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The IoT M2M Council announced that Microsoft has joined the Council, a trade group that fosters a community of 25,000 qualified IoT users. The Microsoft Azure IoT Engineering group will use the IMC as a platform to stay in closer contact with enterprise users and product makers that are deploying IoT technology.
Sierra Wireless, a world-leading IoT solutions provider, today disclosed a ransomware attack that forced it to halt production at all manufacturing sites. The ransomware attack hit Sierra Wireless' internal network over the weekend, on March 20.
WeBee's No-Code End-to-End Solution Builder running on Microsoft Azure, operating on the LoRaWAN protocol and leveraging Semtech LoRa devices simplifies the development of enterprise IoT use cases including industrial remote monitoring, smart farming, and smart cities. The Webee platform provides unique tools to accelerate and facilitate IoT including no-code Cloud services, visual drag and drop integration, and a natural language ask feature.
Cylera announced the company secured $10 million in Series A funding, led by Concord Health Partners and Maverick Ventures. With the Series A close, Cylera brings the company's total funding to $17 million with investment from Concord Health Partners, Maverick Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, Two Sigma Ventures, Dreamit Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital, Red Bear Angels and Samsung NEXT. "Over the past year there has been a further acceleration of the digitalization and adoption of IoT devices across hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, biotech, life sciences and manufacturing, which can decrease operational risk and increase efficiencies," said Timur Ozekcin, Co-founder and CEO of Cylera.
Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence provider Cylera today announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. To date, the company has secured $17 million in funding.
Over the past month, a variant of the Mirai botnet was observed targeting new security vulnerabilities within hours after they had been disclosed publicly, researchers with Palo Alto Networks reveal. What makes the variant tracked by Palo Alto Networks stand out in the crowd is the fact that, within a four-week timeframe, it started exploiting several vulnerabilities that have been disclosed this year.
A new Mirai variant is targeting known flaws in D-Link, Netgear and SonicWall devices, as well as newly-discovered flaws in unknown IoT devices. A new variant of the Mirai botnet has been discovered targeting a slew of vulnerabilities in unpatched D-Link, Netgear and SonicWall devices - as well as never-before-seen flaws in unknown internet-of-things gadgets.
Researchers have discovered what they say is the first variant of the Gafgyt botnet family to cloak its activity using the Tor network. In order to evade detection, Gafgyt tor uses Tor to hide its command-and-control communications, and encrypts sensitive strings in the samples.
Awake Security, the network detection and response security division of Arista Networks unveiled platform enhancements that strengthen its ability to detect advanced threats, protect the unmanaged attack surface and autonomously perform threat hunting and forensic investigations. Awake's NDR platform is a key pillar of Arista's vision for zero trust security.
Microsoft this week announced Secured-core Server and Edge Secured-core, two solutions aimed at improving the security of servers and connected devices. Initially announced in 2019, Secured-core is the result of a partnership between Microsoft and hardware manufacturers, and its goal is to add a security layer that combines identity, virtualization, operating system, hardware and firmware protection capabilities.