Microsoft: 58% of Nation-State Cyberattacks Come From Russia
Russia is the source of the lion's share of nation-state cyberattacks Microsoft has observed in the past year (58%), followed by North Korea (23%), Iran (11%), China (8%), and South...
‘FontOnLake’ Malware Family Targets Linux Systems
A previously unknown malware family dubbed FontOnLake is targeting systems running Linux, ESET researchers found.
FontOnLake uses "custom and well-designed modules," malware analyst Vladislav Hrčka wrote in a blog post...
North American Orgs Hit With an Average of 497 Cyberattacks per Week
New data released this week confirms what numerous others have reported as a massive surge in attacks against organizations worldwide since the COVID-19 pandemic forced dramatic changes to workplace...
Wiz Reaches $6B Valuation
Cloud security firm Wiz has received $250 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Greenoaks and insight Partners, and including Sequoia, Salesforce, and other investors, now reaching a...
New CrowdXDR Alliance Defines Data Exchange Standard for XDR
The companies behind the push for the eXtended Detection and Response trend are promising enterprise security teams there’s a way to unify different endpoint, cloud, and network security tools...
Microsoft Fixes Zero-Day Flaw in Win32 Driver
Microsoft Tuesday released patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including a critical privilege escalation flaw in the Win32k driver that a known Chinese-speaking threat group has been exploiting in...
Corelight Unveils Corelight Labs, a Hub for Research and Innovation
Corelight, provider of the industry's leading open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has launched Corelight Labs, a research team within the company dedicated to providing cutting-edge content that...
VirusTotal Shares Data on Ransomware Activity
Attackers employed around 130 ransomware families in 2020 and the first half of 2021, with the GandCrab variant the most active, according to newly released data from VirusTotal's first-ever...
Enterprise Data Storage Environments Riddled With Vulnerabilities
Despite a dramatic increase in ransomware attacks, enterprise storage and backup environments have a dangerously weaker security posture than the compute and network layers of the IT infrastructure, new research...
‘Clumsy’ BlackByte Malware Reuses Crypto Keys, Worms Into Networks
A new family of ransomware dubbed BlackByte has all the hallmarks of a first-development attempt by amateur malware developers, making significant mistakes — such as obfuscating code in a way...
