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Ransomware operators are using malicious fake ads for Microsoft Teams updates to infect systems with backdoors that deployed Cobalt Strike to compromise the rest of the network. In a non-public security advisory seen by BleepingComputer, Microsoft is warning its customers about these FakeUpdates campaigns, offering recommendations that would lower the impact of the attack via its Defender ATP service.
CyberEdge conducted a web-based survey of 600 enterprise IT security professionals from seven countries and 19 industries in August 2020 in an effort to understand how the pandemic has affected IT security budgets, personnel, cyber risks, and priorities for acquiring new security technologies. A 114% increase in remote workers coupled with a 59% increase in BYOD policy adoption has wreaked havoc among enterprise IT security teams.
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Siren announced the release of Siren 11.0. The latest version of Siren is a major step forward in enabling investigative teams to quickly conduct advanced Signal Intelligence, Cyber Intelligence, and Open Source Intelligence investigations.
Mike Wiacek, founder of Google's Threat Analysis Group and co-founder / former Chief Security Officer of Alphabet moonshot Chronicle, leads the company as its CEO and founder. Stairwell wants to provide security teams with accessible, user-centric tools that help them understand the pivotal relationships between their external and internal data sources.
One Identity released a global survey that reveals attitudes of IT and security teams regarding their responses to COVID-19-driven work environment changes. 99% of IT security professionals said their organizations transitioned to remote work because of COVID-19, and only a third described that transition as "Smooth." 62% of respondents indicated that cloud infrastructure is more important now than 12 months ago.
Researchers are warning of a phishing campaign that pretends to be an automated message from Microsoft Teams. The initial phishing email displays the name "There's new activity in Teams," making it appear like an automated notification from Microsoft Teams.
Splunk announced a series of new product innovations designed to help security teams around the world modernize and unify their security operations in the cloud. Led by new, cloud-centric updates to Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Mission Control and the newly announced Splunk Mission Control Plug-In Framework, Splunk's security operations suite enables Splunk customers to secure their cloud journey and solve their toughest cloud security challenges with data.
These findings indicate that as SOCs continue to mature, they will deploy next-gen tools and capabilities at an unprecedented rate to address gaps in security. Further, the scale of technology needed to secure today's digital assets means SOC teams are relying more heavily on tools to effectively do their jobs.
Booz Allen Hamilton announced the availability of SnapAttack-a cloud-based software solution that brings together actionable threat intelligence and hacker detection. By unifying the security lifecycle into a single solution, SnapAttack enables red and blue teams to work together, emulating attacks from intelligence data, sharing insights of malicious behavior, and developing vendor-agnostic behavioral detection analytics to stop advanced adversaries.