Google reportedly has walked away from a potentially massive deal to buy CRM provider HubSpot, a merger that would have helped Google Cloud. Google reportedly has abandoned its plans to acquire CRM specialist HubSpot, axing a potential deal that would have been worth billions and aided Google Cloud. HubSpot generated over $2 billion in revenue…
Read MoreEXECUTIVE SUMMARY In early 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) conducted a SILENTSHIELD red team assessment against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization. During SILENTSHIELD assessments, the red team first performs a no-notice, long-term simulation of nation-state cyber operations. The team mimics the techniques, tradecraft, and behaviors of sophisticated threat actors and…
Read MoreToday, CISA released CISA Red Team’s Operations Against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch Organization Highlights the Necessity of Defense-in-Depth in coordination with the assessed organization. This Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) details key findings and lessons learned from a 2023 assessment, along with the red team’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and associated network defense activity. The…
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Gartner recognized nine vendors in the latest edition of its Magic Quadrant ranking for single-vendor SASE. SASE Magic Quadrant As organizations continue to prioritize providing remote access to distributed teams in 2024, demand for security and networking capabilities to enable hybrid teams continues to surge. And increasingly, customers are looking for a unified technology platform—and…
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The US Justice Department, working in coordination with Canadian and Dutch authorities, has seized two domain names which it claims were being used by Russian-backed hackers to spread disinformation on social media. The FBI has issued a joint cybersecurity advisory with its international partners, detailing the make-up of an AI-enhanced social media bot farm that…
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Advance Auto Parts is sending data breach notifications to over 2.3 million people whose personal data was stolen in recent Snowflake data theft attacks. Advance operates 4,777 stores and 320 Worldpac branches, serving 1,152 independently owned Carquest stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mexico, and various Caribbean islands. On…
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Execs at a health tech startup are sentenced to jail after a massive ad fraud, and a school is shaken after teachers are targeted via TikTok. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus don’t miss our featured interview…
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Vulnerability assessments and vulnerability management sound similar – but they’re not. As a new Enterprise Strategy Group white paper explains, it’s key to understand their differences and to shift from ad-hoc vulnerability assessments to continuous, risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM). Read on to check out highlights from this Tenable-commissioned study and learn how RBVM helps organizations…
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Jul 11, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Network Security The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group codenamed APT41 is suspected to be using an “advanced and upgraded version” of a known malware called StealthVector to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MoonWalk. The new variant of StealthVector – which is also referred to as DUSTPAN – has…
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