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Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

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…

Software Security

Issued by: CSO

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…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Mandiant announced the findings of an annual report that provides timely data and insights based on frontline investigations and remediations of high-impact cyber attacks worldwide. The 2022 report––which tracks investigation metrics between October 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021—reveals that while significant progress has been made in threat detection and response, adversaries are still innovating…

Network Security

Issued by: CIO Security

It sounds like a nearly perfect cybersecurity solution: Intercept incoming data before it reaches the user’s web browser; isolate it in a secure sandbox; and send only the screen images—or pixels—to the browser. The ephemeral server is fully isolated from the organization’s IT assets and data, and its browser sessions are destroyed when the user…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Dubbed Enemybot, the botnet appears to be the work of Keksec, an established cybercrime group that specializes in DDoS attacks and cryptocurrency mining. The malware was built using the source code of the Gafgyt (Bashlite) botnet – which leaked in 2015 – with some modules borrowed from the infamous Mirai botnet, including the scanner module…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The developers of Spring, which is owned by VMware and said to be the world’s most popular Java application development framework, announced patches for three vulnerabilities last week. One of them is tracked as CVE-2022-22965, Spring4Shell and SpringShell, and it has been described as a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Spring Framework that can…