New York Opens Joint Security Operations Center in NYC
New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday a Joint Security Operations Center to centralize threat data and enhance coordination on threat intelligence and incident response around the state....
Darktrace Acquires Attack Surface Management Company Cybersprint
CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital...
Ransomware Trained on Manufacturing Firms Led Cyberattacks in Industrial Sector
As industrial network operators and their security teams operate on high alert over worries of potential disruptive attacks by Russian nation-state-controlled hacking teams amid the escalating crisis in Ukraine...
CISA Warns of New Malware Framework Used by Russian ‘Sandworm’ Hacking Team
The infamous Sandworm, aka Voodoo Bear, hacking team tied to the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate’s Russian (GRU’s) Main Centre for Special Technologies (GTsST) has changed up its malware...
More Orgs Suffered Successful Phishing Attacks in 2021 Than in 2020
Enterprise organizations appear to be falling even further behind in their battle against phishing threats despite heightened awareness of the problem and efforts to curb it.
A new study shows...
Attackers Hone Their Playbooks, Become More Agile
Cybercriminals and nation-state actors adapted to defenders' tactics and became more efficient in 2021, with attackers relying more on data leaks combined with ransomware to extort increasing sums of...
Pixelating Text Leads to Information Leakage, Warns Firm
The common practice of blurring text using pixelation — where text is replaced with pixels representing averaged values — always bothered security researcher Dan Petro. Intuitively, he knew that...
Machine Learning in 2022: Data Threats and Backdoors?
Machine-learning algorithms have become a critical part of cybersecurity technology, currently used to identify malware, winnow down the number of alerts presented to security analysts, and prioritize vulnerabilities for...
FBI, US Secret Service Issue Mitigations for BlackByte Ransomware
The FBI and US Secret Service today released a joint cybersecurity advisory on pervasive ransomware-as-a-service group BlackByte, warning that attackers deploying the ransomware had infected organizations in at least three US...
Securonix Secures Over $1B in Growth Investment From Vista Equity
Cloud-native security analytics and operations vendor Securonix has secured more than $1 billion in growth funding from investment firm Vista Equity Partners in the latest deal amid frenzied investor interest...
