Security News

Cobalt Iron’s Cyber Shield locks down data access control, greatly reducing financial risk
2019-09-12 02:30

Cobalt Iron announced Cyber Shield, an extension of its Adaptive Data Protection SaaS solution that locks down and shields its customers’ backup data from loss, corruption, or attack. Cyber Shield...

Cobalt Iron Adaptive Data Protection simplifies enterprise data protection technologies
2019-07-29 04:00

Cobalt Iron, a leading provider of cloud-based data protection, is simplifying the task of managing multiple storage and data protection technologies with the company’s Adaptive Data Protection...

Cobalt Iron partners with Melius Group to bring SaaS enterprise backup solution to UK and Ireland
2019-04-28 23:00

Cobalt Iron and Melius Group announced a reseller/cloud service provider agreement. Under the terms of the contract, Melius Group will represent Cobalt Iron’s Adaptive Data Protection (ADP) SaaS...

Cobalt Strike Bug Exposes Attacker Servers
2019-03-01 14:05

A recently addressed vulnerability in the Cobalt Strike penetration testing platform could be exploited to identify attacker servers, Fox-IT security researchers reveal. read more

PoS Clients Targeted with Cobalt Strike, Card Scraping Malware
2019-03-01 13:42

Recent attacks against point-of-sale (PoS) thin clients around the world have been using card data scraping malware and the Cobalt Strike beacon, security firm Morphisec reveals.  read more

Bug in Cobalt Strike pentesting tool used to identify malicious servers
2019-03-01 09:21

An extraneous space in the HTTP responses of webservers run by a variety of malicious actors allowed Fox-IT researchers to identify them pretty easily for the past year and a half. This was...

"Cobalt" Hackers Use Google App Engine in Recent Attacks
2019-01-25 17:36

Infamous "Cobalt" hacking group has been using Google App Engine for the delivery of malware through PDF decoy documents, Netskope’s security researchers say.  read more

Cobalt Group Pushes Revamped ThreadKit Malware
2018-12-11 18:40

Threat actors have updated their malware to include a macro-based delivery framework.

Multi-Stage Malware Heavily Used in Recent Cobalt Attacks
2018-09-12 23:42

The Russia-based Cobalt hacking group has made heavy use of the CobInt malware in recently observed campaigns, Proofpoint’s security researchers warn.  read more

Cobalt cybercrooks phry up phishing campaign to phling at phinance orgs
2018-08-31 09:42

Emails hiding dodgy scripts designed to plant backdoors A notorious hacking group suspected in attacks across dozens of countries has launched a campaign against banks in eastern Europe and Russia.…