Category: SecurityWeek

The cyberinsurance industry
06
Nov
2023

Travelers to Acquire Cyberinsurance Firm Corvus for $435 Million

Property and casualty insurance giant Travelers (NYSE: TRV), announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Corvus…

Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Adobe Commerce Software
06
Nov
2023

Palo Alto to Acquire Talon, Intensifying Competition in Cloud Data Security 

Technology powerhouse Palo Alto Networks is officially on a billion-dollar shopping spree in the cloud data security space. One week…

Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Adobe Commerce Software
06
Nov
2023

American Airlines Pilot Union Recovering After Ransomware Attack

The Allied Pilots Association (APA) says it has made progress in restoring its systems after falling victim to a file-encrypting…

Looney Tunables vulnerability exploited
06
Nov
2023

‘Looney Tunables’ Glibc Vulnerability Exploited in Cloud Attacks 

A serious privilege escalation vulnerability patched recently in the GNU C Library (glibc) has been exploited in cloud attacks by…

Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Adobe Commerce Software
06
Nov
2023

US Sanctions Russian National for Helping Ransomware Groups Launder Money

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions against Ekaterina Zhdanova, a…

Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Adobe Commerce Software
06
Nov
2023

Iranian APT Targets Israeli Education, Tech Sectors With New Wipers

Since January 2023, an Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been targeting higher education and technology organizations in Israel…

Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Adobe Commerce Software
06
Nov
2023

Exploitation of Critical Confluence Vulnerability Begins

The first in-the-wild exploitation attempts targeting a recent vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server were observed over…

Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Adobe Commerce Software
06
Nov
2023

A Cyber Breach Delays Poll Worker Training in Mississippi’s Largest County Before the Statewide Vote

Election officials in Mississippi’s most populous county had to scramble to complete required poll worker training after an early September…

Microsoft addresses Cobalt Strike abuse
06
Nov
2023

Microsoft Says Exchange ‘Zero Days’ Disclosed by ZDI Already Patched or Not Urgent

Microsoft says four Exchange vulnerabilities disclosed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) last week have either already been patched…

Cybersecurity News tidbits
03
Nov
2023

In Other News: Airport Taxi Hacking, Post-Quantum Crypto Guidance, Stanford Breach

SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under…

Okta hack
03
Nov
2023

Okta Hack Blamed on Employee Using Personal Google Account on Company Laptop

Okta is blaming the recent hack of its support system on an employee who logged into a personal Google account…

Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Adobe Commerce Software
03
Nov
2023

Mortgage Giant Mr. Cooper Shuts Down Systems Following Cyberattack

Mortgage giant Mr. Cooper on Thursday announced that it has shut down certain systems after falling victim to a cyberattack,…