LinkedIn - WhatsApp - attack - aerospace - defense contractors - ESET - Techxmedia
LinkedIn and WhatsApp used to attack aerospace and defense contractors

According to ESET telemetry, Lazarus targeted companies in Europe (France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Ukraine) and Latin America in the relevant 2021-2022 attacks (Brazil).

Manikandan Thangaraj - Vice President - ManageEngine - interview - IT teams - cybersecurity budgets - techxmedia
IT teams need to prioritise their cybersecurity budgets, says ManageEngine VP

Manikandan Thangaraj, Vice President of ManageEngine, spoke with TECHx Executive Editor Rabab Zehra on the region’s cybersecurity landscape, growing risks, and new work environments in an exclusive interview.

Mohammed Al-Moneer - Regional Director -META - Infoblox - DNS cache poisoning - Unpatched DNS vulnerability - IoT products - techxmedia
Unpatched DNS vulnerability affects many IoT products

Last week, Nozomi Networks released an advisory (tracked as CVE-2022-30295) detailing a vulnerability in the DNS component of uClibc library used in many IoT products.

Sherrod DeGrippo - Vice President - Threat Research and Detection - Proofpoint - Emotet - new delivery techniques - TA542 - Emotet botnet - attack techniques - Techxmedia
Emotet tests new delivery techniques

Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company have observed brand new tactics used to distribute the notorious Emotet botnet, indicating that the cybercriminal group (TA542) is testing new attack techniques.

Tim Bobak - Attack Surface Management Product Lead - Group-IB Attack Surface Management - databases - techxmedia
308,000 incidents of databases were exposed in 2021

Group-IB, a global cybersecurity firm, conducted a deep dive into exposed digital assets discovered in 2021. Group-Attack IB’s Surface Management team examined instances hosting internet-facing databases as part of the research.