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UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published an analysis of a Linux malware named "Pigmy Goat" created to backdoor Sophos XG firewall devices as part of recently disclosed attacks by...
Really interesting story of Sophos’s five-year war against Chinese hackers.
Sophos disclosed today a series of reports dubbed "Pacific Rim" that detail how the cybersecurity company has been sparring with Chinese threat actors for over 5 years as they increasingly...
Sophos conducted defensive and counter-offensive operation over the last five years with multiple interlinked nation-state adversaries based in China targeting perimeter devices, including Sophos...
Private equity giant Thoma Bravo adds another trophy to its growing collection British security biz Sophos has announced a plan to gobble up competitor Secureworks in an $859 million deal that...
As leaders within the endpoint detection and response industry, CrowdStrike and Sophos provide high-quality EDR for organizations of all sizes. CrowdStrike Falcon XDR and Sophos Intercept X both build upon their EDR solutions with enhanced detection and response, known as XDR. In this comparison, we explain which EDR solution is best for you and your organization.
The Sophos research revealed the extent of the popularity and effectiveness of ransomware groups targeting corporate backups. Only 26% of companies with compromised backups were fully recovered within a week, compared to 46% of those without compromised backups.
Organisations surveyed in the report acknowledge that burnout and fatigue have contributed to lower team productivity, the success of some cyber attacks and employees choosing to seek new roles or leave the industry entirely. Burnout among cyber pros a known problem for years in APAC. Burnout in cybersecurity is a well-known problem.
Citrix and Sophos products have been impacted by leap year flaws, leading to unexpected problems in their products. Leap years solve the synchronization problem caused by the Gregorian calendar measuring a year in 365 days, while the astronomical year is 365.24 days.
EOL Sophos firewalls get hotfix for old but still exploited vulnerabilityOver a year has passed since Sophos delivered patches for a vulnerability affecting Sophos Firewalls that was being actively exploited by attackers, and now they have pushed additional ones to protect vulnerable EOL devices. Attackers are trying to exploit Apache Struts vulnerabilityAttackers are trying to leverage public proof-of-exploit exploit code for CVE-2023-50164, the recently patched path traversal vulnerability in Apache Struts 2.