Play ransomware is the latest ransomware gang to start deploying a dedicated Linux locker for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro, whose analysts spotted the new ransomware variant, says the locker is designed to first check whether it’s running in an ESXi environment before executing and that it can evade detection on…
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Using just-in-time controls to secure access to your SaaS applications will reduce your cloud attack surface by avoiding permanent access and enforcing least privilege. By granting permissions on a time-limited, as-needed basis only, just-in-time (JIT) controls are an important security mechanism for protecting access to cloud resources. JIT access is becoming a popular cloud security…
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‘We let down the very people we committed to protect,’ wrote Shawn Henry, longtime CSO at CrowdStrike, in a LinkedIn post. The massive global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update has been a “gut punch” for the company, though it “pales in comparison” to what customers and partners have been going through, CrowdStrike…
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The US government has imposed sanctions on two Russian cybercriminals for cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure. According to a US Treasury press release, the two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR). Pankratova, known online as ‘YuliYA,’ is allegedly the…
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From Google’s potential blockbuster acquisition of security startup Wiz to the massive CrowdStrike and Microsoft chaos, here’s four big things to watch for during Google Cloud’s earnings results slated for Tuesday. Google Cloud’s parent company Alphabet is releasing the financial earnings results for its second quarter 2024 on Tuesday with potential huge discussions around the…
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‘Over the weekend, we saw about 50 new email domains that were purchased by cybercriminals to impersonate CrowdStrike,’ HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks tells CRN. Phishing emails have been circulating around inboxes after news of the CrowdStrike IT outage with scammers impersonating support teams to remediate the issue, and HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks said the messages…
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The largest trial court in the United States, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, closed all 36 courthouse locations on Monday to restore systems affected by a Friday ransomware attack. The attack, which has not yet been claimed by a ransomware operation, affected the entire network of the Los Angeles Superior Court. This includes…
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Flight cancellations continued through the weekend while the two vendors sought to help expedite the recovery process for the millions of affected Windows devices. Following the massive CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage early Friday morning, flight cancellations continued through the weekend while the two vendors sought to help expedite the recovery process for the millions of affected Windows…
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For many enterprises, IT infrastructures have broadened to the extent that they seemingly have no boundaries. Many employees are working remotely or via a hybrid model. Cloud-based services have become the norm. Edge computing and the internet of things are continuing to grow. This can all be great from the standpoint of keeping staffers happy,…
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