Security News > 2021
"The COVID-19 pandemic compounded this with new challenges in securing remote workforces, making it essential that we quickly become more adaptable and learn how to better protect workers in any environment. While our total detections are down this year, we must remain vigilant. The threats we are seeing are more refined and damaging than ever before." Despite an overall drop in detections for Macs and Windows in 2020, it's clear the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the cybercrime world so much that many anticipated campaigns either never arrived, arrived with less impact, or were replaced entirely with attacks more suited against users during a pandemic.
Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30,000 Macs running Intel x86 64 and the iPhone maker's M1 processors. Calling the malware "Silver Sparrow," cybersecurity firm Red Canary said it identified two different versions of the malware - one compiled only for Intel x86 64 and uploaded to VirusTotal on August 31, 2020, and a second variant submitted to the database on January 22 that's compatible with both Intel x86 64 and M1 ARM64 architectures.
Cyberinc announced the release of the Isla Isolation Platform 6, featuring significant enhancements that improve the user experience and strengthen security against the most prominent web, email, and document-based threats. With the introduction of Isla Smart Isolation, an industry-first capability, Cyberinc advances browser isolation technology to simplify deployments and improve the user experience through context-aware isolation.
VanDyke Software announced the official release of VShell 4.6 server. VShell triggers facilitate automation of data and business processing.
Redis Lab announced the release of RediSearch 2.0, which enables customers to build modern applications with interactive search experiences. RediSearch represents one of the fastest-growing capabilities Redis Labs customers are adopting because of its powerful indexing, querying, full-text search, and other supported use cases across various deployments-on-premises, cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud.
VanDyke Software announced the official releases of SecureCRT 9.0 and SecureFX 9.0. Built-in RDP support in secureCRT 9.0 for Windows.
CloudKnox Security continues to expand its industry-leading position today, improving the Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management space with a key Amazon Web Services technical partnership. The CloudKnox-AWS Config integration leverages CloudKnox's patented technology to help AWS users automatically enforce least privilege and Zero Trust access.
Verizon announced the expansion of its long-standing strategic partnership with Cisco, with the addition of three new SD-WAN managed services offerings. "These new services reflect the significant ongoing joint Cisco and Verizon research and development investments which aim to help customers accelerate change."
The acceleration of the use of IoT devices, gaming and streaming services; faster adoption of software, cloud and XaaS technologies to help organizations manage remote work and school; and 5G had become a reality, enabling more and higher-capacity connections from millions of devices all requiring protection of this expanded attack surface from highly complex cyberattacks. As a global phenomenon, A10 has seen the largest communications service providers expand their services, taking advantage of new opportunities with government and enterprises, along with regional providers addressing the critical need for high-speed broadband to rural communities.
Achronix Semiconductor and Logic Fruit announced a partnership to provide optimized T and M IP solutions for the Speedster7t FPGA devices. Speedster7t FPGAs include 112G SerDes, which are the highest performance I/O interfaces for FPGAs available today and are an ideal platform for T and M system development.