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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.

Cisco warns that nation state-backed hackers are exploiting at least two zero-day vulnerabilities in its ASA firewall platforms to plant malware on telecommunications and energy sector networks.

KnowBe4 boasts that the merger will create “the largest, advanced AI-driven cybersecurity platform for managing human risk.”

As a security industry, we need to focus our energies on those professionals among us who know how to walk the walk.

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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.

UK cybersecurity agency NCSC announced Richard Horne as its new CEO.

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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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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.

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Mocana MAP 2.0 Helps Secure Apps Running on iOS DevicesSmart device security firm Mocana, today introduced the latest version of its solution designed to help organizations add fine-grained security and usage policies around individual mobile apps with ease.

Controversial Domain Registrar Tightens Policy After Reports of Rogue Online Pharmacy LinksRegistrar Internet.bs has changed its domain name registration policy in light of reports criticizing its links to as many as one-third of the rogue pharmacies on the Internet.

On Friday, Palo Alto Networks, the network security firm that has made its mark developing next generation firewalls, filed an S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a widely-anticipated initial public offering.

Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered new Android malware that is controlled via SMS that can do a number of things on the compromised device including recording calls and surrounding noise.

Supports of Anonymous targeted the U.K. on Saturday, hitting the websites of the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice. While the attack only lasted a short time, Anonymous has said to expect more of the same as they push forward. Currently, the next target is said to be the GCHQ on April 14.

Network attacks and breaches have dominated the technical and mainstream news for the past 18 months, as attacks have grown both in volume and significance. Hacktivists used data breaches to embarrass their enemies, nation-states used intrusions to steal secrets and even directly attack infrastructure, and organized crime used breaches for good old-fashioned theft.

GreenSQL, a company that SecurityWeek first met earlier this year during the RSA Conference, recently released the results of a poll that included more than 6,000 customers, IT administrators, DBAs, InfoSec practitioners, and consultants. The results, when focused on information security and database security, show that the majority fear SQL Injection vulnerabilities.

What to Do When Your Website Has Been HackedWhile the following is by no means exhaustive, here are a few suggestions to begin with if your web site has been hacked.

John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer from 1999 to 2004, was indicted on Thursday for allegedly disclosing classified information to journalists. The restricted disclosure included the name of a covert officer and information related to the role a CIA employee played in classified operations.His indictment comes following an investigation that was triggered by what the Department of Justice is calling a “classified defense filing” back in January 2009.

Security firm Sophos with dual headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and Oxford, UK, made a decision to disable its partner portal following a breach that was discovered earlier this week. According to a notice on the portal itself, Sophos doesn’t know if any sensitive data was accessed including passwords and email addresses. Until the investigation in to the breach is concluded, the portal will remain offline.

Containing the Global Cybercrime Threat is The Focus of The CeCOS VI Summit Taking Place in Prague, Czech Republic Later This MonthLater this month, global leaders from various industries, government, law enforcement, communications sectors, and research centers will gather in in Prague, Czech Republic for the Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VI).

In Australia, the local police will be informing businesses and residents that their wireless signal is unprotected and therefore open for criminal activity.According to the Sydney Morning Herald, police in Queensland will be the first to provide the new service. It is hoped that securing wireless in the area will help cut down on the number of cases of fraud, however, this is still just an informational campaign with no fines for non-compliance.

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