A new report from Cisco Talos, the IT vendor’s security research team, details how hackers are increasingly using public cloud services like Azure and AWS that eliminates the need to host their own infrastructure. Specifically, researchers narrowed in on a fall 2021 campaign that utilized variants of known remote access trojans that were deployed and […]
Russia says it has shut down the REvil ransomware gang, arrested several individuals and seized a total of about $7 million from the well-organized cybercrime operation that has plagued businesses in the U.S. and abroad for years. In a press release, the FSB, Russia’s principal security agency, says it carried out the operation at the […]
After the Log4j vulnerabilities threw a wrench into the holiday plans of IT and cybersecurity folks last month, the federal government has taken swift action to address the issue, including instructing federal agencies to quickly patch and mitigate the vulnerability and making other resources available to the larger IT community. Now, the issue has been […]
As videoconferencing becomes the norm, Google Meet is now offering live translated captions generally available for select Google Workspace users on web and mobile devices. Meeting participants can translate an English meeting to one of four languages: French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. The company rolled out the beta in September of last year, which is […]
Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has released a free incident response tracker to help IT and security teams document indicators of compromise, compromised systems and a timeline of important events during its forensic analysis of an attack. The company calls the tool the CrowdStrike Incident Response Tracker, which is essentially an organized spreadsheet to help teams document […]
Malware continues to grow along with other malicious payload delivered by cloud applications, according to Netskope’s latest Cloud and Threat Spotlight for January 2022. The SASE provider analyzed year-over-year data highlighting that attacker are achieving more success delivering malware payloads to their victims. The research showed more than two-thirds of malware data came from cloud […]
According to new data from web infrastructure and security firm Cloudflare, the amount of DDoS attacks being layered with a ransom demand are increasing significantly. The company’s DDoS Attack Trends report for the fourth quarter of 2021 revealed a ransom DDoS attack increase of 29% for the year and a whopping 175% for the quarter. […]
AVer has added three videoconferencing cameras to its portfolio of Microsoft Teams-certified devices that strengthens the collaboration tech provider’s relationship with Microsoft. The AVer cameras now certified with Microsoft Teams include the VB130 enterprise-grade USB video bar, the CAM520 Pro2 enterprise-grade conference camera and the CAM130 4K conference camera. All are now optimized to work […]
Johnson Controls, headquartered in Cork, Ireland, recently completed the acquisition of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based FogHorn. Johnson Controls is, of course, a prominent company in the category of smart, healthy and sustainable buildings. Meanwhile, FogHorn is a well-known developer of Edge AI software for industrial and commercial Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. “Value is increasingly being created […]
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