As the massive ESXiArgs ransomware campaign continues to target unpatched VMware ESXi hypervisors, cybersecurity experts have released a script that can decrypt at least some affected virtual machines. Ransomware trackers count at least 2,803 victims, primarily in France, the U.S. and Germany.
Hong Kong police and Interpol disrupted an international criminal operation that planted banking Trojans through SMS phishing messages that appeared to originate from a legitimate source. Hong Kong police told the South China Morning Post the gang appears to be based overseas.
Skybox Security has landed former Digital Guardian CEO Mo Rosen to pursue profitability and drive adoption of the security policy and vulnerability management vendor's SaaS platform. The San Jose, California-based company tasked Rosen with making Skybox's SaaS tool easier to deploy and use.
Fortinet has blunted the impact of the economic downturn by helping customers consolidate their security footprint and add protection in areas like OT, WiFi and SD-WAN. CEO Ken Xie says Fortinet's ASIC chip allows the company to take market share from rivals while delivering superior performance.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has joined a growing list of organizations being sued for allegations that its use of website tracking codes is unlawfully sharing individuals' personal and health information to third-party social media and marketing companies.
The German government selected a new president for the Federal Office for Information Security, better known as BSI. Claudia Plattner, currently serving as the European Central Bank's director general of information systems, is set to lead the agency starting on July 1.
Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov, 30, pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Federal prosecutors say the Russian national laundered more than $400,000 for the Ryuk ransomware-as-a-service gang. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a potential fine of $500,000.
APIs represent the best and worst of times - "massive amounts of business value, but massive amounts of unmitigated risk," says Richard Bird, CSO, Traceable AI. In the past year, misconfigured or error-prone APIs resulted in high-profile breaches at Twitter and T-Mobile. He sees more on the horizon.
Police in multiple European countries carried out raids against the operators and users of the Exclu encrypted chat app, arresting four dozen individuals. German authorities began investigating the app following a 2019 raid on the Cyberbunker web hosting facility.
Secureworks has axed roughly 210 employees, and CFO Paul Parrish and Chief Threat Intelligence Officer Barry Hensley are leaving their posts. Secureworks revealed plan to reduce its 2,351-person staff by approximately 9% to help balance continued growth with improved operating margins.
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector slumped, but they now appear to be slowly rebounding. What does this mean in terms of potential security risks that organizations undergoing consolidation face?
The aim of AI in EDR solutions is to streamline the process to ensure humans are able to consume and understand the data in order to respond well, says Serge Woon, worldwide tech sales leader and co-founder at ReaQta, part of IBM. In this roundtable preview, he explains why AI is so crucial to EDR.
Microsoft suffered its second major outage in less than two weeks, as users in North America and beyond were left unable to send, receive or search emails via Outlook.com and unable to access some additional functionality, including calendar APIs. Microsoft blamed unspecified "recent changes."
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