Google Introduces ‘Air-Gapped’ Backup Vault to Thwart Ransomware

“It’s critical to not only back up your critical workloads, but also to secure those backups against subsequent modification and deletion.”

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AppCD Closes $12.3M Seed Round and Rebrands to StackGen

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Security Budgets Continue Modest Growth, but Staff Hiring Slows Considerably, Research Finds

Security budgets are seeing modest growth in 2024, with an 8% increase compared to a 6% growth in 2023. However, hiring of security staff has significantly slowed down, according to a report by IANS Research and Artico Search.

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DragonRank Black Hat SEO Campaign Targeting IIS Servers Across Asia and Europe

A “simplified Chinese-speaking actor” has been linked to a new campaign that has targeted multiple countries in Asia and Europe with the end goal of performing search engine optimization (SEO) rank manipulation.
The black hat SEO cluster has been codenamed DragonRank by Cisco Talos, with victimology footprint scattered across Thailand, India, Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, and China.

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SplxAI Raises $2 Million to Protect AI Chatbot Apps

SplxAI has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to help organizations identify vulnerabilities in AI chat applications.

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DDoS Attacks Double With Governments Most Targeted

DDoS attacks have doubled, with governments being the most targeted sector, according to StormWall’s report. The number of DDoS incidents globally increased by 102% in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.

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Remote Access Sprawl Strains Industrial OT Network Security

A veritable grab bag of tools used to access critical infrastructure networks are wildly insecure, and blobbing together to create a widening attack surface.

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Quad7 Botnet Targets More SOHO and VPN Routers, Media Servers

Quad7 botnet is expanding its reach by targeting additional SOHO devices with custom malware for Zyxel VPN appliances, Ruckus wireless routers, and Axentra media servers, in addition to previously reported TP-Link and ASUS routers.

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SOAR Is Dead, Long Live SOAR

Business intelligence firm Gartner labels security orchestration, automation, and response as “obsolete,” but the fight to automate and simplify security operations is here to stay.

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PIXHELL Attack Allows Air-Gap Jumping via Noise From Screens

Noise generated by the pixels on a screen can be leveraged to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers in what is called a PIXHELL attack.

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