Windows and Linux server both targets for crypto-mining malware

Microsoft is reporting on a new variant of the Sysrv botnet malware – Sysrv-K, that infects both Windows and Linux servers. This malware can compromise a wide range of vulnerabilities including WordPress plug-ins and Spring Cloud. Once in the malware installs and operates the Monero cryptocurrency miner. Monero-mining botnet targets …

CISA joint advisory on access control. Are you still missing MFA?

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a joint advisory with the cyber security organisations from the UK, New Zealand, Netherlands and Canada listing ten regularly exploited weak security controls, poor configurations, and bad practices that allow threat actors to compromise networks. Here is the article: Weak Security …