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This collaboration amplifies Darktrace's self-learning artificial intelligence for cyber security within Microsoft environments, including Microsoft 365 and cloud applications like Azure Sentinel. The partnership between Microsoft and Darktrace provides enhanced security across multi-platform and multi-cloud environments, automates threat investigations, and enables teams to prioritize strategic tasks that matter.
Army researchers developed a deepfake detection method that will allow for the creation of state-of-the-art soldier technology to support mission-essential tasks such as adversarial threat detection and recognition. Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory, in collaboration with Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo's research group at the University of Southern California, set out to tackle the significant threat that deepfake poses to our society and national security.
Combining data collected by the SentinelOne platform and Arete's frontline intelligence gained from thousands of incident response engagements, the new offering enables significantly broader protection for organizations of all types and sizes. Application of Arsinal threat hunting and auto-defense schema directly into SentinelOne client consoles, continuously hardening defenses against the latest malware and threat variants identified and remediated by Arete Experts.
A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online services. Nearly 66% of the recycled numbers that were sampled were found to be tied to previous owners' online accounts at popular websites, potentially enabling account hijacks by simply recovering the accounts tied to those numbers.
XDR solves this problem by providing a single unified platform that will protect, detect and respond to incidences across the whole organization, preconfigured to be ready-to-go from deployment. Unlike many within the XDR market who merged multiple security products into one system, Red Piranha has built Crystal Eye XDR from the ground up, limiting the need for product integrations, as everything has been developed as one unified platform.
Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Prevailion, a next-generation cyber intelligence company that provides clients with expansive visibility into malware across their organization and supply chains with early detection of advanced threats through adversary counterintelligence. The investment will enhance Accenture's ability to provide clients with advanced indications and warnings of cyber threats through actionable evidence of malware that has potentially compromised their systems and third-party ecosystems, which are increasingly prime targets for cybercriminal and espionage actors.
Imagine law enforcement reaches out to a security team to tell them a threat actor is selling employee credentials or private access keys to a sensitive business application. Even though there is no confirmation that these threat actors accessed or stole data, it is very troubling.
According to the index, which surveyed 902 organizations in the financial services sector, 74 percent have experienced a rise in cybercrime since the pandemic began, with 42 percent of banks and insurers revealing the remote working model has made them less secure. 44 percent were also concerned that this has led to less visibility of potential holes in their network or infrastructure and a further 37 percent of FIs believe their customers are now at greater risk of cybercrime or fraud.
The Alaska Court System has temporarily disconnected most of its operations from the internet after a cybersecurity threat on Saturday, including its website and removing the ability to look up court records. The threat blocked electronic court filings, disrupted online payments and prevented hearings from taking place by videoconference for several days, officials said.
QNAP NAS devices under ransomware attackQNAP NAS device owners are once again under attack by ransomware operators, who are exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability to lock data on vulnerable devices by using the 7-Zip open-source file archiver utility. Q1 2021 ransomware trends: Most attacks involved threat to leak stolen dataThe vast majority of ransomware attacks now include the theft of corporate data, Coveware says, but victims of data exfiltration extortion have very little to gain by paying a cyber criminal.