Author Archives: Onsite Computing, Inc.

Transportation Companies Hit by Cyberattacks Using Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Malware

Transportation and logistics companies in North America are the target of a new phishing campaign that delivers a variety of information stealers and remote access trojans (RATs). The activity cluster, per Proofpoint, makes use of compromised legitimate email accounts belonging to transportation and shipping companies so as to inject malicious content into existing email conversations. […]

When technical debt strikes the security stack

Most veteran CISOs implicitly understand the concept of technical debt and how it increases the risk across IT assets and applications. The idea is simple in theory, if difficult in practice to address. Technical debt is the accumulation of all of those technical improvements slated for some other time—deferred work that’s put off because there’s […]

CISA Flags Critical Ivanti vTM Vulnerability Amid Active Exploitation Concerns

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS score: 9.8), which could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the […]

CrowdStrike defends access to Windows kernel at US Congressional hearing into July worldwide update failure

A CrowdStrike executive told a US Congressional hearing on Tuesday that the company’s endpoint detection and response sensor has to continue accessing the Windows kernel, despite criticism by some cybersecurity experts that the kernel access contributed to the crash of millions of Windows computers around the world in July. Access to the kernel by cybersecurity […]

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