Dark Reading Daily -- February 10, 2021

The intrusion also shows how redundancy and detection can minimize damage and reduce impact to the population.

Microsoft's monthly security fixes addressed a Win32k zero-day, six publicly known flaws, and three bugs in the Windows TCP/IP stack.

A new investigation of two known threat groups show cyber actors are spying on mobile devices and PCs belonging to targeted users around the world.

Taking stock of least-privilege policies will go a long way toward hardening an organization's overall security posture.

Team members from different backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, and neurological abilities are best equipped to tackle today's security challenges.

Cloud services was the most impersonated industry, followed by financial services, e-commerce, and social media, researchers report.

Cloud-based big data platform boosts extended detection and response (XDR) offering.

An open source plug-in purportedly introduced tracking and malicious download code to infect nearly 2 million users, reports say.

Security researchers examine how and when Emotet's operators may resurface, and the threats that could evolve in the meantime.

Organized cybercrime is global in scale and the second-greatest risk over the next decade.

EDITORS' CHOICE

Attackers are using legitimate enterprise tools to execute attacks and carry out malicious actions. Security teams must take action now.

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