5 online scam red flags
No one — gamer, cryptocurrency investor, or online shopper — is safe from scammers. But no matter who the victim is or how sophisticated the scheme may be, there is always a way to sniff out fraud before it’s too late. Today we’re looking at five common signs of online scams to help you avoid…
Authorization and IAM Company PlainID Raises $75 Million in Series C Funding
The funding round was led by New York-based Insight Partners, with participation from all previous investors, including Itai Tsiddon and Viola Ventures. Founded in 2014, the Tel Aviv-based PlainID provides organizations with a policy-based authorization solution that seeks to bring together IAM and cybersecurity with a real-time decision engine, all in a single, intuitive interface….
When Threat Research Goes Wrong: Spectacular Screwups and What to Learn from Them
Threat researchers on the cutting edge of cybersecurity have a certain kind of drive — almost a relentless need — to get into the attacker’s mind, solve the “unsolvable” challenge and expose emerging attack techniques. So, it’s not every day these elite researchers come together to share the secrets to their success, and it’s even…
VMware Patches Vulnerabilities in Workspace ONE Access
Two new vulnerabilities were fixed, the most severe of which is CVE-2021-22057 (CVSS score of 6.6), an authentication bypass that affects VMware Verify two factor authentication. By exploiting the vulnerability, a malicious actor who has gained knowledge of the first-factor authentication, may provide it to obtain second-factor authentication from VMware Verify, VMware says. Tracked as…
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup for December 13-19, 2021
ClosingLock acquires SafeWire ClosingLock announced the acquisition of SafeWire. Both companies are based in the United States and they offer wire fraud prevention solutions for the real estate industry. DFIN acquires Guardum Risk and compliance solutions company Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN) has acquired Guardum, a data security and privacy firm that can help companies locate,…
ZeroFox to Go Public in $1.4 Billion SPAC Deal
ZeroFox provides an AI-powered platform that protects users and brands from social media-sourced threats. The platform analyzes millions of pieces of publicly-accessible content in platforms such as Microsoft 365, G Suite, LinkedIn, Facebook, Slack, Instagram, and Apple and Google mobile app stores — looking for potential threats such as account compromise, fraudulent profiles, business email…
Citizen Lab Exposes Cytrox as Vendor Behind ‘Predator’ iPhone Spyware
Citizen Lab teamed up with the threat-intel team at Facebook parent company Meta to expose Cytrox alongside a handful of PSOAs (private sector offensive actors) in the murky surveillance-for-hire industry. In a detailed technical report published late Thursday, Citizen Lab said Cytrox is responsible for a piece of iPhone eavesdropping malware that was planted on…
Trend Micro Spots Chinese Hackers Targeting Transportation Sector
Also known as Earth Centaur and KeyBoy, the advanced persistent threat (APT) has been around since 2011, conducting espionage campaigns against organizations in government, healthcare, high-tech, and transportation sectors in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Taiwan. As part of the attacks conducted over the past year and a half, Trend Micro warned that the group…
Thousands of Industrial Systems Targeted With New ‘PseudoManuscrypt’ Spyware
The attacks targeted 35,000 devices in 195 countries between January and November 2021, including devices housed by high-profile organizations. Roughly seven percent of the targets were ICS, with the engineering and building automation sectors being most impacted. Attacks were also aimed at military industrial enterprises and research laboratories. In many cases, the attackers targeted engineering…
Corellium Lands $25 Million Investment for Virtualization Tech
Corellium, a Florida-based company with its roots in the iPhone jailbreaking community, said the $25 million Series A also included investments from Cisco investments and other strategic investors. Corellium LogoThe money comes exactly a year after a federal judge dismissed Apple’s copyright lawsuit against Corellium and the two sides reached a settlement on another matter…
