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US regulators on Friday listed Huawei among Chinese telecom gear firms deemed a threat to national security, signaling that a hoped for softening of relations is not in the cards. A roster of communications companies thought to pose "An unacceptable risk" to national security included Huawei Technologies; ZTE; Hytera Communications; Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, and Dahua Technology.
At least 10 threat actors are currently involved in the targeting of Microsoft Exchange servers that are affected by recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities, according to cybersecurity firm ESET. On March 2, Microsoft announced patches for four bugs that were part of a pre-authentication remote code execution attack chain already being exploited in the wild. Now, ESET reveals that at least 10 threat actors are actively engaged in such attacks, including Tick, LuckyMouse, Calypso, Websiic, Winnti Group, Tonto Team, ShadowPad, Mikroceen, and DLTMiner.
Vaccine deployment has encountered bumps in the road as many people are still uncertain over when, where and how to get their shots. Pointing to one example, Check Point said it recently discovered a malicious website impersonating the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and promising vaccine information.
The Biden administration has named China as the most threatening nation the United States faces, on grounds that it can combine its technological and other capabilities like no other. That assessment was offered in a new Interim National Security Guidance [PDF] issued on Wednesday, in which the administration also outlines plans to seek more regulation of advanced technologies and an intention to strike back after cyberattacks.
Through this strategic partnership, Cerium Networks will be able to leverage Blumira's enterprise-level threat detection and response technology to help its small and medium-size customers effectively protect against cybersecurity breaches. Blumira automates threat response by providing built-in playbooks to guide non-experts through incident remediation.
Designed as cloud-native software, BitDam ATP+ is the only solution that protects Office 365 users from unknown threats at first sight. Office 365 ATP, which is considered to have high detections rates, misses more than 25% of the unknown content-borne threats each day.
Armor announced new endpoint detection and response capabilities delivered with VMware Carbon Black. Armor Anywhere, a trusted cloud security platform, will utilize VMware Carbon Black Cloud Enterprise EDR to extend threat detection and response to end user devices.
It seems logical that big data might help to solve it. Where do you start? Easy, simply tune into our upcoming webcast, Applying Big Data analytics to Cybersecurity, on March 31 at 0900 PST. Proceedings will be overseen by our very own Tim Phillips, a technology veteran who has seen off more than a few big threats himself over the years.
Microsoft announced the addition of Threat Analytics for Microsoft 365 Defender customers and the roll-out of Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management Analytics, both in public preview. Microsoft 365 Defender is an enterprise defense suite for cross-domain security that helps security teams to stop attacks and coordinate threat protection for devices, identity, data, and applications.