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SoftServe has achieved AWS Healthcare Competency status. SoftServe joins a select group of AWS Partner Network members to have achieved the AWS Healthcare Competency status.
With this acquisition, Zadara obtains NeoKarm technology including the former Stratoscale software IP, which enables MSPs to offer an on-demand private cloud built and fully-managed by Zadara. "We believe MSPs of any size should be able to offer their own competitive on-demand private cloud without the large upfront CapEx investment traditionally required," said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara.
SolarWinds introduced Kevin Kline as the newest member of the company's Head Geek team, deepening its bench of database and Microsoft data platform expertise. "The SolarWinds Head Geeks have a deep connection with the IT community, providing sound advice and perspectives from real-world experience they've gained as IT professionals throughout their careers," said Darren Beck, CMO, SolarWinds.
Further strengthening its ability to support customers and partners in their digital transformation and migration to cloud, Avaya announced it has appointed Darcey Harrison as Vice President of Cloud Acceleration, North America. Harrison is responsible for continuing expansion of new and existing customer adoption of the Avaya OneCloud communications and collaboration portfolio.
Today, Microsoft announced that they have started to roll out a preview of the Windows 10 21H1 feature update to Windows Insiders in the Beta channel. Microsoft also confirmed that the Windows 10 21H1 feature update would be delivered as an enablement package, allow Windows 10 2004 and 20H2 users to install the feature update very quickly.
Three suspected North Korean military intelligence hackers have been charged with, among other things, conspiring to loot more than $1.3bn from banks, ATMs, and cryptocurrency companies, according to an indictment unsealed by the US Department of Justice on Wednesday. Court documents, filed in the District Court in Los Angeles in December last year and now made public [PDF], claim Park Jin Hyok, 36, Jon Chang Hyok, 31, and Kim Il, 27, were hackers employed by the Reconnaissance General Bureau, a North Korean intelligence agency.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new kind of Office malware distributed as part of a malicious email campaign that targeted more than 80 customers worldwide in an attempt to control victim machines and steal information remotely. About 40 hackers in total are said to be behind the operation, utilizing 100 different email senders in a slew of attacks targeting users in more than 30 different countries.
The Clop ransomware group has reportedly started posting data on the Dark Web apparently stolen from law firm Jones Day, which represents many of the globe's most powerful people, including former president Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The site DataBreached.net was first to report on the incident and published screenshots of stolen Jones Day files that the Clop group posted on the Dark Web as proof it has the goods.
Cryptocurrency-mining malware, called WatchDog, has been running under the radar for more than two years - in what researchers call one of the largest and longest-lasting Monero cryptojacking attacks to date. Thus far, attackers have hijacked at least 476 Windows and Linux devices, in order to abuse their system resources for mining Monero cryptocurrency.
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and the theft of roughly $200 million and attempted theft of more than $1.2 billion from banks and other victims worldwide. Investigators with the DOJ, U.S. Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Wednesday the trio's activities involved extortion, phishing, direct attacks on financial institutions and ATM networks, as well as malicious applications that masqueraded as software tools to help people manage their cryptocurrency holdings.