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In a signal move for the cybersecurity sector, identity and access management (IAM) vendor SailPoint has made its return to public markets.

The chief deputy attorney general of the agency sent an email on Wednesday that said nearly all of is computer systems were offline.

Former RNC official Sean Cairncross has been nominated for the post of National Cyber Director to streamline the US cybersecurity strategy.

In the latest edition of “Rising Tides” we talk with Lesley Carhart, Technical Director of Incident Response at Dragos.

Meta received close to 10,000 vulnerability reports and paid out over $2.3 million in bug bounty rewards in 2024.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Google pays $10,000 bug bounty for YouTube vulnerability, Cybereason CEO sues two investors, Otorio launches new OT security tool.

The exploitation of a recent SonicWall vulnerability has started shortly after proof-of-concept (PoC) code was published.

China-linked APT Salt Typhoon has been exploiting known vulnerabilities in Cisco devices in attacks on telecom providers in the US and abroad.

ClearSky Cyber Security says it has seen a new Windows zero-day being exploited by a Chinese APT named Mustang Panda. 

Identity management provider SGNL has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Brightmind Partners.

Attempts to exploit CVE-2024-0108, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto firewalls, started one day after disclosure. 

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The US arm of networking giant TP-Link has appointed Adam Robertson as Director of Information and Security.

Raj Dodhiawala has been named Chief Product Officer at Eclypsium.

Cyber exposure management firm Armis has promoted Alex Mosher to President.

Software giant Atlassian has named David Cross as its new CISO.

Dan Pagel has been named the new CEO of risk management and remediation firm Brinqa.

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ClearSky Cyber Security says it has seen a new Windows zero-day being exploited by a Chinese APT named Mustang Panda. 

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Rapid7 finds a new zero-day vulnerability in PostgreSQL and links it to chain of attacks against a BeyondTrust Remote Support product.

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An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek shows that 405 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2024.

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A subgroup of the Russia-linked Seashell Blizzard is tasked with broad initial access operations to sustain long-term persistence.

The Microsoft Patch Tuesday machine hummed loudly this month with urgent fixes for a pair of already-exploited Windows zero-days.

Intel says roughly 100 of the 374 vulnerabilities it patched last year were firmware and hardware security defects.

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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.

Dell SecureWorks recently published a report on the Waledac / Kelihos botnet and its role in a recent takedown operation. Unfortunately, while the initial efforts were successful, the controllers of the botnet have moved on and resumed operations.

Lookout Mobile Security has discovered a new variant of the Legacy Native (LaNa) malware for Android which opens a backdoor to the device. Unlike previous versions of LaNa, where the device had to first be rooted and depended on user interaction, this new variant doesn’t require the user at all, and will work on non-rooted devices.

McAfee today launched a new agentless AntiVirus (AV) solution for its McAfee Management for Optimized Virtual Environments (MOVE) platform that provides protection against various physical and virtual attacks through a single console.Designed to integrate with VMware vShield™ Endpoint, the solution offers customers standardized security across all major hypervisor vendors and addresses the challenges of protecting virtual environments in order to keep them malware-free.

TIBCO Software, a publicly traded (NASDAQ: TIBX) provider of infrastructure software solutions, on Tuesday night said that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire San Jose California-based LogLogic, a provider of and log management and security intelligence solutions, for an undisclosed sum.

Security firm Sophos today announced its intent to acquire DIALOGS, a small European mobile device management firm.Privately-held DIALOGS is headquartered in Germany and counts companies including BMW AG, Daimler AG, Siemens AG and ThyssenKrupp as customers.

Adobe Systems recently released an open source tool to help security pros in the fight against malware.According to the company, the Adobe Malware Classifier is a command-line tool aimed to help antivirus analysts, IT administrators and security researchers determine if a binary file contains malware so they can develop malware detection signatures faster. The tool uses machine-learning algorithms to categorize Win32 binaries – exe and DLL files – into three classes: 0, representing clean; 1, representing malicious; and unknown.

Pastebin.com has become a popular place for stolen data as well as boasts from hackers associated with Anonymous and other groups. The site’s status as a home for hackers may soon be in jeopardy however.In an interview with BBC, Pastebin owner Jeroen Vader stated that the site is looking to hire additional people to monitor the website’s content.

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San Francisco application security startup raises $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Menlo Ventures. 

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APIs are easy to develop, simple to implement, and frequently attacked. They are  prime and lucrative targets for cybercriminals. 

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