Security News

VMware users anxious about costs and ransomware threats
2023-09-29 04:30

VMware customers have growing concerns about the state of the virtualization software and the company behind it - ranging from rising licensing costs, ransomware vulnerabilities and a diminishing quality of support, according to VergeIO. 84% of respondents indicated that they were concerned about VMware's current and future costs, with many highlighting "Per-core" renewal quotes and licensing agreements that require a commitment to year-over-year spending increases as additional points of distress. With a rise in ransomware attacks exploiting specific VMware vulnerabilities, 77% of customers worried about their data resiliency.

China's national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats
2023-09-28 03:58

Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin has penned an article rating the digital risks his country faces and rated network security incidents as the most realistic source of harm to the Chinternet - both in terms of attacks and the dissemination of fake news. The article appeared in China Cyberspace, the official organ of regulator the Cyberspace Administration of China.

Is your identity safe? Exploring the gaps in threat protection
2023-09-27 04:00

A recent study from Silverfort has identified the identity attack surface as today's most substantial weakness in cybersecurity resilience. Traditional approaches, such as MFA and PAM, have notable limitations that can lead to the exploitation of stolen credentials.

Threat Report: High Tech Industry targeted the most with 46% of attack traffic tagged by NLX
2023-09-26 10:32

How To Use This Report Enhance situational awareness of techniques used by threat actors Identify potential attacks targeting your industry Gain insights to help improve and accelerate your...

Are developers giving enough thought to prompt injection threats when building code?
2023-09-26 05:30

This overlooked vulnerability is no trivial matter, and it raises the critical question: Are we doing enough to insulate our code and applications from the risks of prompt injection? Prompt injection is an insidious technique where attackers introduce malicious commands into the free text input that controls an LLM. By doing so, they can force the model into performing unintended and malicious actions.

IT workers see generative AI as a serious threat to their profession
2023-09-26 03:00

While many IT workers see the productivity benefits of AI, 56% believe it benefits employers more than employees, according to Ivanti. 63% are concerned generative AI tools might take their job in the next five years compared to 44% of office workers.

Hands-on threat simulations: empower cybersecurity teams to confidently combat threats
2023-09-25 05:00

Security teams need easily replicable techniques to emulate threat scenarios to test their defense skills against the skill level of cyber-attackers. At least yearly, there should be a full red team assessment; the red team is made up of offensive security professionals whose role is to exploit the company's vulnerabilities and overcome cybersecurity controls.

Mysterious 'Sandman' Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents
2023-09-21 19:55

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunic koation providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian...

Financially Motivated UNC3944 Threat Actor Shifts Focus to Ransomware Attacks
2023-09-18 03:16

The financially motivated threat actor known as UNC3944 is pivoting to ransomware deployment as part of an expansion to its monetization strategies, Mandiant has revealed. "UNC3944 has demonstrated a stronger focus on stealing large amounts of sensitive data for extortion purposes and they appear to understand Western business practices, possibly due to the geographical composition of the group," the threat intelligence firm said.

The Interdependence between Automated Threat Intelligence Collection and Humans
2023-09-15 11:13

Proactive threat intelligence was not automated threat intelligence, however. Automated threat intelligence helped teams operate more efficiently, but it presented a novel challenge: How to manage and make sense of all the data that automated threat intelligence processes produced.