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Organizations must educate themselves and their users on how to detect, disrupt, and defend against the increasing volume of online disinformation.

An analysis of trillions of DNS requests shows a shocking amount of malicious traffic inside enterprise networks, with threats using DNS as a sort of malicious Autobahn.

A new Golang-based malware dubbed GoBruteforcer has been found targeting web servers running phpMyAdmin, MySQL, FTP, and Postgres to corral the devices into a botnet. "GoBruteforcer chose a Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block for scanning the network during the attack, and it targeted all IP addresses within that CIDR range," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said. "The threat actor

BlackLotus is the first in-the-wild malware to exploit a vulnerability in the Secure Boot process on Windows, and experts expect copycats and imminent increased activity.

An updated version of a botnet malware called Prometei has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022. The infections are both geographically indiscriminate and opportunistic, with a majority of the victims reported in Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey. Prometei, first observed in 2016, is a modular botnet that features a large repertoire of components and several proliferation

Prometei botnet continued its activity since Cisco Talos first reported about it in 2020. Since November 2022, we have observed Prometei improving the infrastructure components and capabilities.

More than two years after a major takedown by law enforcement, the threat group is once again proving just how impervious it is against disruption attempts.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2022-35914 (CVSS score: 9.8) - Teclib GLPI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2022-33891 (CVSS score: 8.8) - Apache Spark Command Injection Vulnerability

By Deeba Ahmed Authorities have arrested two suspected members of the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang in Germany and Ukraine, believed to be high-value members of the cybercrime syndicate. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top members of DoppelPaymer Ransomware gang arrested

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Feb. 24 and March 3. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key