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Virginia Tech says it was targeted in two recent cyberattacks but feels confident no data was stolen. Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski told the Roanoke Times Friday a few university units used Kaseya, a U.S. software company exploited in early July in a massive ransomware attack that snarled businesses around the world.
Moldova's "Court of Accounts" has suffered a cyberattack leading to the agency's public databases and audits being destroyed. Court of Accounts of Moldova is a government authority that performs audits of public financial resources and government agencies to comply with international standards.
The US is offering a $10m reward to anyone who dobs in digital outlaws responsible for foreign government-backed cyberattacks on critical national infrastructure such as pipelines, power grids, and communication networks. The cash incentive is part of the US State Department's Rewards for Justice programme and the ongoing war on cybercrime that has in recent months crippled fuel pipelines and meat production.
A tailored approach to digital executive protection allows security teams to maximize resources and identify threats without relying on 24x7 physical executive protection. Executive protection teams face threats from many sources including social media, telephone, email, and event in-person physical threats.
Bitdefender unveiled the next evolution of Endpoint Detection and Response solutions - eXtended EDR with the addition of analytics and cross-endpoint security event correlation to Bitdefender Endpoint Detection and Response and GravityZone Ultra, the company's unified endpoint prevention, detection and response and risk analytics platform. With integrated detection and response across operating systems and hybrid environments, Bitdefender delivers a comprehensive, real-time view for security operations, greatly improving the ability for organizations of all sizes, even those without full-time security analysts, to detect covert attacks that would go unnoticed by analysis and detection on individual endpoints in isolation.
Illumio announced new innovations in Illumio Core which automate, accelerate, and simplify the path to a zero trust posture. New advancements in Illumio Core allow organizations to automate security enforcement, gain even more intelligent insights from real-time application data, and operate at cloud-scale.
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Ray Canzanese, director of threat research at Netskope, about cybersecurity and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, being held July 23-Aug. 8, 2021. In other words, the Olympics come around and what's going to happen from a ransomware point of view is really just that the Olympics are a major cultural event that attackers will leverage to try to trick you into doing something, giving them access, installing software, some way that ends up infecting you with ransomware.
Olympic Destroyer was unleashed at Seoul in 2018. It could happen again, cybersecurity expert says.
HackTheBox announces Academy for Business, a new interactive skill development course for corporate IT and security teams. Businesses can train and upskill their staff using practical and theoretical material from the Academy for Business, preparing employees for the challenges of modern cybersecurity threats.
Avanan announced the release of a report which analyzes today's threat landscape, phishing vectors, and industry-based attacks, exposing healthcare and manufacturing as two of the top targets for cyberattacks in the first half of the year. IT saw over 9,000 phishing emails in a one month span, out of an average of 376,914 total emails; healthcare saw over 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 451,792 total emails; and manufacturing saw just under 6,000 phishing emails out of an average of 331,184 total emails.