Since June 2021, a relatively new ransomware group called Sabbath has been targeting critical infrastructure in the United States and Canada, including education, health and natural resources.
Hardware Security Firm Axiado Banks $25M Investment
Axiado Corp, a hardware security firm based in San Jose, Calif., has banked $25 million in what is being described as an “oversubscribed” Series B funding round.
Marine Services Provider Swire Pacific Offshore Discloses Data Breach
Singapore-based marine services provider Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) disclosed a cybersecurity incident that resulted in the loss of commercial and personal data.
In an announcement published over the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the company revealed that a third-party was able to access some of its systems without authorization.
Severe Code Execution Vulnerabilities Affect OpenVPN-Based Applications
Security researchers at Claroty have raised the alarm for a series of severe code execution vulnerabilities affecting virtual private network (VPN) solutions relying on OpenVPN.
GoDaddy Breach Exposes 1.2 Million Managed WordPress Customer Accounts
Domain registrar and web hosting giant GoDaddy has been hacked and customer data for some 1.2 million WordPress users were exposed to the attacker for more than three months.
WhatsApp Pushes Privacy Update to Comply With Irish Ruling
WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging that information for European users, after Irish regulators slapped the chat service with a record fine for breaching strict EU data privacy rules.
Supply Chain Security Fears Escalate as Iranian APTs Caught Hitting IT Services Sector
Fears of software supply chain attacks escalated again this week with a new warning from Microsoft that it has caught Iranian threat actors breaking into IT services shops in India and Israel and using that access to hit the real targets.
Cloud Data Protection Startup Laminar Closes $32M Funding Round
Public cloud data protection provider Laminar on Wednesday emerged from stealth with $32 million in Series A funding. To date, the startup has raised $37 million in venture capital investments.
The new investment round was led by Insight Partners. Meron Capital, SentinelOne, and TLV Partners also participated.
Chrome 96 Plugs High-Risk Browser Flaws
Google this week announced the availability of Chrome 96 in the stable channel with fixes for 25 security flaws, including 18 bugs reported by external security researchers.
Mandiant Attributes Ghostwriter APT Attacks to Belarus
The Belarusian government is at least partially responsible for the Ghostwriter disinformation campaign, according to security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team.
