Month: February 2023

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Canonic Security, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, emerged from stealth exactly a year ago with $6 million in seed-stage venture capital funding for technology in the third-party app governance space. The publicly traded Zscaler, based in San Jose, CalifCanonic’s platform is designed to prevent expanding risks associated…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by North Korea-linked hacker groups are used by the government of Pyongyang to fund its malicious cyber operations, U.S. and South Korean agencies warn. US CISA published a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to provide information about the threat actors to network defenders. The joint CSA about ongoing ransomware activity against…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

The US and the UK have issued joint sanctions against alleged members of the TrickBot cybercrime gang for their role in cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. Trickbot, as a malware, began life as a lowly banking Trojan before its authors started adding modules for other forms of malicious activity. It thus evolved into a multifaceted cyber-Swiss…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The seven individuals are being blamed for a series of major ransomware attacks targeting organizations in the US and the United Kingdom and the Treasury Department said it has information linking the hacking group to Russian intelligence services. “Current members of the Trickbot Group are associated with Russian Intelligence Services. The Trickbot Group’s preparations in…

Application Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Twitter’s new policies surrounding its application programming interface (API) have just gone into effect — and they will have broad implications for social media bots, both good (RSS integrations, say) and evil (political influencer campaigns), researchers note. On Feb. 2, the Twitter dev team announced that the site would no longer provide free access to…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO Online

Researchers warn that a new threat actor has been targeting over a thousand organizations since October with the goal of deploying credential-stealing malware. The attack chain also involves reconnaissance components including a Trojan that takes screenshots of the desktops of infected computers. Tracked as TA866 by researchers from security firm Proofpoint, the group’s tooling seems…