The tactic makes it much harder for defenders to take down botnets via sinkholing and other standard techniques, Akamai says.

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Top execs from FireEye, SolarWinds, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee today on the aftermath – and ongoing investigations – into the epic attacks.

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Also on Krebs’ radar: the cyber-response to COVID-19 and intelligence-sharing between private and public sectors.

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The latest patches, for its SMA 100 series products, comes less than three weeks after an updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability.

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The two campaigns aimed to steal victims’ business email account credentials by posing as the shipping companies.

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Any organization can use MITRE ATT&CK as a force multiplier, but it’s especially valuable for small ones.

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When siloed functions unite in the face of cyberthreats, organizations can continue, uninterrupted, along their paths to digital transformation.

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The venerable system has served us well but is now outdated. Not that it’s time to throw the system away — use it as a framework to measure risk using modern, context-based methods.

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APT31 cloned and reused a Windows-based hacking tool for years before Microsoft patched the vulnerability, researchers report.

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Almost four of every five attacks attributed in 2020 were conducted by cybercriminal groups, a significant jump from 2019, with attacks on healthcare or using the pandemic rising fast.

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