Patch Now: Cisco Zero-Day Under Fire From Chinese APT Threat actor "Velvet Ant" has been exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco's NX-OS Software for managing a variety of switches, executing commands and dropping custom malware.
Dark Reading Confidential: Meet the Ransomware Negotiators Episode 2: Incident response experts-turned-ransomware negotiators Ed Dubrovsky, COO and managing partner of CYPFER, and Joe Tarraf, chief delivery officer of Surefire Cyber, explain how they interact with cyber threat actors who hold victim organizations' systems and data for ransom. Among their fascinating stories: how they negotiated with cybercriminals to restore operations in a hospital NICU where lives were at stake, and how they helped a church, where the attackers themselves "got a little religion."
Thinking About Security, Fast & Slow To be effective, managing risk demands both fast responses and strategic thinking.
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Stress-Testing Our Security Assumptions in a World of New & Novel Risks Categorizing and stress-testing fundamental assumptions is a necessary exercise for any leader interested in ensuring long-term security and resilience in the face of an uncertain future.
'RegreSSHion' Bug Threatens Takeover of Millions of Linux Systems The high-severity CVE-2024-6387 in OpenSSH is a reintroduction of a 2006 flaw, and it allows unauthenticated RCE as root.
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Ransomware Eruption: Novel Locker Malware Flows From ‘Volcano Demon' 
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