The US cybersecurity agency CISA on Wednesday released guidance for highly targeted individuals to protect their mobile communications against exploitation from threat actors. The document was published as reaction to a recent telecom hacking campaign that targeted large wireless carriers in the US, including Verizon, AT&T, Lumen Technologies, and T-Mobile, and which has been attributed […]
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the sentencing of a Ukrainian national for his role in the distribution of the Raccoon Infostealer malware. The man, Mark Sokolovsky, 28, was arrested in March 2022 in the Netherlands, after the FBI and law enforcement agencies in Italy and the Netherlands took down the infrastructure behind […]
Cisco this week announced its intention to acquire threat detection and defense company SnapAttack to boost Splunk security product capabilities. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. SnapAttack has created a platform that provides detection engineering, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and SIEM migration capabilities. “With Cisco’s acquisition of SnapAttack, security teams using Splunk […]
Fortinet on Wednesday announced patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in Wireless Manager (FortiWLM) that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. An application suite for wireless device management, FortiWLM enables enterprises to monitor, operate, and administer wireless networks on Fortinet firewalls that are managed using FortiManager. The critical security defect, tracked as CVE-2023-34990 (CVSS score […]
Alphabet spinoff SandboxAQ on Wednesday announced raising $300 million in funding at a valuation of $5.3 billion. The latest funding round, which brings the total raised by the quantum company to over $800 million, saw participation from Fred Alger Management, T. Rowe Price Associates, Mumtalakat, Parkway Venture Capital, Breyer Capital, Rizvi Traverse, S32, US Innovative […]
Google on Wednesday announced a Chrome browser update that resolves five vulnerabilities, including four high-severity memory safety bugs reported by external researchers. Tracked as CVE-2024-12692, the first of the externally reported issues is a type confusion flaw in the browser’s V8 JavaScript engine, for which Google paid out $55,000 to the researcher who reported it. […]
Juniper Networks routers using default passwords have been targeted in a botnet infection campaign, the networking products manufacturer warns. According to the company, multiple customers reported a week ago suspicious behavior on their session smart routers (SSR), which was determined to be an infection with Mirai malware. All the impacted systems were using default credentials, […]
Bureau, a San Francisco startup selling a risk intelligence platform for businesses, has attracted $30 million in new venture capital financing as investors bet on AI-powered fraud prevention technologies. The company said the Series B raise was led by Sorenson Capital and also included equity stakes for PayPal Ventures, Commerce Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, Quona […]
The Russian government has tagged U.S. threat intelligence firm Recorded Future as an undesirable organization, accusing the U.S. firm of participating in the collection and analysis of data on the actions of its military operations. A note from Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office accused Recorded Future of providing Ukrainian specialists with free access to programs used […]
Nebraska-based healthcare insurance firm Regional Care has disclosed a data breach impacting more than 225,000 individuals. The third-party insurance administrator is informing impacted individuals that their personal and medical information may have been compromised as a result of an incident identified in mid-September 2024. Regional Care discovered at the time that there had been some […]