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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.

A set of high-severity privilege-escalation vulnerabilities affecting Business Process Automation application and Cisco's Web Security Appliance and could allow authenticated, remote attackers to access sensitive data or take over a targeted system. The first two bugs exist in the web-based management interface of the Cisco Business Process Automation, which is used to streamline various IT processes.

ADVA launched an optical transport solution secured by post-quantum cryptography. The FSP 3000 ConnectGuard optical encryption solution now protects data against cyberattacks from quantum computers that could break today's cryptographic algorithms.

Armis released new data uncovering the lack of knowledge and general awareness of major cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and an understanding of security hygiene. The survey of over 2,000 respondents from across the United States found that end users are not paying attention to the major attacks plaguing operational technology and critical infrastructure across the country, signaling the importance of businesses prioritizing a focus on security as employees return to the office.

Most of one of Sweden's leading supermarket chains' 800 shops remained closed on Monday, three days after they were indirectly affected by the cyberattack targeting US company Kaseya. On Friday, a hacking attack indirectly hit the supermarket chain, paralysing all its cash registers and forcing the company to temporarily close nearly all its shops across the country.