Data Breaches

IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl has announced a new cybersecurity incident response and forensics (CSIRF) service as well as a new threat intelligence collaboration with AWS. The CSIRF will help customers proactively prepare for and respond to threats by applying the latest threat intelligence and experience from Kyndryl’s security experts, the firm said. Its partnership with AWS will combine operational IT data across cybersecurity, compliance, and resilience to provide actionable insights and security intelligence driven…

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Cybersecurity vendor Guardz has announced the release of a new AI-powered phishing protection solution to help small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and managed service providers (MSPs) prevent phishing attacks. It uses AI to provide small businesses and the MSPs that support them automatic phishing detection and remediation capabilities by combining email security, web browsing protection, perimeter posture, and awareness into one native solution, according to the firm. The release comes in the wake of the…

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Enterprise security company Barracuda has warned its customers against using email security gateway (ESG) appliances impacted by a recently disclosed zero-day exploit and to replace them immediately. A patch for the vulnerability, which has been exploited since October 2022, had been issued by Barracuda last month to stop the exploit from allowing ESG backdooring. “The vulnerability existed in a module which initially screens the attachments of incoming emails,” the company had said previously. “No other Barracuda…

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The threat group behind the Clop ransomware took credit for the recent attacks exploiting a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability in a popular web-based managed file transfer (MFT) tool called MOVEit Transfer. In a message posted on its data leak site, the gang instructs victims to contact them and negotiate a payment until June 14 or see their data leaked publicly. The message, which was modified several times, including to extend the deadline from June 12…

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The latest version of Network Perception’s NP-View platform, which is designed to provide deep insights into industrial and other operational technology (OT) networks, features new capabilities like improved parsing and more flexible lookup options. The Chicago-based vendor announced NP-View 4.2 today, saying that the new features include an improved algorithm for access rules and object groups reports, faster parsing, higher performing tables, and object content lookup. The idea, according to Network Perception CEO Robin Berthier,…

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Looking to harness a decade of AI/ML development Cisco this week previewed generative AI-based features it will soon bring to its Security Cloud service and Webex collaboration offerings. Cisco said it was looking meld the network and security intelligence it has amassed over the years with the large language models (LLMs) of generative AI to simplify enterprise operations and address threats with practical, effective techniques.   The first fruits of this effort will be directed…

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Cloud security firm Sysdig has embedded cloud detection and response (CDR) into its cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). The company claims to be the first vendor to offer this consolidation, a move that enables its CNAPP to detect threats with 360-degree visibility and correlation across workloads, identities, cloud services, and third-party applications. It leverages Falco, a widely adopted open-source standard for cloud threat detection governed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, in both agent and…

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Security automation and orchestration platform Tines has added a new case management capability, dubbed Cases, to allow security teams to collaborate on security incidents. This collaboration feature is aimed at enabling the teams to efficiently handle anomalies, automation, and remediations. “With Cases, Tines users — which range from startups to Fortune 10 — can deploy a new capability that addresses the critical flaws in existing case management solutions, from a lack of customizations and integrations…

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Bitdefender has uncovered a hidden malware campaign living undetected on mobile devices worldwide for more than six months. The campaign is designed to push adware to Android devices with the purpose of driving revenue.  “However, the threat actors involved can easily switch tactics to redirect users to other types of malware, such as banking trojans to steal credentials and financial information or ransomware,” Bitdefender said in a blog. To date, the cybersecurity firm has discovered…

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