CyberSecurity Updates

08 Jun

Google Cloud launches Cryptomining Protection Program

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

Google Cloud has launched its Cryptomining Protection Program for Security Command Center (SCC) Premium customers with up to $1 million to cover unauthorized Google Cloud compute expenses associated with undetected cryptomining attacks. SCC Premium customers will have access to the new product for free. SCC Premium works with a pay-as-you-go pricing, and as one-year and multi-year fixed-price subscriptions.  According to Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) September 2022 Threat Horizons Report, threat actors frequently targeted weak and default…

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08 Jun

Consolidate Vendors and Products for Better Security

Information, News

Organizations everywhere are evolving in new ways, whether it’s embracing remote work or developing new digital business initiatives. Although these changes can be crucial to business growth and employee retention, they often expand the attack surface, which leads to greater day-to-day operational complexity for Security Operations Center (SOC) teams. At the same time the attack surface is increasing, threats are also on the upswing. Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and organizations of all sizes across…

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08 Jun

BastionZero releases SplitCert for password-free authentication and access

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

BastionZero has announced the release of SplitCert to provide password-free authentication access to databases. It uses Mutual TLS (mTLS) and cryptographic multi-party computation (MPC) to provide certificate-based authentication for popular, self-hosted Postgres and MongoDB databases, according to the vendor. Other new BastionZero platform features include passwordless access support for GCP cloud SQL and AWS RDS via a new desktop app, along with password-free support for Microsoft Windows servers with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), BastionZero said.…

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08 Jun

Guardz releases AI-powered phishing protection solution for SMEs, MSPs

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

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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08 Jun

Kyndryl unveils incident response and forensics service, AWS threat intelligence collaboration

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

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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08 Jun

Barracuda urges customers to replace vulnerable appliances immediately

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

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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08 Jun

VMware Releases Security Update for Aria Operations for Networks

Attacks, Insights, Malware

VMware has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks (Formerly vRealize Network Insight). The vulnerabilities were evaluated to fall within the critical severity range, as a malicious actor with network access may be able to perform a command injection attack resulting in remote code execution. Patches have been made available to remediate the vulnerabilities found in VMWare products.    CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2023-0012 and…

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08 Jun

IOTW: Clop ransomware gang threatens BBC, Boots and BA

Attacks, Data Breaches

Ransomware gang Clop, who was responsible for a cyber attack on data transfer service MOVEit, has issued a threat to all those affected by the breach. The attack on MOVEit directly led to a data breach affecting payroll services provider Zellis, as the company uses MOVEit as a third-party provider. This exposed the data for over 100,000 employees from a number of companies including the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), health and beauty retailer Boots and…

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07 Jun

Clop extortion gang gives MOVEit exploit victims one week to reach out

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

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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07 Jun

Network Perception wants to give more visibility into OT networks

Data Breaches, Malware, Social Engineering

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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