Day: November 10, 2022

Breaches Enterprise Malware

Russia’s Iridium group deploying new ransomware payload

Prestige ransomware marks dangerous shift in strategy for threat actor Microsoft says [299 words]. What: Security researchers at Microsoft have spotted Russia-based threat group Iridium dropping a new ransomware payload dubbed “Prestige” on systems belonging to organizations in Ukraine and Poland. The Prestige campaign marks a broadening of focus for Iridium from its usual destructive […]

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Enterprise Vulnerabilities

NSA recommends organizations make strategic shift to memory-safe languages

Programming languages such as C and C++ rely too heavily on the programmer not making memory-related mistakes, agency says [300 words]. What: NSA says organizations should consider making a strategic shift from programming languages such as C/C++ to “memory-safe” languages such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Swift. With these languages, memory management does not […]

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