Pax8, GuidePoint Security, Zones, AWS, Oracle and Salesforce were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves during May 2024. Pax8’s new CEO. A new CMO at GuidePoint Security. And Zones’ new chief commercial officer. Scott Chasin, formerly with ProtectWise; Rachel Haag, formerly of Workato; and Neal Campbell, formerly of CDW, were some…
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‘By acquiring WalkMe, we are doubling down on the support we provide our end users, helping them to quickly adopt new solutions and features to get the maximum value out of their IT investments,’ says SAP CEO Christian Klein. SAP is acquiring adoption platform specialist WalkMe in a move to boost its Signavio, LeanIX and…
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Tenable®, the Exposure Management company, today announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with Deloitte, a leader in global security consulting services. Deloitte has added the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, Tenable Cloud Security and Tenable OT Security to its portfolio of available cyber solutions for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) cyber risk management. Leveraging Tenable’s…
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‘Demand for HPE’s AI systems is accelerating at a faster pace, and our solid execution enabled us to more than double our AI systems revenue sequentially to over $900 million,’ said HPE CEO Antonio Neri. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeing accelerating demand for AI systems with revenue in that segment more than doubling sequentially to…
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The expansion of the Falcon Flex subscription model, cyber insurance and cloud security are among the major topics at the cybersecurity vendor’s event this week, according to Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard. The expansion of CrowdStrike’s Falcon Flex subscription model, cyber insurance and cloud security are among the major focus areas at the cybersecurity giant’s…
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Security researchers analyzing the relatively new RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service believe that it has evoloved from the currently defunct Knight ransomware project. RansomHub has a short history and operated mainly as a data theft and extortion group that sells stolen files to the highest bidder. The gang grabbed attention in mid-April when it leaked stolen data from United Health subsidiary Change Healthcare…
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Early in 2024, Wing Security released its State of SaaS Security report, offering surprising insights into emerging threats and best practices in the SaaS domain. Now, halfway through the year, several SaaS threat predictions from the report have already proven accurate. Fortunately, SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) solutions have prioritized mitigation capabilities to address many…
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Jun 05, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence An unnamed high-profile government organization in Southeast Asia emerged as the target of a “complex, long-running” Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage operation codenamed Crimson Palace. “The overall goal behind the campaign was to maintain access to the target network for cyberespionage in support of Chinese state interests,” Sophos researchers…
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“The NtQuerySystemInformation function allows the caller to obtain information about the current system’s physical details such as the number of logical processors available,” Arctic Wolf said. “This information can be useful when determining how many threads the multi-threaded encryption routine should allocate.” Once critical system information is obtained, encryption is attempted. “Using the system information…
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An analysis of a nascent ransomware strain called RansomHub has revealed it to be an updated and rebranded version of Knight ransomware, itself an evolution of another ransomware known as Cyclops. Knight (aka Cyclops 2.0) ransomware first arrived in May 2023, employing double extortion tactics to steal and encrypt victims’ data for financial gain. It’s…
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