In the Midst of COVID-19, We’re Seeing a Pandemic of Cyber Attacks
By Babur Khan, Technical Marketing Engineer – Enterprise Security at A10 Networks In the first quarter of 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc around the globe. The coronavirus…
Why A ‘Layers and Lists’ Approach to Cybersecurity Is Doomed to Fail
By Gary Fischer, VP Americas, XM Cyber Why is cyber-defense such an asymmetrical war? Hackers can launch a barrage of attacks on a single target and keep going until they find…
ChaChi, a GoLang Trojan used in ransomware attacks on US schools
A new Trojan written in the Go programming language, tracked as ChaChi, was involved in ransomware attacks against government agencies and US schools. Researchers from BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence…
Overcoming Security as a Barrier to Cloud Adoption
By Ron Newman, SVP at NTT Ltd. Security Division The last year has forced organizations into change, both planned and unplanned. Companies have had to pivot, rethink their business strategies…
Three things’ organizations must do to secure “passwordless”
By Jerome Becquart, COO, Axiad The pandemic forced organizations to accelerate their journey to passwordless with secure authentication methods such as multi factor authentication (MFA), as individuals were expected to…
Norway blames China-linked APT31 for 2018 government hack
Norway police secret service states said that China-linked APT31 group was behind the 2018 cyberattack on the government’s IT network. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) said that the China-linked APT31…
Why XDR is Not Enough
By Guy Rosefelt, Security CMO, Sangfor Technologies What is XDR? One of the latest trends in cybersecurity is Extended Detection and Response, more commonly known as XDR. Although originally defined…
REvil ransomware gang hit US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens
The REvil ransomware gang made the headlines again, the group hit the US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens and stole the victim’s data. US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens was…
G7 calls on Russia to dismantle operations of ransomware gangs within its borders
The member states of the G7 group have called on Russia and other states to dismantle operations of the ransomware gangs operating within their countries. G7 member states have called…
Avaddon ransomware gang shuts down their operations and releases decryption keys
The Avaddon ransomware gang has shut down its operations and released the decryption keys to allow victims to recover their files for free. Good news for the victims of the…
Uncovering hidden cybersecurity risks
By Adam Nichols, Principal of Software Security at GRIMM The technology we use and depend upon has critical vulnerabilities in their software and firmware, lurking just beneath the surface of…
Why Ensuring Cyber Resilience Has Never Been More Critical or More Challenging Than It Is Today
By Don Boxley, Co-founder and CEO, DH2i When it comes to optimizing Microsoft SQL Server high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), there’s a strong correlation between greater database transaction…