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Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware's SD-WAN and Symantec's Security Service Edge, by today debuting the "VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Symantec Security Service Edge is already classified as a SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge - a term coined by analyst firm Gartner, which defines it as a "Converged network and security as a service capabilities, including software-defined WAN, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, next-generation firewall, and zero trust network access." VMware also offered its own SASE, but that offering was tuned to the needs of its Workspace ONE end user compute suite.
While enterprises are still waiting for Microsoft to issue a fix for the critical "Follina" vulnerability in Windows, yet more malware operators are moving in to exploit it. "Symantec has observed attackers using a similar HTML file to that used in the initial attack. Multiple attackers are using a variety of payloads at the end of successful exploitation."
That's why tons of organizations entrust endpoint protection software to keep their networks secure across each of their platform devices. Endpoint protection is essential as it protects networks from security threats occurring within vulnerable endpoints.
Symantec Endpoint Protection and Webroot Internet Security Plus 2022 are both more than sufficient to meet the needs of most end users and IT and security administrators as the two products are reliable, unassuming and easy to use and administer; however, each has a set of features that may not be universally the same. Let's take a look at the features of and contrasts between Symantec Endpoint Protection and Webroot Internet Security Plus 2022.
Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption and Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Encryption are two of the leading options. Both Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption and Broadcom Symantec Endpoint Encryption protect a wide range of devices typically used by businesses, ranging from Mac and PC laptops and desktops to removable media devices.
Symantec finds evidence of continued Russian hacking campaigns in Ukraine. Security researchers at Symantec have presented what they said is further evidence that the Russian advanced persistent threat hacking team known as Shuckworm has been actively waging a cyber espionage campaign against organizations in Ukraine.
The new ransomware family, called Yanluowang, appears to still be under development and lacks some sophisticated features found in similar code. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team at Broadcom Software has discovered what appears to be a brand new family of ransomware named after the Chinese deity that judges the souls of the dead. Yanluowang is the perfect ransomware for the Halloween season, though this particular malevolent digital spirit lacks the subtlety and sophistication of some of its more established brethren.
New variants of the Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnets have been targeting an old remote code execution vulnerability in legacy Symantec Secure Web Gateway versions, Palo Alto Networks reports. The targeted vulnerability impacts Symantec Secure Web Gateway 5.0.2.8, a product that reached end-of-life in 2015 and end-of-support-life in 2019.
Cyberattackers are targeting a post-authentication remote code-execution vulnerability in Symantec Secure Web Gateways as part of new Mirai and Hoaxcalls botnet attacks. Now, researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 division have observed that same version of the botnet exploiting a second unpatched bug, this time in Symantec Secure Web Gateway version 5.0.2.8, which is a product that became end-of-life in 2015 and end-of-support-life in 2019.