Month: July 2024
The U.S. cybersecurity agency’s warning comes after a Microsoft report saying multiple ransomware operators have utilized the bug in attacks. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning about risks from a VMware ESXi vulnerability after Microsoft reported that multiple ransomware operators have utilized the bug in attacks. In a post Tuesday, CISA…
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‘We celebrated our 20th anniversary back in April and we’ve grown up to $5 million in revenue. Going through organic growth I thought, ‘We can steadily keep growing this way slowly or I could look at companies that would be a culture fit for us,’ says Wayne Hunter, CEO of AvTek Solutions. After hitting $5…
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A Fortune 50 company paid a record-breaking $75 million ransom payment to the Dark Angels ransomware gang, according to a report by Zscaler ThreatLabz. “In early 2024, ThreatLabz uncovered a victim who paid Dark Angels $75 million, higher than any publicly known amount— an achievement that’s bound to attract the interest of other attackers looking…
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CISA has ordered U.S. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to secure their servers against a VMware ESXi authentication bypass vulnerability exploited in ransomware attacks. Broadcom subsidiary VMware fixed this flaw (CVE-2024-37085) discovered by Microsoft security researchers on June 25 with the release of ESXi 8.0 U3. CVE-2024-37085 allows attackers to add a new user…
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The cybersecurity vendor is reportedly mulling a potential deal that would take the company private. Publicly traded Tenable is reportedly mulling a potential deal that would take the cybersecurity vendor private. According to a Bloomberg report Tuesday, Tenable is considering a sale either to a private equity firm or to a “strategic” buyer. [Related: Tenable…
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The Black Basta ransomware gang has shown resilience and an ability to adapt to a constantly shifting space, using new custom tools and tactics to evade detection and spread throughout a network. Black Basta is a ransomware operator who has been active since April 2022 and is responsible for over 500 successful attacks on companies…
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These are the men and women who are pushing boundaries and turning the IT market on its ear. The Top 25 Disrupters of 2024 have been answering the call from partners and customers to help companies improve their efficiency while also modernizing their IT environments. Whether it’s helping customers and partners to accelerate their migration…
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Mystified as to how this was possible, Guardio noticed that the phishing emails all originated on an SMTP virtual server routed via Office365 Online Exchange before entering a domain-specific relay server operated by Proofpoint. Importantly, that final Proofpoint server was where the DKIM and SPF authenticity would be passed as legitimate, essentially allowing it to…
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CrowdStrike’s shares dropped Tuesday following a report that Delta has hired an attorney over the outage that led to thousands of flight cancellations. CrowdStrike’s shares dropped Tuesday following a report that Delta has hired an attorney over the massive outage that led to thousands of flight cancellations. Meanwhile, a Wall Street firm reportedly told investors…
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Google Chrome now comes with better cookie protection on Windows systems, with the addition of app-bound encryption, which improves defenses against information-stealing malware attacks. As Chrome software engineer Will Harris explained in a blog post published today, Chrome currently uses the most robust techniques provided by each operating system to safeguard sensitive data such as…
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