Federal agents arrested the alleged administrator of the criminal underground forum BreachForums, tracing him to a small town in New York's Hudson Valley. FBI agents say Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a resident of Peekskill, confessed to being "Pompompurin."
Chinese threat actors are turning security appliances into penetration pathways, forcing firewall maker Fortinet to again attempt to fend off hackers with a patch. Mandiant researchers say suspected Beijing hackers it tracks as UNC3886 has been targeting chip-based firewall and virtualization boxes.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss how the Silicon Valley Bank crash will affect innovation in the cybersecurity space, why the SEC fined cloud provider Blackbaud $3 million for its "erroneous" breach details, and why the feds fined a web hosting firm in a kids' insurance site hack.
In this week's data breach roundup: medical device manufacturer Zoll, CHU University hospitals, Australian company Latitude Financial, Hawaiian death registry, Los Angeles Housing Authority, Indian Railway ticketing app, updates on U.S. Marshals Service and Congress, and a new ransomware decryptor!
Microsoft and CrowdStrike once again dominate Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection. Cybereason has risen to the leaders quadrant and Trellix has fallen to a niche player. The endpoint protection market has rapidly matured in recent years - 50% of organizations have already adopted EDR.
Australian personal lending provider Latitude Financial Services disclosed to regulators on Thursday hacking incidents affecting more than 300,000 consumers. "Sophisticated" hackers made off with nearly 103,000 driver's licenses and an additional 225,000 "customer records," the company said.
U.S. cybersecurity officials on Thursday issued an alert about a 4-year-old software vulnerability that has been exploited by hackers, including one APT group, in a federal civilian agency. Users are advised to immediately apply the software patch to the Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX.
Rapid7 has purchased a ransomware prevention vendor founded by a former Israel Defense Forces captain to strengthen its managed detection and response muscle. The Minerva Labs purchase will allow Rapid7 to deliver advanced ransomware prevention across cloud resources and traditional infrastructure.
In the latest "Proof of Concept" panel discussion, two Capitol Hill observers at Venable, Grant Schneider and Jeremy Grant, join Information Security Media Group editors to break down the Biden administration's new U.S. national cybersecurity strategy and answer the question, "Is it really viable?"
Threat actors who mine digital assets using other people's infrastructure have found a lucrative new cryptocurrency to motivate their hacking: the privacy-focused currency named Dero. CrowdStrike says it discovered a first - a Dero cryptojacking operation operating on a Kubernetes cluster.
Modern enterprises prepare for when, not if, a significant cyber intrusion will occur. Persistent threats put reputation and revenue streams at risk, making security readiness against complex threats an increasingly critical priority from the top down.
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SentinelOne has partnered with Wiz and revamped its pipeline generation efforts to capitalize on growing demand for cloud protection, said CEO Tomer Weingarten. By using a simple deployment process and eschewing kernels and agents, the company has prompted customers to switch to Singularity Cloud.
With the rapid increase in digital transformation & hybrid work, organizations are noticing that the biggest vulnerability is with legacy MFA solutions that have failed to keep pace with the ever-evolving skills, technology and persistence of today’s cybercriminals.
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Emergency medical device provider Zoll Medical Corp. is notifying more than 1 million individuals, including employees, as well as patients and former patients who used its LifeVest wearable cardioverter defibrillator, of a hacking incident that compromised their personal information.
Organizations of all sizes and industries, from small businesses to large enterprises, are adopting more cloud to realize the benefits of scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness for their business. At the same time, the cloud has led to the largest transformation to security in our lifetimes. Organizations...
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