Month: June 2024
‘We came into this space looking to disrupt the space and to change the status quo,’ says Juan Fernandez, SuperOps’ global channel chief. ‘Their approach to the market and how they’re going to market is very similar to the way we are. A lot of other distribution points were not looking for a similar type…
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Secondary threats The exposure of source code held in repositories like this could reveal vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to launch further attacks, security experts warned. “As well as the potential for risk to individuals through exposed PII [personally identifiable information], the leak also increases the risk to the NYT of further targeted intrusions through…
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Cybersecurity company Cylance confirmed the legitimacy of data being sold on a hacking forum, stating that it is old data stolen from a “third-party platform.” A threat actor known as Sp1d3r is selling this stolen data for $750,000, as first spotted by Dark Web Informer. The data allegedly includes a substantial amount of information, such…
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A cybercriminal group is suspected to have stolen data from 165 organizations, Mandiant says. Details disclosed by Mandiant researchers Monday suggest the attacks targeting Snowflake customers had a wider impact than previously suggested, with a “significant” volume of data stolen and more than 100 customers known to be potentially impacted so far. A cybercriminal group…
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‘I’m very proud [that we took] leading-edge technology and brought it to the forefront of the MSPs so that they had something that actually helped them,’ Tim Coach tells CRN in an exclusive interview. Channel chief Tim Coach has left Pia as of Monday, telling CRN in an exclusive interview he is “proud of the…
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Frontier Communications is warning 750,000 customers that their information was exposed in a data breach after an April cyberattack claimed by the RansomHub ransomware operation. Frontier is a leading U.S. communications provider that provides gigabit Internet speeds over a fiber-optic network to millions of consumers and businesses across 25 states. The telecommunications provider says it…
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A group of Israeli researchers explored the security of the Visual Studio Code marketplace and managed to “infect” over 100 organizations by trojanizing a copy of the popular ‘Dracula Official theme to include risky code. Further research into the VSCode Marketplace found thousands of extensions with millions of installs. Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a source…
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A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2024-29849 is now publicly available, making it urgent that admins apply the latest security updates. Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM) is a web-based platform for managing Veeam Backup & Replication installations via a web console. It helps control backup jobs and…
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England’s NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has issued an urgent call to O Positive and O Negative blood donors to book appointments and donate after last week’s cyberattack on pathology provider Synnovis impacted multiple hospitals in London. On June 4, operations at multiple large NHS hospitals in London were disrupted by the ransomware attack that the Russian cybercrime group…
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The telecom firm made the disclosure as an extortion group reportedly claimed Frontier as a data theft victim. Frontier Communications revealed that a previously disclosed cyberattack, which occurred in mid-April, exposed the data of more than 750,000 customers. The Dallas-based telecom firm made the disclosure as an extortion group reportedly claimed Frontier as a data…
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