SecurityWeek
Token Security Raises $7 Million Seed Funding for Machine-First Identity Security
Tel Aviv-based Token Security has emerged from stealth with $7 million seed funding led by TLV Partners with participation from SNR and angel investors.
SecurityWeek
Machine Identity Firm Venafi Readies for the 90-day Certificate Lifecycle
Venafi’s 90-Day TLS Readiness solution enhances its existing technology to provide full, demonstrable, and visible compliance with the coming 90-day mandate.
SecurityWeek
Heartbleed is 10 Years Old – Farewell Heartbleed, Hello QuantumBleed!
Quantum decryption will make all certificates and everything else using RSA encryption vulnerable to everyone.
Security Affairs
The DDR Advantage: Real-Time Data Defense
This is the advantage of Data Detection and Response (DDR) for organizations aiming to build a real-time data defense.
SecurityWeek
Cyber Insights 2024: Artificial Intelligence
AI's progress in 2024 and beyond: 2023 was a year of hype, 2024 brings the beginning of AI reality, and 2025 likely to be its delivery.
SecurityWeek
Nozomi Unveils Wireless Security Sensor for OT, IoT Environments
Nozomi extends its offering with Guardian Air, a security sensor designed to help organizations detect wireless threats in OT and IoT.
SecurityWeek
New Offerings From Protect AI, Venafi Tackle Software Supply Chain Security
Products from Venafi and Protect AI aim to secure traditional open source software supply chain and the new AI model software supply chain.
CSO
Venafi’s new offering to block unauthorized code across user environments
The new code sign enforcement offering will streamline code authorization to root out malicious third-party scripts.
Infosecurity News
Over Half of Users Report Kubernetes/Container Security Incidents
Many say it led to a subsequent data breach
CSO
Most cloud moves found rushed as adopters underrate associated risks: Report
More than half of security leaders surveyed didn’t understand the security risks associated with shifting to the cloud.
CSO
Venafi taps generative AI to streamline machine identity management
Venafi’s Athena, based on a new large language model (LLM), offers users a natural language interface and provides developers with automated code generation for important integrations.
SecurityWeek
Venafi Leverages Generative AI to Manage Machine Identities
Venafi launched a proprietary generative AI model to help with the mammoth, complex, and expanding problem of managing machine identities.
Infosecurity News
UK’s AI Safety Summit Scheduled For Early November
Experts welcome efforts to safeguard society from emerging technologies
Infosecurity News
EU Passes Landmark Artificial Intelligence Act
The European Parliament adopted the latest draft of the legislation with an overwhelming majority
Security Affairs
How to Combat Insider Threats
Knowing that insider threats are a risk is one thing. Knowing how to fight them off is entirely another. Dealing with issues of insider cyber risk can be different and nuanced. It’s hard to admit that someone from within the company could ‘not be who they say they are’, and it takes a group effort […]
Infosecurity News
Hackers Fake Emsisoft Certificate to Hide Attack
Attempt to trick network defenders into allow-listing remote access app
Infosecurity News
GitHub Confirms Signing Certificates Stolen in Cyber-Attack, Revokes Them
Revoking these certificates will invalidate some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom
The Record
FBI: North Korean hacking group Lazarus behind $100 million crypto heist
The FBI accused the notorious North Korean hacker group Lazarus of stealing $100 million from a United States-based cryptocurrency firm last year.
Infosecurity News
FBI Confirms Lazarus Group Was Behind $100m Harmony Hack
The North Korean cyber actors laundered over $60m worth of Ethereum stolen during the heist
SecurityWeek
Thoma Bravo to Buy Magnet Forensics in Billion-Dollar Deal
Thoma Bravo’s shopping spree in the cybersecurity lane is showing no signs of slowing down.
Bleeping Computer
The Dark Web is Getting Darker - Ransomware Thrives on Illegal Markets
The dark web is getting darker as cybercrime gangs increasingly shop their malware, phishing, and ransomware tools on illegal cybercrime markets.
DarkReading
Ransomware Professionalization Grows as RaaS Takes Hold
As ransomware's prevalence has grown over the past decade, leading ransomware groups such as Conti have added services and features as part of a growing trend toward professionalization.
