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New Malware Emerges With IcedID Links

Researchers believe that the new malware, likely created by IcedID developers, will become increasingly used by threat actors across the landscape.

Malware

Post-Disruption, LockBit’s Reputational Damage Key

Law enforcement efforts to sow distrust and hit LockBit’s brand have had arguably the biggest impact on undermining the ransomware-as-a-service model behind the group.

Ransomware

CSRB: Microsoft Should Refocus on Security After Cloud Intrusion

The Cyber Safety Review Board cited a string of internal failures in Microsoft's security culture as contributing factors for the 2023 compromise of more than 20 customers' cloud email inboxes by a Chinese threat group.

Microsoft, China

Decipher Podcast: Dan Lorenc Returns

Dan Lorenc, co-founder and CEO of Chainguard, joins Dennis Fisher to dig into the recent XZ Utils backdoor incident, the implications for the open source ecosystem, and what can be done to avoid similar incidents in the future. Then they discuss the problems facing NIST's National Vulnerability Database and the CVE ecosystem.

Podcast

Decipher Podcast: Rick Gordon

Rick Gordon of Tidal Cyber joins Dennis Fisher to discuss his path from the US Naval Academy to submarine officer to Wall Street and finally to the cybersecurity industry, where he's worked for the last 25 years. Dennis and Rick also talk about the importance of the community aspect of cybersecurity and why it's vital to the collective defense.

Podcast

Carefully Crafted Campaign Led to XZ Utils Backdoor

The person or people that implanted malicious code into XZ Utils put time and effort into building trust in the open source software ecosystem.

Open Source

CISA Releases Cyber Incident Reporting Rule Draft

CISA has laid out the proposed details of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA).

CISA

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 3/29

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources.

Source Code

Red Hat, CISA Warn of XZ Utils Backdoor

The malicious code (which is being tracked as CVE-2024-3094) is embedded in XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, and may allow unauthorized access to impacted systems.

Open Source

U.S. Offers Reward For BlackCat Ransomware Group Intel

The U.S. government is looking for more information about the individuals affiliated with the BlackCat ransomware group, which was behind the Change Healthcare attack.

Ransomware

Organizations Grapple With Identity Pain Points

Cisco's 2024 Cybersecurity Readiness Index showed that 36 percent of respondents ranked identity protection as a major challenge.

Identity

The Unique AI Cybersecurity Challenges in the Financial Sector

A new report by the Treasury Department looks at both the challenges and the opportunities when it comes to AI and cybersecurity in the financial sector.

AI

Google: Zero-Day Attacks Surged in 2023

Google reported that 97 flaws were exploited in the wild in 2023, up 50 percent from the number of zero-day attacks recorded in 2022.

Zero Day

Decipher Podcast: Jack Cable

Jack Cable, senior technical advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), talks about his past experiences with bug bounty programs, CISA’s Secure By Design initiative and its efforts to help secure the open-source software ecosystem.

Podcast

Critical Fortinet Flaw Now Actively Exploited

Fortinet earlier this month disclosed and issued a patch for the flaw (CVE-2023-48788), which exists in FortiClientEMS, its central management solution for endpoints.

Fortinet