RSS_Virtulization

With all the headlines about ransomware attacks hitting companies hard, you might think there’s only bad news around the subject. Well, think again. Not only has the Darkside ransomware gang seemingly shut down since the high-profile attack which resulted in the Colonial Pipeline being shut down, and numerous dark web forums announce that they will no longer promote ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS) schemes, but it also appears that another notorious ransomware outfit has decided to close its…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has spent over a quarter of a million pounds (£262,251) on cybersecurity training for its staff during the past two financial years, according to official figures obtained by the Parliament Street think tank following a Freedom of Information request. The UK’s tax authority spent £111,795 in the most recent financial year (20–21), which was a reduction on the £150,456 invested in 19–20. This funding covered 80 training enrollments in FY…

Just as business users have turned to cloud computing services and online collaboration software to do their jobs, so too have cybercriminals according to new research from Proofpoint. In recent months, the cybersecurity firm has observed a massive uptick in threat actors abusing Microsoft and Google’s infrastructure to host and send threats across Office 365, Azure, OneDrive, SharePoint, G-Suite and Firebase storage. In 2020, over 59m malicious messages were sent from Microsoft Office 365 targeting…

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Web application vulnerabilities enabled attackers to breach organizations on average twice each last year, with bot-based raids the biggest challenge, according to Barracuda Networks. The security vendor polled 750 application security decision makers to compile its latest report: The state of application security in 2021. It revealed that nearly three-quarters (72%) of firms suffered at least one breach from a web app flaw, a third (32%) were hit twice and 14% were compromised three times….

On May 8th, I was at a gas station filling up my car before a trip I was taking when the news about a cyberattack against a large pipeline company broke. The attack led them to halt all operations. Ultimately, the incident stemmed from a ransomware infection in which a well-known threat actor took volumes of corporate data in just two hours and made their demands including the threat to block and encrypt the company’s…

Four years ago, when CloudHealth Secure State founders were researching the cloud market, it was hard to ignore the growing list of companies that ended up in the news headlines due to simple misconfiguration mistakes leading to massive data breaches. A closer look revealed that the security teams in many of these companies had tools, but were struggling with cloud visibility. They were getting the security alerts but didn’t know where to focus their resources…