Experimental News Clipping Site

Tag: rootkit

  • Microsoft Security Blog: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/21/think-before-you-clickfix-analyzing-the-clickfix-social-engineering-technique/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique Feedly Summary: The ClickFix social engineering technique has been growing in popularity, with campaigns targeting thousands of enterprise and end-user devices daily. This technique exploits users’ tendency to resolve technical issues by tricking them into running malicious…

  • Slashdot: In Search of Riches, Hackers Plant 4G-Enabled Raspberry Pi In Bank Network

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/31/2241259/in-search-of-riches-hackers-plant-4g-enabled-raspberry-pi-in-bank-network?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: In Search of Riches, Hackers Plant 4G-Enabled Raspberry Pi In Bank Network Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a sophisticated cyber-physical attack by the group UNC2891, which involved planting a 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi within a bank’s ATM network. Utilizing advanced malware and techniques for…

  • Cloud Blog: How to enable Secure Boot for your AI workloads

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-to-enable-secure-boot-for-your-ai-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to enable Secure Boot for your AI workloads Feedly Summary: As organizations race to deploy powerful GPU-accelerated workloads, they might overlook a foundational step: ensuring the integrity of the system from the very moment it turns on.  Threat actors, however, have not overlooked this. They increasingly target…

  • The Register: Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/16/sonicwall_vpn_hijack/ Source: The Register Title: Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit Feedly Summary: Someone’s OVERSTEPing the mark Unknown miscreants are exploiting fully patched, end-of-life SonicWall VPNs to deploy a previously unknown backdoor and rootkit, likely for data theft and extortion, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group.… AI…

  • CSA: Runtime Integrity Measurement Overview

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://www.invary.com/articles/runtime-integrity-measurement-overview Source: CSA Title: Runtime Integrity Measurement Overview Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the complexities and challenges associated with kernel mode rootkits, particularly focusing on the Drovorub malware, which represents a sophisticated threat to operating systems. It highlights the difficulties in detecting such rootkits and presents Kernel…

  • Slashdot: Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/05/0023243/chinese-hacked-us-telecom-a-year-before-known-wireless-breaches?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese Hacked US Telecom a Year Before Known Wireless Breaches Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The reported intrusion of Chinese hackers into an American telecommunications company in 2023 raises significant concerns about the vulnerabilities in U.S. communications infrastructure. Evidence suggests state-sponsored cyber activity has been ongoing…

  • CSA: Overlooked Foundation of Zero Trust

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/integrity-an-overlooked-foundation-of-zero-trust Source: CSA Title: Overlooked Foundation of Zero Trust Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the critical importance of Kernel Runtime Integrity within Zero Trust security models. It highlights that while many organizations adopt Zero Trust architectures focusing on user identity and network segmentation, the integrity of the…

  • Cloud Blog: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers

    —

    by

    Kurt Seifried
    in

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-espionage-targets-juniper-routers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers Feedly Summary: Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos…