May 24, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Threat Intelligence The MITRE Corporation has revealed that the cyber attack targeting the not-for-profit company towards late December 2023 by exploiting zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) involved the actor creating rogue virtual machines (VMs) within its VMware environment. "The adversary created their own rogue VMs within … [Read more...] about Hackers Created Rogue VMs to Evade Detection in Recent MITRE Cyber Attack
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Elastic Observability helps monitor your Azure workloads on the new Arm-based VMs
Microsoft Azure’s recently launched new Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) feature the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor. These new VMs are engineered to efficiently run horizontally scalable workloads such as web servers, application servers, and open source databases. They deliver excellent price-performance and represent an important addition to Microsoft Azure's portfolio of … [Read more...] about Elastic Observability helps monitor your Azure workloads on the new Arm-based VMs
Cloud-based Cryptocurrency Miners Targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs
GitHub Actions and Azure virtual machines (VMs) are being leveraged for cloud-based cryptocurrency mining, indicating sustained attempts on the part of malicious actors to target cloud resources for illicit purposes. "Attackers can abuse the runners or servers provided by GitHub to run an organization's pipelines and automation by maliciously downloading and installing their … [Read more...] about Cloud-based Cryptocurrency Miners Targeting GitHub Actions and Azure VMs
Critical Flaws Discovered in Azure App That Microsoft Secretly Installs on Linux VMs
Microsoft on Tuesday addressed a quartet of security flaws as part of its Patch Tuesday updates that could be abused by adversaries to target Azure cloud customers and elevate privileges as well as allow for remote takeover of vulnerable systems. The list of flaws, collectively called OMIGOD by researchers from Wiz, affect a little-known software agent called Open Management … [Read more...] about Critical Flaws Discovered in Azure App That Microsoft Secretly Installs on Linux VMs