The malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for over a month. Researchers discovered a malicious backdoor in a compression tool, which infiltrated widely utilized Linux distributions, including those offered by Red Hat and Debian. According to developer Andres Freund who discovered it, the compression utility, known as xz Utils, introduced the malicious […]
Ransomware is the most significant cybersecurity threat facing many organizations today and while attacks are only getting more sophisticated, it’s a threat that can be countered. Several cybersecurity threats are facing the world today, including supply chain attacks, threat of cyber espionage and cyber aggression by hostile nation states, and cybersecurity exploits and vulnerabilities being sold to whoever wants to buy them. However, ransomware is the most immediate danger […]
Exploiting security flaws is one of the major tactics used by cybercriminals to attack organizations. Vulnerabilities are an unfortunate fact of life for operating systems, applications, hardware devices and databases. An attack against a database can easily compromise sensitive and confidential user and customer data. Based on analysis fromImperva covering 27,000 on-premises databases around the […]