Latest Cyberthreats and Advisories – September 30, 2022

Russian cybercrime, social media corruption and a tidal wave of malicious app downloads…. ​​Here are the latest threats and advisories for the week of September 30, 2022. Threat Advisories and Alerts CISA Issues Warning to OT/ICS Owners and Operators Operational technology/industrial control system (OT/ICS) assets continue to be an attractive target for cybercriminals, and...

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2022 State of Bot Mitigation Report: Growing Majority of Companies (69%) Lose Revenue Due to Bot-Driven Account Fraud

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kasada, provider of the most effective and easiest way to defend against advanced bot attacks, today released its annual report on the state of bot mitigation and automated fraud. The 2022 State of Bot Mitigation Report is based on the findings of organizations that are already using anti-bot solutions and compares results against last year’s report. The...

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Menlo Security Names Kate Terrell Chief Human Resources Officer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Menlo Security, a leader in cloud security, today announced that Kate Terrell has joined the company as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Reporting to Menlo co-founder and CEO, Amir Ben-Efraim, Terrell is chartered with leading and managing the company’s strategies for all aspects of HR including talent acquisition, talent management...

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70% of Security/IT Professionals Say They are Overwhelmed by the Complexity of their Authentication Systems

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Axiad, a leading provider of organization-wide passwordless orchestration, today announced the results of its 2022 Authentication Survey, revealing that executives have their hands full managing the underlying complexity of their authentication practices – a foundational element of most cybersecurity strategies around the globe. The survey...

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IronNet Launches IronRadar to Automatically Block Adversary Infrastructure

MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IronNet, Inc. (NYSE: IRNT), an innovative leader Transforming Cybersecurity Through Collective DefenseSM, has launched IronRadarSM, a new solution designed to proactively and automatically update customers’ cybersecurity tools with malicious indicators for adversary infrastructure. Developed by IronNet’s team of elite threat hunters, IronRadar...

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University of Phoenix Lead Cybersecurity Faculty Stephanie Benoit-Kurtz to Keynote Women in IT Special Event

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–University of Phoenix announces that Stephanie Benoit-Kurtz, MBA, Lead Cybersecurity Faculty at the College of Business and Information Technology, will be the keynote speaker at a special Women in IT breakfast event during the Trace3 Evolve Technology Conference. The special event will be held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on October...

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HackNotice Adds Easy, Continuous Phishing to Its World-Class Threat Awareness Platform

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HackNotice, the leading threat awareness platform, has added continuous phishing to its robust program. The additional phishing capability educates employees about phishing and social engineering attacks while helping businesses to achieve cybersecurity compliance. HackNotice’s phishing helps people understand and recognize the different types...

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Affected Optus cyber attack customers to get police protection

Australian Police authorities have released a press statement on Optus Cyber Attack and confirmed that they are going to protect the details of 10,000 affected customers from leaking online. Although the Telecom giant admitted last week that information of over 10 million accounts was accessed by hackers, the law enforcement has claimed that it will only protect the leaked data of only 10k customers. Justine Gough, the assistant commission for the cyber wing of Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed the news and disclosed that his agency was...

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Kaspersky suffers because of the Russian war over Ukraine

Russian has waged a war with Ukraine in February this year and since then it has been trying many tactics to bring its enemy to its knees. Although the entire world is against the war and the killings of the innocent, Vladimir Putin is disinterested in calling off the war as he has lost a lot of time, ammunition, money and resources after the start of the war and is now in a situation where he cannot take a turn back. Kaspersky, a cybersecurity firm that has nothing to do with the war or its consequences, seems to suffer severely because of the...

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55,000 Cybersecurity Candidates Join (ISC)² Workforce Programs in One Month

One month after launching three new initiatives, (ISC)² Candidates, (ISC)² Certified in Cybersecurity SM and (ISC)² One Million Certified in Cybersecurity, aimed at addressing the cybersecurity workforce gap, we are thrilled to share our initial successes. We have seen a rapid adoption within the past 30 days of these programs among cybersecurity candidates...

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IDC Financial Insights Recognizes CSI as a Top Fintech Provider for 11th Consecutive Year

PADUCAH, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) (OTCQX: CSVI), a provider of end-to-end fintech and regtech solutions, has been named by IDC Financial Insights to its “2022 IDC FinTech Rankings” for the 11th consecutive year. The annual ranking highlights the top 100 global technology providers in the industry. Rising seven spots from last year’s ranking and nine...

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Half of US Consumer’s Personal Data was stolen in 2021

It might sound weird! But according to a survey, half of the US Consumer’s Personal Data was stolen or compromised last year. This was revealed in a 2022 Consumer Impact report released by Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) on Tuesday this week. As per the response given by 1371 consumers who were questioned about their experience, it is estimated that half of the population have or might have experienced data theft that was stolen, or compromised in a data breach or misused last year. Astonishingly, most of the information steals cases where...

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American Fast Company website shutdown after Cyber Attack

Fast Company that offers technology and business news through print and online circulation was hit by a cyber-attack recently, promoting the company to shut it down on a temporary note. Details are in that the hackers took control of the Content Management System and sent obscene messages to the home screens of Apple news subscribers from Tuesday night. The US based media company acknowledged the hack as true on its social media account and added that it has taken all measures to block such incidents in the future. FastCompany.com was unavailable...

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81% of Companies Had a Cloud Security Incident in the Last Year

SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Venafi®, the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, today announced the findings of new research that evaluates the complexity of cloud environments and its impact on cybersecurity. The study found that 81% of organizations experienced a cloud-related security incident over the last 12 months, with almost half (45%) suffering...

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Skybox Security Reduces the Risk of Data Breach by 55%, Total Economic Impact™ Study Reveals

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Skybox Security today released an independent cost-benefit analysis of its industry-leading Security Posture Management Platform. The Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Study, commissioned by Skybox Security, quantifies how Skybox customers can significantly reduce their exposure to data breaches resulting from internal and external threat...

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CrowdStrike Named One of the Best Workplaces for Women

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), a leader in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, today announced its recognition as one of the Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine 2022 Best Workplaces for Women. This is CrowdStrike’s first time being named to this prestigious list, adding to the growing list of awards...

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Trellix Expands XDR Platform to Transform Security Operations

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Xpand Live – Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), today announced the expansion of its XDR platform. Trellix XDR enables the company’s 40,000+ customers to build greater cyber resiliency, maximize the value of their existing security tools, and reduce mean time to detection and response. “We...

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Russian Cyber Attack acts as a wake-up call for Commercial Satellite Operators

Russia launched a cyber attack on a private satellite operator called KA-SAT Network, just after it started an invasion of Ukraine 8 months ago. Though the attack disrupted thousands of routers across the Zelensky led nation, it did some good as many commercial firms offering satellite-based services treated this attack as a wake-up call to bolster their IT infrastructure. Tesla Chief Elon Musk who owns SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite services revealed in one his tweets that his teams have detected multiple such attacks on space systems in this year....

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Latest Cyberthreats and Advisories – September 16, 2022

Vulnerabilities in popular tech, major WordPress plugin attacks and phishing, highlight this week’s cybersecurity news. Here are the latest threats and advisories for the week of September 16, 2022. Threat Advisories and Alerts Security Updates Released for Apple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities For the eighth time this year, Apple has addressed zero-day vulnerabilities in its Mac...

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