A delay in finalizing enterprise deals and a shorter average contract duration have forced Fortinet to lower its sales forecast going forward. The Silicon Valley-based platform security vendor said average contract length shortened from 29.5 months to 28 months in the fiscal quarter ended June 30.
A hacking campaign that exploited Ivanti mobile device manager to target the Norwegian government began in April or possibly earlier, say cybersecurity agencies from the U.S. and Norway. Mobile device management systems are "attractive targets for threat actors," the alert warns.
A Russian intelligence hacking campaign actively targeted European diplomats and think tanks as part of an espionage operation that lasted nearly six months. One characteristic of APT29 is how it blends in malicious traffic with legitimate traffic in order to evade detection.
Threat actors who recently attacked a dozen Norwegian ministries by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Ivanti's endpoint management software appeared to have another zero-day flaw that tied to the overall attack exploit chain, Ivanti confirmed on Friday.
A mobile security vendor patched a critically rated zero-day vulnerability in its endpoint management platform that had been used by unknown hackers to attack the Norwegian government. The flaw is rated 10 on the CVSS scale. Multiple governments use the platform - the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile.
Now that the long-awaited FedNow faster-payment program is operating, experts debate whether U.S. financial institutions will embrace the payment ecosystem and whether the Federal Reserve and the banking industry can overcome implementation challenges and mitigate cybersecurity and fraud issues.
FedNow, the Federal Reserve's first instant payment service, officially launched on Thursday. FedNow so far has 35 banks and credit unions and 16 service providers certified to use the service, including community banks and large lenders such as JPMorgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon.
The proposed $2.45 billion sale of Forcepoint's government security business to TPG will fuel investment and growth for both public sector and commercial customers, CEO Manny Rivelo said. Forcepoint determined that its government practice would benefit from an additional set of investments.
Many critical infrastructure sector organizations, especially smaller entities, will likely struggle to comply with an upcoming requirement to report cyber incidents to federal regulators within 72 hours - due to an assortment of reasons, said Stanley Mierzwa of Kean University.
Suspected Chinese hackers gained access to senior U.S. officials' emails by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's cloud environment. While Microsoft said customers couldn't have prevented the attack, the U.S. government says logging was key to spotting it.
Russia is mulling a ban on iPhone use by government employees after a suspected American intelligence campaign exploited vulnerabilities in the device to spy on Russian staff. The ban is the latest in a slew of similar measures taken by Moscow against Western tech devices.
Security experts say China-based hackers are "leading their peers in the deployment of zero-days" in the wake of another wide-ranging attack that abused a flaw in Microsoft Outlook and used forged authentication tokens to access email accounts of governments in the United States and Western Europe.
A security researcher discovered a Bangladesh government web portal that exposed the personal information of about 50 million citizens, including their birth registration records, phone numbers and national identity numbers. His efforts to notify the government of the security flaw went unanswered.
Francisco Partners plans to split Forcepoint's government and commercial security practices, selling the former to TPG for $2.45 billion. The deal represents an impressive return on investment for Francisco Partners, which bought all of Forcepoint from Raytheon in January 2021 for just $1.1 billion.
A Chinese nation-state group is hacking foreign affairs ministries and embassies across Europe, employing a sophisticated HTML-smuggling technique to deliver the insidious PlugX remote access Trojan to compromised systems. The technique raises concern about the security of diplomatic institutions.
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