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CERT-In to offer citizens eScan bot cleaning tool

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Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) is celebrating “Cyber Swachhta Pakhwada” from February 1 to 15. To secure the nation’s digital landscape, “Cyber Swachhta Kendra” (CSK) under CERT-In aims to create a secure cyberspace by detecting botnet infections in India and to notify, enable cleaning and securing systems of end users so as to prevent further infections.

As part of this national campaign, eScan, a cybersecurity solutions vendor, is contributing to the cause by providing eScan botnet scanning and cleaning Toolkit for botnet detections on laptops, desktops, and smartphones. This tool will empower citizens to scan and clean their devices of any potential botnet infections, thereby fortifying their digital defences.

eScan botnet cleaning toolkit: Key detailsCERT-In and eScan invite citizens across the country to actively participate in this cybersecurity endeavour. The free Botnet scanning and cleaning toolkit can be easily downloaded from the website of “Cyber Swachhta Kendra” (CSK) and MicroWorld’s official website, equipping users with a robust solution to enhance the security posture of their computers and smartphones.

MicroWorld develops information security solutions that offer protection against current and evolving cyber threats. The organisation houses the brands eScan, MailScan and Nemasis under its banner.


Its product portfolio encompasses anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware, content security, anti-spam, network and host intrusion prevention solutions, app control, data leak and data theft prevention, host and network-based vulnerability assessment, backup, and patch management solutions.

These are available for on-premise deployment or cloud SaaS. Its research team is currently developing new methodologies for security inference using innovative AI models. As an MII OEM headquartered in India, MicroWorld has offices in four countries and is represented by partners across the globe.

By collaborating with eScan and other stakeholders, CERT-In aims to build a resilient and secure digital ecosystem. The Cyber Cleanliness Drive stands as a testament to the collective efforts toward fostering a safer, more secure cyberspace for all citizens.

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Palo Alto Networks® Closes Talon Cyber Security Acquisition and Will Offer Complimentary Enterprise Browser to Qualified SASE AI Customers

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The Talon acquisition extends Palo Alto Networks’ best-in-class SASE solution to help protect all managed and unmanaged devices

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Talon Cyber Security, a pioneer of enterprise browser technology.

“We are thrilled to welcome Talon to Palo Alto Networks,” said Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. “Most work today occurs via web browsers, often on unmanaged devices, which poses enormous security risks. Through the seamless integration of Talon’s Enterprise Browser with Prisma® SASE, we will be elevating our best-in-class solution that helps provide ironclad security and data protection for all users across all applications and from any device or location. Additionally, we plan to extend Talon’s cutting-edge Enterprise Browser technology to our qualified SASE AI customers at no additional cost.” 

In today’s evolving threat landscape, employees frequently use personal and unmanaged devices to access critical business applications, including using mobile devices alongside corporate laptops. While this approach increases productivity, the lack of consistent security, control and visibility across devices increases security risk. To tackle these challenges, organizations need a holistic SASE solution that securely enables users to access vital business applications regardless of their chosen device. As part of that SASE solution, Talon’s Enterprise Browser will provide additional layers of protection against phishing attacks, web-based attacks and malicious browser extensions. Talon also offers extensive controls to help ensure that sensitive data does not escape the confines of the browser, regardless of whether the enterprise manages the device.

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE is the secure foundation for agile, cloud-enabled organizations. Integrating Talon with Prisma Access can provide customers with substantial productivity benefits by enabling unmanaged devices, but also ensures consistent security and deeper visibility into device usage, all while preserving user privacy. This acquisition…

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Sony Investigating After Hackers Offer to Sell Stolen Data

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Sony has launched an investigation after a cybercrime group claimed to have compromised the company’s systems, offering to sell stolen data.  

A representative of the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant told SecurityWeek that it’s currently investigating the situation and has no further comments at this time. 

The probe was launched after a relatively new ransomware group named RansomedVC listed Sony on its Tor-based website, claiming to have compromised all Sony systems. 

“We won’t ransom them,” the hackers said. “We will sell the data due to Sony not wanting to pay. Data is for sale.” 

The cybercriminals have provided several files in an effort to demonstrate their claims, including some Java files and screenshots apparently showing access to source code and applications associated with Sony’s Creators Cloud media production solution. 

One leaked file, a PowerPoint slideshow, is marked ‘confidential’ and appears to be from Sony’s quality department, but it’s dated 2017. 

A majority of the leaked files seem to originate from servers associated with Creators Cloud and the hackers have not provided evidence that all Sony systems have been compromised. It’s not uncommon for these types of cybercrime groups to make exaggerated claims. 

Threat intelligence group VX-Underground reported on X (formerly Twitter) that the cybercriminals did not deploy file-encypting ransomware or steal any corporate data. They allegedly exfiltrated data from Jenkins, SVN, SonarQube, and Creator Cloud development systems. 

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The RansomedVC group’s website currently lists nearly 40 victims, with ransom demands ranging between a few thousand dollars and $1 million, depending on the targeted organization’s size and revenue. The group announced its first victim in early 2023. 

On the same day it announced Sony as a target, RansomedVC also listed Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo as a victim on its website.

The gang claims they do not target Russian and Ukrainian organizations as most of its members are from these countries. 

Cybersecurity firm Flashpoint described RansomedVC’s activities in August, pointing…

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Computer security experts offer advice to freeze out risk of thermal attacks

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Computer security experts offer advice to freeze out risk of thermal attacks
Thermal camera. Credit: University of Glasgow

A team of computer security experts have developed a set of recommendations to help defend against “thermal attacks” which can steal personal information.

Thermal attacks use heat-sensitive cameras to read the traces of fingerprints left on surfaces like smartphone screens, computer keyboards and PIN pads.

Hackers can use the relative intensity of heat traces across recently-touched surfaces to reconstruct users’ passwords.

Last year, Dr. Mohamed Khamis and colleagues from the University of Glasgow set out to demonstrate how easily thermal images could be used to crack passwords.

The team developed ThermoSecure, a system which used AI to scan heat-trace images and correctly guess passwords in seconds, alerting many to the threat of thermal attacks.

Now, Dr. Khamis and colleagues have put together the first comprehensive review of existing computer security strategies, and surveyed users on their preferences on how thermal attacks can be prevented at public payment devices like ATMs or transport ticket dispensers.

Credit: University of Glasgow

Their research, set to be presented as a paper at the USENIX Security Symposium conference in Anaheim, California, on Friday 11 August, also includes advice to manufacturers on how their devices could be made more secure. USENIX Security is widely recognized as one of the leading conferences in the fields of computer security and cybersecurity.

The team identified 15 different approaches described in previous papers on computer security which could reduce the risk of thermal attacks.

Those included ways to reduce the transfer of heat from users’ hands, by wearing gloves or rubber thimbles, or changing the temperature of hands by touching something cold before typing.

Approaches suggested in the literature also included pressing hands against surfaces or breathing on them to obscure their fingerprint heat once they had…

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