analytics team at Elastic Security has tracked an ongoing adversary campaign appearing to target Ukranian government officials. Based on our monitoring, we believe Gamaredon Group, a suspected Russia-based threat group, is behind this campaign. Our observations suggest a significant overlap between tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) included within this campaign and public reporting.

CCPA Exemptions: The California Consumer Privacy Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

A change is coming for privacy protection. Are you ready? For the past twenty years, most financial services businesses fell under the requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act or GLBA). This law federally governed the collection and disclosure of customers’ personal financial information. However, on January 1st, 2020, a new privacy rule—the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—wentis going into effect.

RDS: Do Not Allow LPT Port Redirection

This policy specifies whether to prevent the redirection of data to client LPT ports during a Remote Desktop Services session. You can use this setting to prevent users from mapping local LPT ports and redirecting data from the remote computer to local LPT port peripherals. If a value is configured to Disabled or Not Configured, the attacker can leverage it to map the client’s LPT ports. In addition, he can use the port to redirect data from the Terminal Server to the local LTP ports.

Code Sight IDE Plugin Combines SAST and SCA to Analyze Proprietary and Open Source Code | Synopsys

Until now, single analysis tools have given developers only a partial view of security risks – providing either static analysis of proprietary code or software composition analysis of open source. This separation often leads to undetected vulnerabilities, decreased developer productivity, and longer release cycles.

A Guide to Digital Privacy for You and Your Family

Having worked with many individuals responding to incidents where their digital private images were shared without consent, social media or email accounts had unauthorised access, and even physical safety was a concern, it is all too familiar how terrifying the unknown can be. As someone who has been on both the victim’s and later the responder’s side, I am qualified to express both the terror and knowledge of things you can do to take back control.

Supercharging Workload Security in Your K8s Cluster

2019 was a big year for Kubernetes adoption, and 2020 is sure to exceed that pace. Already, we have seen a large number of organizations migrating their workloads to Kubernetes (k8s) both in public and private clouds as they embrace a hybrid cloud strategy. With so much at stake, what are you currently using for network security inside your k8s cluster?

New PayPal phishing scam seeks to go beyond login credential information

Up until now, some of PayPal users’ greatest fears in terms of cybersecurity were phishing scams aimed at obtaining their login credentials. In January of this year, PayPal confirmed a high-severity bug affecting the login form, with PayPal security investigator, Alex Birsan, finding a javascript file with what looked like a CSRF token and a session ID – which makes login information vulnerable to attackers.

Recovering from OneDrive for Business ransomware attacks

Ransomware has been a growing threat in recent years, and experts now estimate the cost of these attacks at $7.5 billion in the USA alone in 2019. The affected institutions include 966 government agencies, educational establishments, and healthcare providers. Since most ransomware attacks stem from a small mistake made by one end user, either through phishing emails or stolen credentials, the threat is only expected to increase in the years to come.