Month: August 2024
CSO caught up with Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s SVP of counter adversary operations, whose team produced the report, for an exclusive interview on the report’s findings. (Questions regarding the “Channel File 291 incident” were directed to CrowdStrike’s Remediation and Guidance Hub, where the company is providing continuous information and updates, including an FAQ.) Famous Chollima’s shocking…
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The vendor’s expansion into SIEM provides a new option that is less complicated and more affordable than competing platforms, while still providing a major improvement to security outcomes, Huntress CTO Chris Bisnett tells CRN. Huntress unveiled its new managed SIEM offering that aims to be a less-complicated and more-affordable alternative focused on the unique needs…
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Securonix: AI-reinforced SIEM Securonix introduced two new capabilities within its Securonix EON suite — Cyber Data Fabric and Noise Canceling SIEM. These updates are designed to enhance the company’s Unified Defense SIEM solution, targeted at helping CyberOps teams tackle sophisticated cyberattacks more effectively. Cyber Data Fabric offers modular architecture for intelligent data classification, ensuring relevant…
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As AI transforms industries, security remains critical. Discover the importance of a security-first approach in AI development, the risks of open-source tools, and how Tenable’s solutions can help protect your systems. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries and starting to be massively adopted by software developers to build core business applications. However, as organizations embrace…
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The AI-powered cybersecurity vendor is aiming for a 2025 IPO after achieving a $5.1 billion valuation, Abnormal Security CEO Evan Reiser tells CRN. Abnormal Security plans to use its newly announced funding infusion of $250 million to advance its cybersecurity platform powered by behavioral AI technologies and work toward going public late next year, Co-founder…
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Aug 06, 2024The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Threat Detection Everyone loves the double-agent plot twist in a spy movie, but it’s a different story when it comes to securing company data. Whether intentional or unintentional, insider threats are a legitimate concern. According to CSA research, 26% of companies who reported a SaaS security incident were…
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Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Windows Security The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Moonstone Sleet has continued to push malicious npm packages to the JavaScript package registry with the aim of infecting Windows systems, underscoring the persistent nature of their campaigns. The packages in question, harthat-api and harthat-hash, were published on July 7, 2024,…
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A massive cyberattack targeting Mobile Guardian, a UK-based mobile device management (MDM) firm, has caused widespread disruption to schools and businesses worldwide, including North America, Europe, and Singapore. The incident has resulted in the loss of data and remote wiping of iOS and ChromeOS devices for thousands of users. Mobile Guardian has acknowledged the global…
Read MoreA Better Investigatory Board for Cyber Incidents When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrike’s faulty update that recently unfolded, ensnarling banks, airlines, and emergency services to the tune of billions of…
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Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananAndroid / Malware Users in Russia have been the target of a previously undocumented Android post-compromise spyware called LianSpy since at least 2021. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, which discovered the malware in March 2024, noted its use of Yandex Cloud, a Russian cloud service, for command-and-control (C2) communications as a way to avoid…
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