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Additional Post Contributors: Austin Pham, Tony Iacobelli Cisco and Splunk, together, elevate the SOC’s Incident Detection and Response experience to the next level by combining technologies from both sides that provide an even greater single pane of glass view to threats in real time. Technologies such as Cisco XDR and Security Cloud and Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Attack Analyzer, and Splunk Cloud are the perfect pairing to reduce the Mean time to Detect, Respond, Contain, and Eradicate (MTTx) significantly. Building out a SOC Triage Center Dashboard (originally created by Matthew Bellezza from the Splunk Center of Excellence) in Splunk Enterprise…
Tailor raised $22 million in a Series A funding round to support its headless enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform designed for retail businesses. The company will use the new funding to support its U.S. go-to-market expansion, ongoing product development and strategic partnerships and customer success investment in Japan, it said in a Tuesday (July 1) press release. Tailor’s platform enables mid-market and enterprise companies to build and evolve their ERP stack, according to the release. Because the data and logic layer is decoupled from the user interface, customers can customize workflows and integrate with software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools, the release said. They can orchestrate…
Lawrence Hoffman // ADVISORY: The techniques and tools referenced within this blog post may be outdated and do not apply to current situations. However, there is still potential for this blog entry to be used as an opportunity to learn and to possibly update or integrate into modern tools and techniques. Today I’ll walk through the process I use to verify ISO images before I install them. If you downloaded Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon on February 20th there’s some chance that you obtained an ISO with malware installed. The Linux Mint team posted notification on their blog on February 21st…
Trustwave SpiderLabs, a leading cybersecurity research team, has confidently connected the cyber threat group known as Blind Eagle (also called APT-C-36) with Proton66, a Russian company that provides bulletproof hosting services. Blind Eagle is an active threat actor notorious for targeting organizations across Latin America, with a particular focus on financial institutions in Colombia. Reportedly, this link results from SpiderLabs’ continuous monitoring of Proton66’s infrastructure for several months. The Attack Infrastructure According to SpiderLabs’ investigation, shared with Hackread.com, their analysts made this connection by examining assets tied to Proton66, which led them to an interconnected network of domains and IP…
Recent geopolitical tensions have undeniably elevated the global cybersecurity risk landscape. While we haven’t yet observed a widespread surge in direct Iranian cyberattacks, the potential for increased cyber operations from both state-sponsored groups and independent hacktivists is clear and warrants immediate attention. This heightened risk is underscored by the U.S. government’s recent joint fact sheet, which explicitly urges organizations to remain vigilant against potential targeted cyber operations by Iranian state-sponsored or affiliated threat actors, particularly impacting U.S. critical infrastructure. Iran’s Cyber Playbook Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 diligently monitors and responds to campaigns orchestrated by sophisticated nation-state actors like Iran,…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has withdrawn its notice of inquiry and terminated the related rulemaking proceeding in Docket No. RM20-12-000. The notice of inquiry had requested public comment on whether the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards in place at the time sufficiently addressed cybersecurity risks related to data security, detection of anomalies and events, and mitigation of cybersecurity incidents. The withdrawal will become effective July 31. In a Tuesday notice published on the Federal Register, the Commission has also asked for input on the potential risks of a coordinated cyberattack on geographically distributed targets and whether Commission…
engineering space, debates about whether using LLMs in coding is a good or a bad idea are raging. On the extremes, there are some people who think that any use of LLMs in coding is indefensible, and other people are ready to throw out the whole field of software engineering as too expensive and unnecessary. I’m fascinated by this discussion, particularly from my sociologist’s perspective, because so much of the conversation seems to be about whether an LLM is useful. Is it so fatally flawed that it’s a total waste of time, or is it so unimaginably powerful that it’s…
OpenAI said on July 2 that digital tokens trading under its name on Robinhood’s new blockchain platform do not represent OpenAI equity and were listed without the company’s consent.In a statement posted on X, the artificial intelligence developer wrote: “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity. We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it. Any transfer of OpenAI equity requires our approval—we did not approve any transfer.” The company asked investors to “be careful,” highlighting that any equity movement in the private firm must be approved by its board.Tokenized-stock pilot spurs confusionOpenAI’s comment follows…
Researchers from NordVPN and Silent Push uncover separate brand-spoofing campaigns that involve tens of thousands of fake websites impersonating real plans that are used to lure victims to hand their data and money to threat actors. The post Silent Push, NordVPN Uncover Thousands of Brand-Spoofing Websites appeared first on Security Boulevard.