The U.S. government on Wednesday issued a blunt recommendation for organizations running VMWare Horizon servers: Initiate threat-hunting activities to find and expel Iranian APT actors that used the Log4j crisis to slip undetected into corporate networks.
Akeyless Raises $65 Million for Secrets Management Tech
Israeli early-stage startup Akeyless has banked a whopping $65 million in venture capital funding to build technology to help businesses manage credentials, certificates, keys and other secrets flowing through multi-cloud environments.
Bishop Fox Adds $46 Million to Series B Funding Round
Continuous attack surface management pioneer Bishop Fox continues to attract the attention of investors with the banking of another $46 million in growth funding led by WestCap.
Gaping Authentication Bypass Holes in VMWare Workspace One
Virtualization technology giant VMware joined the Patch Tuesday train this week to deliver urgent security patches to its VMWare Workspace One product.
Microsoft Scrambles to Thwart New Zero-Day Attacks
The zero-day attacks against Microsoft’s software products are showing no signs of slowing down.
Microsoft: China Flaw Disclosure Law Part of Zero-Day Exploit Surge
The world’s largest software maker is warning that China-based nation state threat actors are taking advantage of a one-year-old law to “stockpile” zero-days for use in sustained malware attacks.
CISA Urges Organizations to Implement Phishing-Resistant MFA
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published guidance on how organizations can protect against phishing and other threats by implementing phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) and number matching in MFA applications.
Bearer, Notebook Labs, Protexxa Raise Millions in Seed Funding
Bearer, Notebook Labs, and Protexxa, three cybersecurity startups dealing with data security, web3 identity, and enterprise cyber hygiene, respectively, have announced raising a combined total of over $10 million in seed funding.
Apple Fixes Exploited Zero-Day With iOS 16.1 Patch
Apple on Monday shipped a major iOS update with fixes at least 20 documented security defects, including a kernel flaw that’s already being actively exploited in the wild.
New PowerShell Backdoor Poses as Part of Windows Update Process
Cybersecurity firm SafeBreach has issued a warning about a new PowerShell backdoor that disguises itself as part of the Windows update process to remain fully undetected.












