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Data extortion and ransomware attacks have had a massive impact on businesses during the first half of 2024. Biggest Cyberattacks And Breaches If the pace of major cyberattacks during the first half of 2024 has seemed to be nonstop, that’s probably because it has been: The first six months of the year have seen organizations…
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Modern Intel processors, including chips from the Raptor Lake and the Alder Lake generations are susceptible to a new type of a high-precision Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack dubbed ‘Indirector,’ which could be used to steal sensitive information from the CPU. Indirector exploits flaws in Indirect Branch Predictor (IBP) and Branch Target Buffer (BTB), two…
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Cisco has patched an NX-OS zero-day exploited in April attacks to install previously unknown malware as root on vulnerable switches. Cybersecurity firm Sygnia, who reported the incidents to Cisco, linked the attacks to a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor it tracks as Velvet Ant. “Sygnia detected this exploitation during a larger forensic investigation into the China-nexus cyberespionage group…
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The software maker says it’s continuing to restore systems nearly two weeks after it was struck by a ransomware attack. CDK Global said Monday that it expects to complete the recovery from its recent ransomware attack by later this week, with a projection that all car dealerships will be reconnected to its platform by July…
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‘This funding is going to help us with our globalization strategy,’ says Tiffany Ricks, founder and CEO of HacWare. ‘Our goal is to leverage AI to make sure we take the guesswork out of training your employees on the evolving threats.’ Cybersecurity education firm HacWare Inc. is one of 20 Black- and Latino-led companies that…
Read MoreJul 01, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain / Software Security A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting downstream customers at severe risks. The vulnerabilities allow “any malicious actor to claim ownership over thousands of unclaimed…
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‘By combining our best-in-class software with Metrics’ cloud-based simulation as a service, we are excited to bring this groundbreaking technology to our EDA [electric design automation] and semiconductor customers,’ says Altair CEO James Scapa. AI cloud specialist Altair is acquiring Metrics Design Automation in a move to transform the semiconductor market by making top-notch automation…
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Auvik CEO Doug Murray tells CRN he is aiming to put more muscle behind sales, channel marketing and a go-to-market strategy to grow the channel business — and making it one of the fastest-growing parts of the company is ‘top of mind.’ In the last year, Auvik has seen 45 percent year-over-year growth, which CEO…
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Additional customers are now believed to have had their emails viewed in connection with the compromise of Microsoft’s corporate email system by the Midnight Blizzard threat group. Microsoft has reportedly sent out more notifications to customers impacted by the compromise of its corporate email system by Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard. According to Bloomberg, the…
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Nvidia, Silverfort and Pax8 are among the ISVs to receive Microsoft Partner of the Year awards this year. A chip making giant. An identity protection upstart. And a disruptor to IT distribution. Nvidia, Silverfort and Pax8 are among the independent software vendors (ISVs) to receive Microsoft Partner of the Year awards this year in a…
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