Threat Intelligence

Network Security

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The company said the new equity round was led by L2 Point Management and brings the total raised to $70 million. SimSpace is marketing a so-called “Cyber Force Platform” that provides technology for organizations to stand up pre-defined or customized cyber range simulations that are secure and scalable “SimSpace’s internal threat intelligence teams and partners,…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cisco’s massive $28 billion acquisition of Splunk in September was the financial highlight of a quarter during which several other vendors also made strategic purchases to position themselves for emerging enterprise requirements around cloud, application, and identity security. The acquisitions added to a better-than-expected quarter ended Sept. 30, 2023, with venture funding also picking up…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Attackers targeted a major US energy company with a phishing campaign that overall sent more than 1,000 emails armed with malicious QR codes aimed at stealing Microsoft credentials. The campaign, discovered by Cofense in May, used both PNG image attachments and redirect links associated with Microsoft Bing and well-known business applications — including Salesforce and…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Hardcoded credentials in the Dell Compellent storage array service could enable attackers to take over enterprise VMware environments for any organizations running those two services in collaboration. Dell Compellent reached its end of life in 2019, and holds less than a 1% share of the data storage market, according to Enlyft. However, organizations still using…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Teams running the Zimbra Collaboration Suite version 8.8.15 are urged to apply a manual fix against a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability that’s being actively exploited in the wild. The Zimbra cloud suite offers email, calendar functions, and other enterprise collaboration tools. The vulnerability compromises the security of data on Zimbra servers, the company said in…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cargo containers filled with imports and exports from all over the world have been stuck at the Port of Nagoya following a ransomware attack on its networks early Tuesday morning. The port is the largest in Japan and the central shipping hub for international carmaker Toyota. According to its operator, Nagoya Harbor Transportation, it received…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Kaspersky researchers have provided further details on the CommonMagic campaign, which was first observed in March targeting companies in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict area. The new research reveals more sophisticated malicious activities from the same threat actor. The investigation identified that the newly-discovered framework has expanded its victimology to include organizations in Central and Western Ukraine….

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

The Trigona ransomware threat actors are waging a campaign against Microsoft SQL database servers because many of them have external connections and weak passwords, leaving them open targets for brute force or dictionary attacks. These vulnerable MS-SQL servers were designated as “poorly managed” by AhnLab Security’s new alert about Trigona’s nefarious activities. “If a threat…