Tag: Cyberattacks

‘We sincerely apologize this incident occurred,’ according to a letter to Avis customers. Avis, the car rental company, has disclosed that threat actors accessed one of its business applications and accessed customer personal information. The Parsippany, N.J.-based company has sent letters dated Sept. 4 to customers whose information was accessed in the breach, according to…

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This year’s leading news stories (so far) include the ongoing AI wave that’s remaking the IT industry, the impact of three multi-billion-dollar acquisition deals, the contrasting fortunes of two of the industry’s leading semiconductor companies – and what was likely the biggest IT system failure to date. AI Highs, Service Failure Lows The top news…

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A zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director has reportedly been exploited by Chinese government hackers to target internet service providers and MSPs. Internet service providers and MSPs are the main targets of a cyberattack campaign exploiting a Versa Networks SD-WAN vulnerability and linked to the Chinese government, according to security researchers and media reports. The attacks…

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CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy dives into Cortex AI and Iceberg customer momentum, the impact of Snowflake’s recent cyberattack and how AI will ‘c ontribute materially to revenue’ in 2025 . CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy was bullish about his company’s AI future during Snowflake’s Q2 earnings report on Wednesday, while also downplaying his company’s recent cyberattack and unveiling…

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‘Nothing is safe anymore. The more layers of protection we can have, the better I sleep,’ Randy Jorgensen, managing member of South Jordan, Utah-based RJNetworks, tells CRN. Microsoft will take a phased approach to its requirement that all Azure users adopt multi-factor authentication, starting with Azure portal, Microsoft Entra administration center and Intune admin center…

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‘These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors,’ CISA says in a post online. A government agency is warning about threat actors exploiting a Java deserialization remote code execution vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the exploit to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog under the code…

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Iranian hackers tied to recent U.S. presidential campaign cyberattacks abuse services like Google Workspace, Dropbox and OneDrive, says Google in a new cybersecurity report. Google’s Theat Analysis Group found an Iranian government-backed hacking group, known as APT42, has conducted phishing cyberattacks targeting “accounts associated with the U.S. presidential election.” “In May and June, APT42 targets…

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New disclosures Monday pointed to attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in the three vendors’ platforms. New disclosures Monday revealed attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in widely used platforms from VMware, ServiceNow and Acronis. The attacks have included exploits of two critical-severity vulnerabilities in ServiceNow’s Now Platform as well as a critical vulnerability affecting Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. [Related: SentinelOne CEO:…

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New functionality in the Druva platform helps incident response teams and security analysts identify cyber threats across data landscapes and more quickly recover from data security incidents. Data protection and security provider Druva is expanding its platform with new threat hunting capabilities that will help IT and security teams identify threats throughout their data environments…

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As part of the annual Tech Innovator Awards evaluation process CRN selects a number of the applicants as finalists. Here’s a look at the innovative products that have made the first round of the judging. Innovation Surge The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in the last two years has shaken up…

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