Amazon’s Shuttering of Alexa Ranking Service Hits Cybersecurity Industry
When accessing alexa.com, users are now greeted by an end of service notice that says the site was retired on May 1, 2022. Alexa was founded in 1996 and it was acquired by Amazon in 1999. Amazon announced its decision to retire the service in December 2021. The Alexa Top Sites and Web Information Service…
Zero Trust VPN Company Tailscale Raises $100 Million
The investment round was led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Accel, Heavybit, Uncork Capital, and angel investors. Founded in 2019, the Toronto-based company offers a WireGuard-based private network connectivity solution with zero-config and end-to-end encryption, which integrates with services such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Okta, Caddy Server, Syncthing, and…
Customer Passwords are a Target for Cybercriminals: How to Address the Threat
Companies face various cyber risks, ranging from ransomware to data theft. Cyber threat actors gain access to an organization’s systems in various ways. However, cybercriminals commonly take the path of least resistance, and organizations’ reliance on password-based authentication provides numerous avenues of attack. Passwords are known to be a weak form of authentication, and the…
The reality of workload portability across clouds
Businesses are investing substantial funds and efforts into migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds, in part motivated by the hypothesis that, once cloud-based, those workloads will be relatively easy to move from one cloud provider to another. Unfortunately, the reality is unlikely to be so simple. It’s been estimated that about half of…
New attack surface management product takes full-stack aim at sofware supply chain threats
Software supply chains have become a tasty target for adversaries fueled by successful, high-profile attacks on companies like Solarwinds and Kaseya and open-source offerings like Log4j. Now a software applications security company seeks to address the problem with what it’s saying is the first attack surface management (ASM) product to address threats across the application…
Fake Cyberpunk Ape Executives target artists with malware-laden job offer
The wacky world of ape jpegs are at the heart of yet another increasingly bizarre internet scam, which contains malware, stolen accounts, a faint possibility of phishing, and zips full of ape pictures. The Ape Executives have a job offer you can, and must, refuse Lots of people with art profiles on social media in…
German Finance Watchdog Sees ‘Very Big’ Risk of Cyberattacks
Germany’s financial regulator BaFin warned Tuesday of the “very big” risk of cyberattacks targeting the financial sector, a threat it said had become “more likely” since Russia’s war on Ukraine. “The risk that companies in the financial sector will fall victim to cyberattacks or that internal IT security incidents will occur is very big and…
REvil Revival: Are Ransomware Gangs Ever Really Gone?
Evidence that members of the defunct REvil group may be reviving the ransomware gang continues to accumulate, but cybersecurity experts question whether the group will have the same impact that it once did. On April 29, anti-malware firm Avast revealed that the company’s software had blocked a ransomware sample that appeared to be generated using…
How Advances in Cloud Security Can Help with Ransomware
The ransomware scourge continues, with incidents hitting a U.S. record in the second quarter of 2021, as attackers expand into vertical industries and target critical infrastructure. Ransom demands have also been growing. According to IT Governance, the average decryption key rate from attackers is $140,000 yet many organizations end up paying much more than that….
New Black Basta Ransomware Possibly Linked to Conti Group
The existence of Black Basta came to light in mid-April, but MalwareHunterTeam researchers spotted a sample apparently compiled in February. The cybercriminals behind Black Basta use malware to encrypt files on compromised systems, appending the .basta extension to encrypted files. In addition, like many other ransomware groups, they steal large amounts of information from victims…
