Attacks evolve too quickly for businesses to maintain truly resilient security
As organizations embrace digital transformation and AI, security teams face mounting pressure to defend an ever-expanding attack surface according to a new report.
The research from Cobalt suggests traditional reactive security measures cannot keep pace with modern threats, particularly when adversaries leverage automation and AI to scale their attacks. 60 percent of respondents believe attackers are evolving too quickly for them to maintain a truly resilient security posture.
Proving Linux is not a safe sanctuary, ESET finds first Linux-targeting UEFI bootkit malware
Linux-based operating systems have long been heralded as being inherently more secure than Windows. Whether or not this is true is open to debate, as is the impact of user numbers on making an OS a target for malware writers.
A key security concern in recent times has been UEFI bootkits, and it has been something affecting only Windows-based systems. Now, however, security firm ESET has revealed details of Bootkitty, the first UEFI bootkit designed for Linux systems.