Attackers Increase Focus on North American Electric Utilities: Report Electric utilities continue to be a target of nation-state attackers, even before the latest tensions between Iran and the United States, says a critical-infrastructure security firm.
Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones Researchers found unremovable malware preinstalled in the Unimax U686CL, a budget Android device sold by Assurance Wireless.
TrickBot Group Adds New PowerShell-Based Backdoor to Arsenal PowerTrick is sort of a custom-version of PowerShell Empire and can be used to download additional malware, SentinelOne says.
Operationalizing Threat Intelligence at Scale in the SOC Open source platforms such as the Malware Information Sharing Platform are well positioned to drive a community-based approach to intelligence sharing.
AWS Issues 'Urgent' Warning for Database Users to Update Certs Users of AWS Aurora, DocumentDB, and RDS databases must download and install a fresh certificate and rotate the certificate authority.
Rockwell Automation to Buy ICS Security Services Firm Industrial control systems vendor plans to acquire Avnet Data Security, which provides penetration testing, assessments, training, and managed network and security services for the ICS sector.