Infosecurity News
UK Government Urges Action to Enhance Supply Chain Security
The NCSC guidance has been issued amid a significant increase in supply chain attacks in recent years
CyberSecurity Dive
Microsoft’s CISO on why cloud matters for security response
Cloud can give companies insight into current and future threats as the landscape grows more complex, said Bret Arsenault.
SecurityWeek
More Than Half of Security Pros Say Risks Higher in Cloud Than On Premise
Report shows that forty-five percent of companies have had four or more cloud incidents in the last year
CyberSecurity Dive
Most organizations had a cloud-related security incident in the past year
Security leaders consider the risk of cloud-based incidents higher than on-premises incidents, yet they expect to move more applications to the cloud.
Infosecurity News
War in Ukraine Has Pushed Two-Thirds of Businesses to Change Cyber Strategy
The use of machine identity tools is growing in state-sponsored cyber-attacks
SecurityWeek
Security Pros Believe Cybersecurity Now Aligned With Cyberwar
More than three-quarters of security professionals in large organizations believe the world is now in a state of perpetual cyberwar – and 82% consider that geopolitics and cybersecurity are fundamentally linked.
DarkReading
A Ransomware Explosion Fosters Thriving Dark Web Ecosystem
For the right price, threat actors can get just about anything they want to launch a ransomware attack — even without technical skills or any previous experience.
Infosecurity News
Cybercrime a Key Revenue Stream For North Korea's Weapons Program
North Korea stole millions of dollars in crypto assets in at least one major hack
Infosecurity News
Dark Web Research Suggests 87% of Ransomware brands Exploit Malicious Macros
The findings uncovered 475 web pages of elaborate ransomware products and services
Security Affairs
Strong Authentication – Robust Identity and Access Management Is a Strategic Choice
Passwords no longer meet the demands of today’s identity and access requirements. Therefore, strong authentication methods are needed. “Usernames and passwords are insufficient and vulnerable means of authentication on their own; therefore, it is essential to employ strong authentication techniques like multi-factor authentication (MFA) to confirm users’ identities before granting secure access to resources,” Sarah […]
DarkReading
US Offers $10M Double-Reward for North Korea Cyberattacker Info
North Korean state-sponsored actors, who help economically prop up Kim Jong Un's dictatorship, continue to pummel US infrastructure.
CyberSecurity Dive
Organizational changes required to mitigate security risks
Executives are implementing new strategies to lower software supply chain risk, but evaluating internal operations could prove more effective.
SecurityWeek
US Government Says North Korean IT Workers Enable DPRK Hacking Operations
The US government has warned that rogue IT workers from North Korea enable DPRK hacking operations and provide logistical support for its threat actors.
Infosecurity News
US Government Warns Firms to Avoid Hiring North Korean IT Workers
North Korean IT workers are attempting to generate revenue for DPRK and conduct cyber intrusions
SecurityWeek
API IAM Security Provider Corsha Raises $12 Million
API security firm Corsha has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Ten Eleven Ventures and Razor’s Edge Ventures.
Security Affairs
What is credential stuffing? And how to prevent it?
This post explains what is a credential stuffing attack and which are the countermeasures to prevent them. A credential stuffing attempt can be caught as a behavioral anomaly – if you’re looking. Earmarked by the FBI as a particular threat to the financial service industry just over a year ago, the increase of internet traffic, […]
DarkReading
Okta Says 366 Customers Impacted via Third-Party Breach
Microsoft meanwhile confirms Lapsus$ group compromised it as well and issues warning on threat actor.
Infosecurity News
Nvidia Appears to Brush Off Ransomware Attack
Online chatter suggests chip giant “hacked back” at its attacker
DataBreaches
Ransomware extortion doesn’t stop after paying the ransom
Who would have thought that criminals might lie? Where’s my shocked face? Bill Toulas reports on findings from a survey by Venafi. Here is some of what...
Bleeping Computer
Ransomware extortion doesn't stop after paying the ransom
A global survey that looked into the experience of ransomware victims highlights the lack of trustworthiness of ransomware actors, as in most cases of paying the ransom, the extortion simply continues.