Cyberwarfare has emerged as the bridge between espionage and kinetic conflict. "It's here," says Chase Cunningham of Ericom Software. He discusses how enterprise cybersecurity leaders should now think more deeply about their adversaries' motivations and capabilities.
When contracting for modern MDR services, Lyndon Brown of Pondurance advises prospective customers to ask about more than the managed service and detection. He says they should ask tough questions about response. Brown shares his insights and strategies.
The Cyber Threat Alliance just celebrated its fifth birthday, and President and CEO J. Michael Daniel says the membership and information sharing both are growing at an impressive pace. He discusses the surge in ransomware and how organizations should respond.
Undisclosed attackers have likely stolen $1.7 million by deploying Clipminer, a cryptomining and clipboard hijacking malware, on compromised systems, says the Symantec Threat Hunter Team. According to the team, Clipminer is a copycat or an evolved version of cryptomining Trojan KryptoCibule.
Forescout has agreed to purchase startup Cysiv to help OT and IoT customers analyze, detect and respond to threats using cloud-native data analytics. The proposed acquisition will make it easier for customers to mine and cross-reference data that's stored on Forescout's platform.
When it comes to security today, perhaps the number one issue organizations are facing is the exponential growth of security threats, including the complexity and potential to inflict major damage. Security architects and Security Operations (SecOps) teams are scrambling to respond as enterprises continue to diversify...
Atlassian has issued a patch for its Confluence workspace collaboration tool, which is being targeted in the wild with a zero-day vulnerability that gives attackers unauthenticated remote code execution privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10 out of 10 for criticality.
Devo has closed its Series F round and notched a $2 billion valuation to incorporate more capabilities into its SOC via acquisition. The company plans to use the $100 million to buy companies that will provide customers with additional intelligence on top of Devo's data for specific use cases.
A zero-day vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence, a workspace collaboration tool that serves millions of daily active users, is being targeted in the wild. The flaw, according to the company's security advisory, gives attackers unauthenticated remote code execution privileges.
Boston Children's Hospital thwarted a cyberattack by government-backed Iranian hackers last summer after U.S. authorities received intelligence about the pending assault and alerted the hospital, says FBI Director Christopher Wray, who called Iran's planned cyberattack "despicable."
Late-stage security startup Cybereason has laid off 10% of its employees in response to deteriorating market conditions less than a year after raising $325 million. The news was first reported by Israeli publications Calcalist and Globes, which both said roughly 100 employees had been let go.
ReliaQuest has agreed to buy Digital Shadows for $160 million to infuse its security operations platform with threat intelligence, attack surface management, and dark web monitoring. The deal will give clients more visibility and context around threats facing their networks, endpoints and cloud.
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