Security analysts at Skybox Security uncovered a 42% increase in new ransomware programs targeting known vulnerabilities last year, including critical vulnerabilities discovered in Log4j and Exchange Server. The San Jose, Calif. cybersecurity company’s 2022 Vulnerability and Trends Report, released this week, details how quickly hackers capitalize on new security bugs and continue to reduce the […]
Gaps in readiness are impacting the ability of many organizations to manage and recover from ransomware attacks, according to research by Zerto, a Boston-based cloud data management and protection platform. This gap poses a risk to mitigation strategies presented by widespread skills shortages and over-reliance on internal resources. One of the best protections against a […]
IT admins have a lot of patching to do this month as Microsoft has released patches to address nearly 130 security vulnerabilities, including 10 critical bugs and three with a CVSS of 9.8. According to Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the vulnerability disclosure initiative of cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, this volume of patches has not been […]
As the healthcare industry accelerates into an increasingly digitized world, cyber breaches exposing confidential patient data are becoming more commonplace. In fact, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights’ breach portal, a staggering 44,993,618 healthcare records were exposed or stolen in 2021. The implications of these security breaches are […]
Microsoft’s new unified Defender for Endpoint solution for Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 is now generally available. According to Microsoft, this adds new prevention, detection and response capabilities to Defender for Endpoint on those versions that were previously only available on Windows Server 2019 and later. The new unified Defender reduces complexity […]
Norwalk, Conn-based IT management and security software provider Kaseya is acquiring Datto, a Miami, Fla.-based security and disaster recovery software provider for managed service providers, for $6.2 billion. According to a press release, the all-cash transaction will be funded by an equity group led by Insight Partners and including TPG, Temasek and Sixth Street. Datto […]
Security researchers with cybersecurity firms say hackers are actively exploiting the Spring4Shell vulnerability to deploy the Mirai botnet malware. In a research report detailing the exploits, Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm Trend Micro says it has observed the exploitation since the start of this month after the remote code execution bug (CVE-2022-22965) in the Spring Framework was […]
Mandiant and CrowdStrike, two of the largest cybersecurity providers, are teaming up to help joint customers investigate, remediate and defend against advanced cybersecurity threats, with Mandiant using the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and subscription offerings for its incident response services. The partnership between the two cybersecurity giants will enable organizations of all sizes to leverage both […]
If the fourth quarter for 2021 is any indication, 2022 will be another year that cybersecurity and IT professionals would want to forget, as advanced network attacks increase by 33% in the fourth quarter, indicating a higher level of zero day threats than ever before, reports WatchGuard Technologies. In a new analysis of the fourth […]
The FBI and a contingent of U.S. agencies and cybersecurity professionals have removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices to remove the Russian-implanted botnet Sandworm and disable the command and control infrastructure on thousands of underlying victim devices. Via a court order, the FBI “copied and removed malware from vulnerable internet-connected firewall devices that Sandworm […]
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