Category: Viral
ESET Research ESET researchers detected multiple, widespread phishing campaigns targeting SMBs in Poland during May 2024, distributing various malware families 30 Jul 2024 • , 8 min. read Just a few months back, ESET Research published a blogpost about massive phishing campaigns across Central and Eastern Europe carried out during the second half of 2023.…
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Whole Foods self-checkout lanes were closed and Alexa devices weren’t working. Amazon Web Services was dealing with a significant outage Tuesday as Amazon-owned Whole Foods supermarkets closed self-checkout lanes, delivery drivers abandoned their routes and Alexa devices stopped working. The AWS service health dashboard said that there was a “degradation” of multiple services and the…
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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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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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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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Amazon’s next quarterly earnings call should feature details on Amazon Web Services management and AWS’ AI and database products. A new Amazon Web Services CEO. The opportunity in artificial intelligence. And innovation in the database business. These are some of the subjects likely to come up during the Seattle-based cloud giant’s Thursday earnings call, when…
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As part of CRN’s Top 100 Executives Of 2024 list, we highlight 25 sales executives leading the channel charge. With technologies such as AI and security becoming top priorities for many businesses, it’s up to vendors’ channel sales leaders to ensure they arm partners with the right offerings for their joint customers and the right…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is “expected to secure unconditional EU antitrust approval” from the European Commission, according to a report from Reuters. Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is “expected to secure unconditional EU antitrust approval” from the European Commission, according to a report from Reuters citing…
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In an interview with CRN, SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten says the massive outage was the result of a ‘very risky architecture.’ The massive Microsoft Windows outage set off by a CrowdStrike update on July 19 was the consequence of “bad design decisions” by the security vendor that allowed a defective file to hobble servers and…
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In a statement responding to CRN’s interview with SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten, CrowdStrike says that its July 19 update did not bypass Microsoft’s ‘clear kernel review process.’ CrowdStrike said the July 19 update that led to a global IT outage did not bypass Microsoft’s “clear kernel review process” for Windows. In a statement, CrowdStrike responded…
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