RSS_Virtulization

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Cloud-based user accounts were hit by almost 3.1 million external cyberattacks throughout the year, according to McAfee. Image: iStock/Melpomenem The shift to remote work in 2020 forced organizations and employees to become even more dependent on the cloud. But that shift also caught the attention of cybercriminals who were glad to exploit such a dependency. In a report published Tuesday, McAfee looks at cloud-based attacks and malware that took advantage of the new work environment….

COVID-19 themed cyber-attacks increased by 114% in Q4 2020 compared to Q3, according to data from the McAfee Threats Report: April 2021. This followed rises of 605% and 240% in Q2 and Q3 2020 respectively, demonstrating that threat actors have continued to leverage the pandemic to target organizations and individuals. The study, which looked at the evolving threat landscape in the final quarter of 2020, found there was a 10% overall rise in malware detections in…

Cyber-attacks against global financial institutions are increasingly characterized by attempts to counter incident response, with destructive efforts surging 118% over the past year, according to VMware. The tech giant’s Modern Bank Heists 4.0 report was compiled from interviews with over 120 CISOs and security leaders from some of the world’s biggest banks. It revealed that attackers are becoming increasingly adept at circumventing incident responders — in fact, counter incident response happened 63% of the time…

Security experts have discovered a new set of DNS vulnerabilities which could impact over 100 million IoT devices used by consumers and enterprises. Forescout teamed up with Israeli consultancy JSOF to uncover nine vulnerabilities they have labelled Name:Wreck. They affect popular IT software FreeBSD and IoT/OT firmware IPnet, Nucleus NET and NetX. Forescout claimed that, although not all devices running the software are vulnerable, even if just 1% were, that could impact as many as…