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Defense in Depth: 4 Essential Layers of ICS Security #outlook a{ padding:0; } body{ width:100% !important; } .ReadMsgBody{ width:100%; } .ExternalClass{ width:100%; } body{ -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; } body{ margin:0; padding:0; } img{ border:0; height:auto; line-height:100%; outline:none; text-decoration:none; } table td{ border-collapse:collapse; } #backgroundTable{ height:100% !important; margin:0; padding:0; width:100%...

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For the last two years we have been monitoring a Russian-language cyberespionage actor that focuses on Central Asian users and diplomatic entities. We named the actor DustSquad and have provided private intelligence reports to our customers on four of their campaigns involving custom Android and Windows malware. In this blogpost we cover a malicious program for Windows called Octopus...

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Introduction On October 4, 2018, the MIVD held a press conference about an intercepted cyberattack on the OPWC in the Netherlands, allegedly by the advanced threat actor Sofacy (also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear, among others). According to the MIVD, four suspects were caught red handed trying to break into the OPWC’s network. Sofacy activity in the Netherlands did...

Summary MuddyWater is a relatively new APT that surfaced in 2017. It has focused mainly on governmental targets in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, according to past telemetry. However, the group behind MuddyWater has been known to target other countries in the Middle East, Europe and the US. We recently noticed a large amount of spear phishing documents that appear to...

Yesterday, Microsoft published their security bulletin, which patches CVE-2018-8453, among others. It is a vulnerability in win32k.sys discovered by Kaspersky Lab in August. We reported this vulnerability to Microsoft on August 17, 2018. Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability and designated it CVE-2018-8453. In August 2018 our Automatic Exploit Prevention (AEP) systems detected an attempt to exploit a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows...

Is it time to fire your vulnerability management provider? #outlook a{ padding:0; } body{ width:100% !important; } .ReadMsgBody{ width:100%; } .ExternalClass{ width:100%; } body{ -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; } body{ margin:0; padding:0; } img{ border:0; height:auto; line-height:100%; outline:none; text-decoration:none; } table td{ border-collapse:collapse; } #backgroundTable{ height:100% !important; margin:0; padding:0; width:100%...

Our customers trust us to keep their most privileged credentials – the “keys to the kingdom” – secure from being exploited. Over half of the Fortune 100, the world’s largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and critical infrastructure companies, all trust Centrify to stop the leading cause of breaches – privileged credential abuse. We know that we can do even better. That...

Configurable systems have a high level of flexibility and are better adapted to most customer needs, but their management isn’t a trivial task in complex cloud deployments. The configuration management concept isn’t new and originated in the United States Department of Defense in the 1950s as a technical management discipline for hardware material items. In a software environment, it...