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The LockBit group has gone from denying it had any involvement in the ransomware attack on Britain's Royal Mail to trying to bargain for a ransom. The ransomware group's site now lists Royal Mail as a victim and demands it pay a ransom or see stolen data get dumped.
Organizations today struggle with both new attack surface challenges such as cloud configuration and exposed buckets and long-standing ones around vulnerable ports and infrastructure. CEO George Kurtz says CrowdStrike's recent purchase of Reposify will help customers defend their priority assets.
Companies can be blinded by their inside-out view and often benefit from another set of eyes that see their business the same way an attacker would, says IBM's Mary O'Brien. IBM's acquisition of attack surface management firm Randori gives clients another view of areas that need to be remediated.
Security appliances are targets for sophisticated threat actors who take advantage of devices' limited configuration and logging features, as well as their incompatibility with endpoint detection and response. Suspected Chinese hackers took advantage of a Fortinet zero-day to implant a backdoor.
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Galit Lubetzky Sharon, CTO of Wing Security, discusses the challenge of securing SaaS applications, which are decentralized and ever-expanding. She describes how Wing Security manages app inventories and issues of compliance, remediation and privacy.
Essential reading for network defenders: CircleCI's report into its recent breach, which began when malware infected an engineer's laptop. After stealing "a valid, 2FA-backed" single sign-on session cookie, attackers stole customers' secrets and gained unauthorized access to third-party systems.
Darknet markets offering illegal drugs and fraudster tools and services are thriving, despite the constant threat of law enforcement infiltration, disruption, takedown and arrests. In response, multiple drug markets have launched customized Android apps to handle buying, selling and fulfillment.
Rising offensive security star NetSPI has bought boutique penetration testing firm nVisium to help customers assess their cloud defenses. NetSPI says nVisium's deep understanding of specific cloud platforms will come in handy since Azure penetration testing differs from AWS pen testing.
After two sensational years in the public markets during the height of COVID-19, 2022 was a rude awakening for the cybersecurity industry. The four-headed monster of inflation, interest rate hikes, supply chain shortages and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war dragged most stock prices down.
Many ransomware-wielding attackers are expert at preying on their victims' compulsion to clean up the mess. Witness victims' continuing willingness to pay a ransom - separate to a decryptor - in return from a promise from extortionists that they will delete stolen data. As if.
Phishing and other socially-engineered schemes are going to get bolder, the attack surface is only going to get bigger, and enterprises everywhere are going to have to focus more on building cyber resilience. These are among the New Year's predictions from Zoom's new CISO, Michael Adams.
Asset management historically either looked at network traffic or attempted to put an agent on everything, which Axonius CEO Dean Sysman says left organizations drowning in data. Axonius focuses solely on bringing data together from a customer's existing infrastructure and controls.
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