Cyber Threats May 14, 2020 Prioritize Patching and Fix These Commonly Exploited Vulnerabilities A joint alert has been issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ... Read more
Compliance May 14, 2020 2020 Will See Many Businesses Switch to App-Centric Cloud Governance The public cloud will continue to grow in 2020 and multicloud strategies are fast becoming the norm for businesses. Cloud vendors are working hard to ... Read more
Security Breaches May 12, 2020 13% of Organizations Have Experienced a Cyberattack During the COVID-19 Pandemic The transition from a largely office-based workforce to having most employees working from home has left many organizations exposed to cyberattacks. While having employees working ... Read more
Security Breaches May 11, 2020 Cognizant Ransomware Attack Expected to Cost Between $50 and $70 Million The ransomware attack on the IT services company Cognizant is expected to cost between $50 million and $70 million, according to a recent financial report ... Read more
Tools & Practices May 8, 2020 Remote Working Causing Concern Among Cybersecurity Professionals The COVID-19 pandemic has meant businesses have had to transition to a largely at-home workforce rapidly, and that move is causing cybersecurity professionals to lose ... Read more
Compliance May 8, 2020 Europe’s Largest Private Hospital Operator Hit with Snake Ransomware Attack A large-scale Snake ransomware campaign is underway after a period of low-level activity. Snake ransomware was first identified by MalwareHunter Team in January 2020 and ... Read more
Security Breaches May 7, 2020 InfinityBlack Hacking Group Dismantled The InfinityBlack hacking group has been dismantled following an operation by law enforcement agencies in Switzerland and Poland. The InfinityBlack hacking group sold millions of ... Read more
Security Breaches May 7, 2020 Hacker Attacks More than 900,000 Vulnerable WordPress Sites in a Week More than 900,000 WordPress websites have been attacked by a hacker over the space of about a week, according to a recent report from the ... Read more
Trends & Reports May 1, 2020 Rapid7 to Acquire Cloud Security and Governance Firm DivvyCloud Rapid7 has announced it will be acquiring the cloud security and governance firm DivvyCloud for $145 million in a move to improve cloud security for ... Read more
Trends & Reports May 1, 2020 Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report Reveals Major Increase in Cloud Spending Due to COVID-19 Flexera has released its 2020 State of the Cloud Report, which provides insights into use of the cloud by enterprises and SMBs, the cloud strategies ... Read more
Cyber Threats May 1, 2020 Easily Exploitable RCE Salt Vulnerabilities Discovered that Require Urgent Attention Researchers at F-Secure have identified two high severity vulnerabilities in the SaltStack Python-based open source Salt project, which can allow remote code execution as root ... Read more
Security Breaches April 30, 2020 Clop Ransomware Gang Publishes ExecuPharm Data After Non-Payment of Ransom The U.S. pharmaceutical company ExecuPharm recently announced it suffered a ransomware attack on March 13, in which certain corporate and employee information was compromised. The ... Read more
Compliance April 29, 2020 Microsoft Offers Advice to Healthcare Organizations on Reducing Risk of Manual Ransomware Attacks Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations and others involved in the fight against COVID-19 are continuing. In many cases, the attackers gained access to systems many ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 27, 2020 Sophos Discovers and Patches Actively Exploited Flaw in its XG Firewall Sophos has released a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in its XG Firewall which has been exploited in attacks to deliver malware. The flaw was ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 23, 2020 Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws Identified in iOS Mail Application Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in the iOS Mail application that have been exploited by threat actors in attacks on high profile targets ... Read more
Security Breaches April 22, 2020 Four Zero Day Vulnerabilities in IBM Data Risk Manager Have Been Publicly Disclosed Four zero-day vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM) which could allow the downloading of arbitrary files and, if chained together, remote ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 21, 2020 Phishing Campaign Claims Tens of Millions of Euros of Government COVID-19 Payouts A phishing campaign has resulted in losses of tens of millions of Euros for the German North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) government. The NRW government’s Ministry of Economic ... Read more
Security Breaches April 20, 2020 IT Services Firm Cognizant Suffers Maze Ransomware Attack The IT services firm Cognizant experienced a ransomware attack over the weekend that has affected its internal systems and has caused some disruption for its ... Read more
Trends & Reports April 18, 2020 New CloudCheckr CMx Platform Released to Simplify Cloud Management for Large Organizations CloudCheckr has launched a new platform specifically for large organizations with complex organizational structures to help them manage their cloud resources and get the best ... Read more
Trends & Reports April 17, 2020 Zoom Announces New Measures Have Been Implemented to improve Privacy and Security Zoom has faced considerable criticism over privacy and security over the past few weeks. The company was claiming to have implemented end-to-end encryption when Zoom ... Read more
Compliance April 16, 2020 Two Zoom Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Being Offered for Sale for $500,000 Two zero-day flaws in the Zoom videoconferencing platform have allegedly been discovered by hackers who are now offering them for sale. The hackers claim the ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 14, 2020 FTC: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Scams Result in Losses of $12.78 Million in 2020 Figures released by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have revealed the extent of losses to coronavirus and COVID-19 scams in 2020. The FTC received ... Read more
Compliance April 13, 2020 INTERPOL Issues Warning About Increase in Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals Hospitals, research facilities and other healthcare organizations on the front line in the fight against the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and Covid-19 are not only facing ... Read more
Security Breaches April 10, 2020 Travelex Paid Ransomware Gang $2.3 Million for Keys to Unlock Encrypted Files The Sodinokibi ransomware attack on Travelex that started on New Year’s Eve and caused weeks of disruption was resolved by paying the ransom demand. The ... Read more
Tools & Practices April 10, 2020 CloudLIVE Conference Goes 100% Virtual on May 20, 2020 CloudLIVE is the industry-leading multicloud conference dedicated to transforming and scaling businesses in the cloud. The CloudHealth by VMware-hosted event brings together individuals from across ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 8, 2020 Zoom Installers are Being Bundled with Malware The sheer number of people now working from home to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus lockdown has resulted in huge interest in teleconferencing platforms ... Read more
Compliance April 7, 2020 More Than 82% of Public-Facing Exchange Servers Still Vulnerable to Critical Exchange Control Panel Flaw An analysis of public-facing Exchange servers by Rapid7 has revealed 82.5% are still vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Exchange Control ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 6, 2020 Lokibot Information Stealer Distributed in Spear Phishing ampaign Impersonating WHO Researchers at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs have identified a new spear phishing campaign that impersonates the World Health Organization (WHO) to distribute the LokiBot information stealer. ... Read more
Cyber Threats April 3, 2020 Beware of New Coronavirus Wiper Malware A new wiper malware has been detected that uses a similar method to the 2017 NotPetya wiper malware to trash computers by overwriting the Master ... Read more
Compliance April 3, 2020 Zoom Security Concerns Mount as New Flaws Identified The 2019 Novel Coronavirus pandemic has forced many employees into telecommuting with them maintaining contact with the office through videoconferencing apps such as Zoom. Zoom ... Read more