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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Volkswagen hacked by Chinese threat group, DDoS service shut down, Rubrik IPO.

UK cybersecurity firm Darktace has agreed to sell itself to private equity giant Thoma Bravo for approximately $5.32 million in cash.

A vulnerability in the WordPress Automatic plugin is being exploited to inject backdoors and web shells into websites.

Predictive attack intelligence and risk protection startup BforeAI has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by SYN Ventures.

Palo Alto Networks has shared remediation instructions for organizations whose firewalls have been hacked via CVE-2024-3400.

A new phishing campaign abuses compromised email accounts and targets corporate users with PDF files hosted on Autodesk Drive.

The FTC is sending a total of $5.6 million in refunds to over 117,000 Ring customers as result of a 2023 settlement.

The Brocade SANnav management application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including a publicly available root password.

Zero trust endpoint security company ThreatLocker has announced a $115 million Series D funding round that brings the total to $240 million. 

IBM is acquiring HashiCorp for $6.4 billion for its infrastructure lifecycle management and security lifecycle management capabilities.

Pope Francis has called for an international treaty to ensure AI is developed and used ethically, devoting his annual peace message this year to the topic.

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Mike Dube has joined cloud security company Aqua Security as CRO.

Cody Barrow has been appointed as CEO of threat intelligence company EclecticIQ.

Shay Mowlem has been named CMO of runtime and application security company Contrast Security.

Attack detection firm Vectra AI has appointed Jeff Reed to the newly created role of Chief Product Officer.

Shaun Khalfan has joined payments giant PayPal as SVP, CISO.

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Palo Alto Networks has shared remediation instructions for organizations whose firewalls have been hacked via CVE-2024-3400.

CISA Warns of Windows Print Spooler Flaw After Microsoft Sees Russian Exploitation

CISA warns organizations of a two-year-old Windows Print Spooler vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

Threat Intelligence Report Threat Intelligence Report

Mandiant’s M-Trends 2024 report shows that defenses are improving – and that may be true. But the reality remains that these same statistics demonstrate that if anything, the attackers still retain the upper hand.

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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Volkswagen hacked by Chinese threat group, DDoS service shut down, Rubrik IPO.

UK cybersecurity firm Darktace has agreed to sell itself to private equity giant Thoma Bravo for approximately $5.32 million in cash.

A vulnerability in the WordPress Automatic plugin is being exploited to inject backdoors and web shells into websites.

Predictive attack intelligence and risk protection startup BforeAI has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by SYN Ventures.

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Zero-day disclosures, new tools and exploits abound in this year's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Next week, the Caesar's Palace hotel in Las Vegas will host the 15th annual gathering of the minds in the world of security known as Black Hat USA.

Armed with an extra $22.4 million in its pocket following a Series C financing round announced just over a week ago, AlienVault, the San Mateo, California-based company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, and the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, today announced the latest version of its suite of security management products.

Ever since the invention of the lock, someone (somewhere) has tried to defeat it, often going to extremely creative lengths to do so. Such is the case of Ray – a security researcher and law enforcement consultant from Germany– who used a 3D printer to generate copies of handcuff keys that are normally restricted to law enforcement; the Bonowi and Chubb.

CipherCloud, a provider of cloud encryption technologies, has launched a cloud encryption gateway for Office 365 that transparently encrypts all email, calendar, and contact data stored in Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange Online and third-party Hosted Exchange services.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in collaboration with the CERT Program of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), is launching a new education and certificate program designed for information security executives that will emphasize “strategic cybersecurity management”.

StrikeForce Technologies, TradeHarbor Partner on Three-Factor Authentication Using Voice Verification TechnologyStrikeForce Technologies, a provider of our-of-band authentication and security solutions, will combine voice verification software with its out-of-band authentication platform to create "three-factor" verification for customers increasingly worried about being compromised.

Researchers at malware intelligence firm FireEye are reporting that Dutch authorities have pulled the plug on two secondary servers used by the Grum botnet. The removal of the servers shines light on how quickly some law enforcement agencies work, given that proof of their existence is just over a week old.

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Cisco announces Hypershield, an AI-native and cloud-native enterprise security solution with a wide range of capabilities.