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Carl Ballenger

CISSP, CCSP cloud security advocate interested in AI and helping others pivot their educational goals toward information and cloud security certification. Thank you for your interest in CarlsCloud™!

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Attack Vectors

SolarWinds Malware: Undetected For Years

Nobelium, the Microsoft-assigned moniker for the SolarWinds intrusion in December 2020, is also tracked by the wider cybersecurity community under the names UNC2452 (FireEye), SolarStorm (Unit 42), StellarParticle (Crowdstrike), Dark Halo (Volexity), and Iron Ritual (Secureworks).

By Carl Ballenger
• 5 years ago
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Apple

MacOS Attack Vector: DazzleSpy Backdoor

Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET attributed the intrusion to an actor with "strong technical capabilities," calling out the campaign's overlaps to that of a similar digital offensive disclosed by Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in November 2021.

By Carl Ballenger
• 5 years ago