A look at the expanding roles of SREs and the new skills needed: cost management and AIImagine the CTO walks into your team meeting and drops a bombshell: "We need to cut our cloud costs by 30% this quarter." As the lead SRE, this might cause a strong reaction — isn’t your job about ensuring reliability? When did you become responsible for the company's cloud bill?If you've had … [Read more...] about The evolving role of SREs: Balancing reliability, cost, and innovation
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CrowdStrike Cloud Security Defines the Future of an Evolving Market
Today’s businesses are building their future in the cloud. They rely on cloud infrastructure and services to operate, develop new products and deliver greater value to their customers. The cloud is the catalyst for digital transformation among organizations of all sizes and industries. But while the cloud powers immeasurable speed, growth and innovation, it also presents risk. … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Cloud Security Defines the Future of an Evolving Market
BazarCall Callback Phishing Attacks Constantly Evolving Its Social Engineering Tactics
The operators behind the BazaCall call back phishing method have continued to evolve with updated social engineering tactics to deploy malware on targeted networks. The scheme eventually acts as an entry point to conduct financial fraud or the delivery of next-stage payloads such as ransomware, cybersecurity company Trellix said in a report published last week. Primary targets … [Read more...] about BazarCall Callback Phishing Attacks Constantly Evolving Its Social Engineering Tactics
Microsoft Warns About Evolving Capabilities of Toll Fraud Android Malware Apps
Microsoft has detailed the evolving capabilities of toll fraud malware apps on Android, pointing out its "complex multi-step attack flow" and an improved mechanism to evade security analysis. Toll fraud belongs to a category of billing fraud wherein malicious mobile applications come with hidden subscription fees, roping in unsuspecting users to premium content without their … [Read more...] about Microsoft Warns About Evolving Capabilities of Toll Fraud Android Malware Apps
Abcbot — A New Evolving Wormable Botnet Malware Targeting Linux
Researchers from Qihoo 360's Netlab security team have released details of a new evolving botnet called "Abcbot" that has been observed in the wild with worm-like propagation features to infect Linux systems and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets. While the earliest version of the botnet dates back to July 2021, new variants observed as recently … [Read more...] about Abcbot — A New Evolving Wormable Botnet Malware Targeting Linux
Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware
The cybersecurity world is constantly evolving to new forms of threats and vulnerabilities. But ransomware proves to be a different animal—most destructive, persistent, notoriously challenging to prevent, and is showing no signs of slowing down. Falling victim to a ransomware attack can cause significant data loss, data breach, operational downtime, costly recovery, legal … [Read more...] about Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware
How AppTrana Managed Cloud WAF Tackles Evolving Attacking Techniques
Web applications suffer continuously evolving attacks, where a web application firewall (WAF) is the first line of defense and a necessary part of organizations' cybersecurity strategies.WAFs are getting more sophisticated all the time, but as its core protection starts with efficient pattern matching, typically using Regular Expressions, and classifying malicious traffic to … [Read more...] about How AppTrana Managed Cloud WAF Tackles Evolving Attacking Techniques
Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics
Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group, known for targeting financial organizations primarily in former Soviet states and neighboring countries is now aggressively targeting banks in more than 30 countries across America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.Active since at least September 2016, Silence APT group's most recent successful campaign was against Bangladesh-based … [Read more...] about Russian Hacking Group Targeting Banks Worldwide With Evolving Tactics