Security News > 2020 > April

Sixgill, a leading cyber threat intelligence company, announced that as part of its partnership with Anomali, its new Darkfeed automated threat intelligence is available in the Anomali Preferred Partner Store. With access to this new intelligence stream, joint customers can integrate a real-time, automated feed of deep and dark web indicators into their existing security infrastructure and operations via Anomali ThreatStream.

Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, announced one of its largest expansions of Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric in seven new EMEA markets to help global businesses simplify hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. In response to this market shift, Equinix is extending its ECX Fabric service in EMEA to help digital businesses simplify hybrid multicloud deployments and expand their global interconnection opportunities on Platform Equinix®.

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the opening of the AWS Europe Region. "AWS customers in Italy are among the most creative and innovative organizations that we support anywhere in the world, and we are always inspired by the work they do with our technology," said Peter DeSantis, Senior Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Customer Support, Amazon Web Services.

The combination further establishes Syndigo as a leading provider of end-to-end product content creation, management and syndication capabilities, and enhances its digital asset management and customization capabilities. "The addition of Kwikee to Syndigo's end-to-end integrated solution ensures that our clients will continue to have the most complete and flexible range of tools to manage the entire product experience - from Digital Asset Management, to Product Information Management, to Syndication and Analytics - globally," said Syndigo CEO Paul Salay.

Kount, the leader in identity trust and fraud prevention, announced Vikram Dhawan has been appointed as the Vice President of Product. With 15 years of experience in the fraud and risk management industry, Dhawan has been tapped to advance Kount's recent innovations in account takeover protection and the Identity Trust Global Network.

The man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox and the Formspring Q&A forum, and later selling the stolen data of hundreds of millions of users, has seen his trial disrupted a third time by the coronavirus pandemic. At a hearing on Tuesday, Judge William Alsup again delayed the US trial of alleged Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin until June 1; the third such delay since the COVID-19 virus appeared in San Francisco, where proceedings are unfolding.

The work-from-home paradigm that has become the new normal in the age of coronavirus comes with exacerbated network security risk - as evidenced by growing a number of botnets and automated attacks that are taking advantage of known vulnerabilities in both consumer and corporate IT gear. According to Nate Warfield, senior security program manager at Microsoft, new vulnerabilities found in network and Internet-of-Things equipment are being weaponized by cybercriminals within days of disclosure - and sometimes hours.

You may have heard that today's phone fraudsters like to use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. You probably didn't know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account - data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

Boston-based security analytics and automation solutions provider Rapid7 said on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire DivvyCloud, a provider of security and compliance automation solutions for public cloud and container infrastructure. Rapid7 will pay roughly $145 million in cash and stock to acquire the company.

Cybercriminals behind the Android-based dropper malware Black Rose Lucy have shifted attacks from info-stealing to ransomware - with a sextortion twist. With its most recent ransomware campaign, researchers said they have discovered more than 80 malware samples tied to Lucy, along with identifying one new active Lucy variant in the wild.