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Threat Stack announced it has hired Peter Basile as VP of Marketing and Kathleen DeShields as VP of HR. These new hires join Threat Stack during a time of rapid growth with increasing customer bookings and average deal sizes enabling the company to exceed its 2020 growth plan despite the global economic impact of COVID-19. Peter Basile joins Threat Stack as the Vice President of Marketing with a focus on accelerating the company's growth trajectory.
They roll out as Microsoft announced that it is tracking active exploitation in the wild. Exploiting the bug allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to a domain controller to completely compromise all Active Directory identity services, according to Microsoft.
Credential theft targeting hardcore gamers has hit an all-time high as scams, illicit markets and account takeovers have become a booming business. More common, Akamai said, is attackers using stolen credentials to log in to a game account and simply steal a user's profile information, financial data and whatever valuable virtual merchandise and currency they can find.
Attitudes toward cybersecurity roles are now overwhelmingly positive, according to a newly released study by², which calls itself the world's largest nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals. The 2020 Cybersecurity Perception Study found that 71% of respondents, all of whom do not work in the industry, said they consider cybersecurity professionals to be smart and technically skilled, while 51% also described them as "The good guys fighting cybercrime."
Game players are affected by phishing campaigns, while gaming companies are getting hit by DDoS attacks, says Akamai. A new report from cybersecurity provider and content delivery network Akamai examines the trend in cyberattacks against gamers and gaming companies.
The Doppelpaymer ransomware gang were behind the cyber-attack on a German hospital that led to one patient's death, according to local sources. The Aachener Zeitung newspaper carried a report from the German Press Association that Doppelpaymer's eponymous ransomware had been introduced to the University Hospital Düsseldorf's network through a vulnerable Citrix product.
The Doppelpaymer ransomware gang were behind the cyber-attack on a German hospital that led to one patient's death, according to local sources. The Aachener Zeitung newspaper carried a report from the German Press Association that Doppelpaymer's eponymous ransomware had been introduced to the University Hospital Düsseldorf's network through a vulnerable Citrix product.
One stressor for IT and security workers around the world has been the abrupt and unexpected transition to a remote workforce. SEE: How to work from home: IT pro's guidebook to telecommuting and remote work.
In one of the attack vectors, attackers can attack the victims using a specifically crafted website. The second attack vector, attackers can attack the victim by just remotely communicating with the CodeMeter server that is located on the machines.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is warning that the LokiBot info-stealing trojan is seeing a surge across the enterprise landscape. LokiBot targets Windows and Android endpoints, and spreads mainly through email.