Month: August 2024
Schneider Electric Vice President of U.S. Channels Gordon Lord tells CRN that partners need to look at Schneider Electric as a “consultant and true business partner” that can support their AI and sustainability business. Schneider Electric Vice President of U.S. Channels Gordon Lord is urging partners to prepare for the coming on-premises edge computing AI…
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Threat actors have hijacked more than 35,000 registered domains in so-called Sitting Ducks attacks that allow claiming a domain without having access to the owner’s account at the DNS provider or registrar. In a Sitting Ducks attack, cybercriminals exploit configuration shortcomings at the registrar level and insufficient ownership verification at DNS providers. Researchers at DNS-focused security vendor Infoblox…
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Pharmaceutical giant Cencora has confirmed that patients’ protected health information and personally identifiable information (PII) was exposed in a February cyberattack. Cencora, previously known as AmerisourceBergen, specializes in pharmaceutical services, providing drug distribution and technology solutions for doctor’s offices, pharmacies, and animal healthcare. The company is ranked #10 on the Fortune 500 and #24 on the Global Fortune…
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Matters related to the widely felt July 19 outage have begun shifting into the legal sphere this week. Matters related to the widely felt July 19 outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update have begun shifting into the legal sphere this week. And this is where things are likely to remain for some time, according…
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‘We’re building towards curating and collecting a bunch of information to be able to provide back intelligence and insights on the industry,’ says Colin Knox, CEO of Gradient MSP. ‘Benchmarking was just the number one thing that kept coming back to us from everybody saying, ‘Can we get pricing and cost benchmarking so that we…
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‘Based on its market investigation, the Commission found that the transaction, as notified, would not significantly reduce competition on such markets,’ the European Commission said. Citing “no competition concerns” in the European Economic Area, the European Commission Thursday unconditionally approved Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion blockbuster acquisition of Juniper Networks “Based on its market investigation,…
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On Friday posts were published on the internet containing what appeared to be the personal information of Israeli Olympic athletes. As the Times of Israel reports, information including athletes’ names, phone numbers, addresses, passwords, family relationships, photographs, military status and blood test results were published on Telegram. The hackers also created a website and Twitter…
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The staggering sum of US $75 million has reportedly been paid to a ransomware gang in what is believed to be the largest known ransom payment made by a cyber attack victim since records began. Researchers at Zscaler claim in a new report that the record-breaking figure was paid by an undisclosed Fortune 50 company…
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Image: MidjourneyThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of scammers posing as employees of cryptocurrency exchanges to steal funds from unsuspecting victims. While the FBI didn’t share what prompted today’s public service announcement, it was likely motivated by a surge of reports of fraudsters using this tactic to access victims’ accounts and siphon off their…
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Aug 01, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence Over a million domains are susceptible to takeover by malicious actors by means of what has been called a Sitting Ducks attack. The powerful attack vector, which exploits weaknesses in the domain name system (DNS), is being exploited by over a dozen Russian-nexus cybercriminal actors to stealthily hijack…
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