Security News > 2021 > July
A cyber attack that derailed websites of Iran's transport ministry and its national railway system earlier this month, causing widespread disruptions in train services, was the result of a never-before-seen reusable wiper malware called "Meteor." The campaign - dubbed "MeteorExpress" - has not been linked to any previously identified threat group or to additional attacks, making it the first incident involving the deployment of this malware, according to researchers from Iranian antivirus firm Amn Pardaz and SentinelOne.
D-Link Corporation announced their latest EAGLE PRO AI product series at the D-Link Product Launch Conference. By developing products with AI Technology that can recognize network problems and adapt accordingly, D-Link optimizes the performance of home networks.
Digital Voice Lines with Cellular Failover from Windstream Enterprise is designed to replace traditional Plain Old Telephone Services as a more cost-effective and dependable alternative for customers. DVL with Cellular Failover from Windstream Enterprise supports critical services such as fire alarms, security alarms, POS terminals, automatic meter reading for gas, water and electric meters, temperature and water sensors, and more.
Extreme Networks announced a new Wi-Fi 6E access point: the Extreme AP4000 universal wireless platform, capable of operating in the 6 GHz frequency spectrum. Extreme's lead customers, including large healthcare providers, are rolling out Wi-Fi 6E technology in environments that demand high performance and reliable wireless connectivity to support a dense device population.
UfiSpace launched its S9600 series open aggregation routers based on Broadcom's Qumran2c silicon. "With our previous open disaggregated solutions for the cell site, core and edge networks, service providers were able to foster innovation, reduce vendor lock-in and obtain better TCO synergies within their network," says UfiSpace CEO, Vincent Ho. "We are excited to provide our customers with even more benefits by enabling open disaggregation for their aggregation network as well."
CIS Secure received approval from the National Telecommunications Security Working Group for its new Poly 8300 TSG conference phone. The Poly 8300 conference phone is designed to transform any small conference room hub into a TSG-protected secure collaboration space.
Deloitte has formed a strategic alliance with Palo Alto Networks to deliver integrated, end-to-end zero trust and multi-cloud cybersecurity solutions to their mutual enterprise and government customers. The alliance brings together Deloitte's award-winning cyber risk consulting services and Palo Alto Networks' platform security capabilities to deliver broad solutions designed to help customers simplify complex security infrastructure while increasing speed and agility, enabling them to protect their most important digital initiatives and realize the full value of their cybersecurity investments.
Terranova Security announced a partnership with Security Innovation, an authority in software security training for IT professionals. The partnership addresses a key business need for many organizations today: creating a unified culture of cyber security through role-based security awareness training.
An infamous cross-platform crypto-mining malware has continued to refine and improve upon its techniques to strike both Windows and Linux operating systems by setting its sights on older vulnerabilities, while simultaneously latching on to a variety of spreading mechanisms to maximize the effectiveness of its campaigns. "LemonDuck, an actively updated and robust malware that's primarily known for its botnet and cryptocurrency mining objectives, followed the same trajectory when it adopted more sophisticated behavior and escalated its operations," Microsoft said in a technical write-up published last week.
Treeverse announced $23 million in funding to date, which will further accelerate the development and adoption of the innovative solution designed for any enterprise data team tasked with managing petabytes or more of data in one shared system. "We're most proud of how lakeFS elegantly solves the file system challenge for data lakes of exponential size and how the growing community around it is involved in finding new ways to leverage lakeFS to improve their data workflows. We plan to use this round of funding to perfect the open-source core capabilities and build a SaaS offering over it that allows fast creation of predefined workflows that are essential for managing an ever-growing amount of data within every enterprise."