RSS_Virtulization

As organizations continue to expand and evolve their digital footprint, security staff struggle to adapt operations quickly enough to ensure effective monitoring and response to incidents in their environment. These challenges are even more difficult due to limited staff and expertise. Enter extended detection and response or XDR. Depending on who you ask, you’ll get differing opinions about what XDR is, where it came from, and whether or not you need it. The fact is…

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly reviewing the news for interesting stories and developments in the cybersecurity world. Here’s what stood out to us during the week of September 27, 2021. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT. REvil Ransomware Group Goes Offline Back in July 2021, CyberNews reported that the REvil ransomware group’s website and infrastructure had gone offline. It was…

A former US army contractor has been sentenced to more than 12 years behind bars after pleading guilty to helping defraud thousands of military service members, veterans and their families. Fredrick Brown, 40, of Las Vegas, was sentenced for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, following a guilty plea nearly two years ago. As a civilian medical records technician and administrator at the US army’s 65th…

US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is facing a backlash from its users after notifying them that at least 6,000 customers had their funds stolen by hackers. The “third-party campaign” took place between March and May 20, 2021. “In order to access your Coinbase account, these third parties first needed prior knowledge of the email address, password, and phone number associated with your Coinbase account, as well as access to your personal email inbox,” the firm explained in a breach…

The government has released more details about a planned National Cyber Force (NCF), confirming that it will be located in the northwest village of Samlesbury. First mooted in 2018, the new facility will form the hub of the UK’s offensive cyber capabilities, drawing personnel from GCHQ, the Ministry of Defence, MI6 and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). “The National Cyber Force will help confront aggressive behavior from malign actors, and demonstrate that Britain is…

Written by John Checco Oct 4, 2021 | FEDSCOOP John Checco is an information security professional providing security expertise across various industries. He currently resides as leader for the CISO Advisory Board on Financial Services for Proofpoint and President Emeritus of the New York Metro InfraGard Members Alliance (an FBI public/private partnership program). Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, financial institutions have launched a wave of cloud-based initiatives to support employees with remote access….

Ransomware – malware that aims to prevent victims from accessing their data unless they pay their attackers – seems to be in the news more than ever before. Sophos’s most recent annual ransomware survey, The State of Ransomware 2021, found that 37% of organisations surveyed in 2021 had been affected by ransomware in the previous year. Although this is a year-on-year reduction (51% of surveyed organisations were affected in 2020), the threat remains significant. The…

The increasing prevalence of ransomware tops the findings of the McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research Report: October 2021 released today. While ransomware continues to hold cybersecurity headlines hostage, so much has changed since our last threat report. After shutting down the Colonial Pipeline, DarkSide created the appearance of walking away after attracting government scrutiny, thinking we would miss the (alleged) connection to BlackMatter. Our Advanced Threat Research team also made a move to McAfee Enterprise,…