Healthcare and pharma companies are at the forefront of our most important need as humans: saving lives. To succeed, they require highly skilled staff members, medical equipment, drugs and resources. On top of these, there is another equally crucial component that will determine their ability to perform their jobs: their network. A secure, reliable and high performing network will ensure patient safety, data integrity and operational efficiency.

The first known security incident involving a compromised device occurred during the Bronze Age, in present-day Turkey.

Over the short span of video game cheating, both cheaters and game developers have evolved in many ways; this includes everything from modification of important game variables (like health) by using tools like Cheat Engine. In addition, game botting impacts both game and real-life economies. However, using modern-day anti-cheat methods is also not without danger, as modern protection tools run on the kernel level and can be abused for malicious impact on the system.

Following our post “A Brief History of Game Cheating,” it’s safe to say that cheats, no matter how lucrative or premium they might look, always carry a degree of danger. Today’s story revolves around the developer of the popular EvolvedAim, a cheat for Escape From Tarkov. He sold his tool with an information stealer bundled with it, double-dipping and causing damage to his clients and to the game itself.

Think about all the vendors your company pays for. How many do you think there are? Out of those, how many do you think it actually uses? Spendesk examined this question in over 5,000 small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K., France, Germany, and Spain. The results were surprising. The study found that the average SME has 800 suppliers. That’s nine times the average SME headcount. What’s more, SMEs are only using about a quarter of them.

On July 24, 2024, hacktivist entity USDoD claimed on English-language cybercrime forum BreachForums to have leaked CrowdStrike’s “entire threat actor list.”1 The actor also alleged that they had obtained CrowdStrike’s “entire IOC list” and would release it “soon.” In the announcement, USDoD provided a link to download the alleged threat actor list and provided a sample of data fields, likely in an effort to substantiate their claims.

The threat group USDoD posted on a dark web forum on July 24th to claim they’ve got hold of a large database of threat actors compiled by CrowdStrike. So far, the threat actor has released only a small sample of the data, but the forum post below claims that over 250 million records have been exposed. This could provide information on the aliases, recent activities, origins, and motivations of various cybercriminal groups and state-sponsored actors.

An Azure administrator is an IT specialist who administers, monitors and maintains the Microsoft Azure cloud services and resources. This role encompasses tasks that include deployment and configuring Azure virtual machines and other Azure services, which include databases, storage accounts, and others. It also ensures that the services are secured, performant, and available.

In this post, we explore a powerful, yet widely unknown attack vector which has emerged in the last couple of years known as ‘Repo Jacking’. During our research, we discovered the enormous potential to compromise software components with tens of millions of downloads across the Terraform IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and Composer (PHP package registry) ecosystems. Despite its power, Repo Jacking remains under-researched and frequently misunderstood.

You can check your iPhone for viruses by checking for unfamiliar apps, seeing if your data usage has spiked, seeing an unusual number of pop-up ads and noticing if specific apps are draining your battery. A virus is a type of malicious software that can infect any device, like your iPhone, and then replicate itself on your device’s programs or files.