Dark Reading Daily -- September 04, 2019

Over 47K Supermicro Corporate Servers Vulnerable to Attack

Vulnerabilities in a remote-monitoring component give attackers a way to mount virtual USBs on systems, Eclypsium warns.

Multicloud Businesses Face Higher Breach Risk

A new report finds 52% of multicloud environments have suffered a breach within the past year, compared with 24% of hybrid cloud users.

3 Promising Technologies Making an Impact on Cybersecurity

The common thread: Each acts as a force multiplier, adding value to every other security technology around it.

Upping the Ante on Anti-Analysis

Attackers are becoming more sophisticated in their obfuscation and anti-analysis practices to avoid detection.

Report: Iranian 'Mole' Carried Stuxnet to Iranian Nuclear Facility

An engineer recruited by the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD helped bring to Iran's Natanz nuclear facility the malware via USB that ultimately infected systems there and sabotaged centrifuges, according to an exclusive report from Yahoo News.

Cybercriminals Impersonate Chief Exec's Voice with AI Software

Scammers leveraged artificial intelligence software to mimic the voice of a chief executive and successfully request $243,000.

Google Uncovers Massive iPhone Attack Campaign

A group of hacked websites has been silently compromising fully patched iPhones for at least two years, Project Zero reports.

'It Saved Our Community': 16 Realistic Ransomware Defenses for Cities

Practical steps municipal governments can take to better prevent and respond to ransomware infections.

Fancy Bear Dons Plain Clothes to Try to Defeat Machine Learning

An analysis of a sample published by the US government shows Russian espionage group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, has stripped down its initial infector in an attempt to defeat ML-based defenses.

EDITORS' CHOICE

7 Steps to Web App Security

Emerging technologies are introducing entirely new ways to reach, act, and interact with people. That makes app security more important than ever.

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'It Takes Restraint': A Seasoned CISO's Sage Advice for New CISOs

Todd Fitzgerald wrote the books on being a chief information security officer. Here he offers tips on what to do and what not to do in the first few months of a new CISO job.

7 Threats & Disruptive Forces Changing the Face of Cybersecurity