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MSPs & MSSPs: How to Increase Engagement with Your Cybersecurity Clients Through vCISO Reporting

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As a vCISO, you are responsible for your client's cybersecurity strategy and risk governance. This incorporates multiple disciplines, from research to execution to reporting. Recently, we published a comprehensive playbook for vCISOs, “Your First 100 Days as a vCISO – 5 Steps to Success”, which covers all the phases entailed in launching a successful vCISO engagement, along with
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How to Set up an Automated SMS Analysis Service with AI in Tines

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The opportunities to use AI in workflow automation are many and varied, but one of the simplest ways to use AI to save time and enhance your organization’s security posture is by building an automated SMS analysis service. Workflow automation platform Tines provides a good example of how to do it. The vendor recently released their first native AI features, and security teams have already
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SocGholish Malware Exploits BOINC Project for Covert Cyberattacks

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The JavaScript downloader malware known as SocGholish (aka FakeUpdates) is being used to deliver a remote access trojan called AsyncRAT as well as a legitimate open-source project called BOINC. BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure Network Computing Client, is an open-source "volunteer computing" platform maintained by the University of California with an aim to carry out "large-scale
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New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMWare ESXi Systems

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a ransomware strain known as Play (aka Balloonfly and PlayCrypt) that's designed to target VMWare ESXi environments. "This development suggests that the group could be broadening its attacks across the Linux platform, leading to an expanded victim pool and more successful ransom negotiations," Trend Micro researchers said in a
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Cybercriminals Exploit CrowdStrike Update Mishap to Distribute Remcos RAT Malware

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Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is facing the heat for causing worldwide IT disruptions by pushing out a flawed update to Windows devices, is now warning that threat actors are exploiting the situation to distribute Remcos RAT to its customers in Latin America under the guise of a providing a hotfix. The attack chains involve distributing a ZIP archive file named "crowdstrike-hotfix.zip,"
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17-Year-Old Linked to Scattered Spider Cybercrime Syndicate Arrested in U.K.

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Law enforcement officials in the U.K. have arrested a 17-year-old boy from Walsall who is suspected to be a member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime syndicate. The arrest was made "in connection with a global cyber online crime group which has been targeting large organizations with ransomware and gaining access to computer networks," West Midlands police said. "The arrest is part of
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