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The Hacker News

Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer

Threat actors are continuing to exploit a critical, now-patched security flaw impacting FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) deployments to deliver credential-stealing malware. "The campaign abused trusted endpoint management infrastructure to deliver malware across managed endpoints," Arctic Wolf said. "Threat actors disguised the credential stealer payload as a Fortinet endpoint

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DZone

AI Paradigm Shift: Analytics Without SQL

The idea of “asking data questions in plain English” has been around for a while, but most implementations never made it into production in a serious way. The usual reason is not the language model itself but everything around it: security boundaries, schema ambiguity, cost control, and the fact that analytics systems are rarely clean enough for unconstrained natural language to work reliably. What has changed in the last couple of years is not that natural language is suddenly perfect, but that

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Microsoft Security Blog

The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence presents a comprehensive analysis of The Gentlemen, a Go-based ransomware deployed by affiliates of Storm-2697 that combines per-file ephemeral key encryption with an aggressive self-propagation module to deploy itself across an entire network using series of simultaneous lateral movement techniques per target. The post The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Elevation of privilegeExtortionHuman-operated ransomware
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