Proofpoint to Acquire Tessian for AI-Powered Email Security Tech
Enterprise security vendor Proofpoint on Monday announced plans to acquire email security specialists Tessian to beef up its ability to spot and block risky user…
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Attackers Can Use Modified Wikipedia Pages to Mount Redirection Attacks on Slack
Security researchers at eSentire are calling attention to a new method that attackers can use to redirect business professionals to malicious websites. Described as the…
Hackers Earn Over $1 Million at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023
The Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition concluded on Friday with two new zero-day exploits, bringing the total demonstrated vulnerabilities to 58. Over…
Whistleblowers: Should CISOs Consider Them a Friend or Foe?
Are whistleblowers traitors to the company, a danger to corporate brand image, and a form of insider threat? Or are they an early warning safety…
Biden Wants to Move Fast on AI Safeguards and Will Sign an Executive Order to Address His Concerns
President Joe Biden on Monday will sign a sweeping executive order to guide the development of artificial intelligence — requiring industry to develop safety and…
F5 Warns of Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in BIG-IP
Security and application delivery solutions provider F5 on Thursday warned customers of a critical-severity vulnerability in its BIG-IP product. Tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS score of…
In Other News: Ex-NSA Employee Spying for Russia, EU Threat Landscape, Cyber Education Funding
SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a…
Advanced ‘StripedFly’ Malware With 1 Million Infections Shows Similarities to NSA Malware
A highly sophisticated piece of malware posing as a cryptocurrency miner has stayed under the radar for five years, infecting more than one million devices,…
UN Chief Appoints 39-Member Panel to Advise on International Governance of Artificial Intelligence
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday announced the appointment of a 39-member global advisory panel to report on international governance of artificial intelligence and its…
Critical Mirth Connect Vulnerability Could Expose Sensitive Healthcare Data
Open source data integration platform Mirth Connect is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability that can be exploited without authentication, cybersecurity firm Horizon3.ai warns.…
CISA, HHS Release Cybersecurity Healthcare Toolkit
The US cybersecurity agency CISA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday released cybersecurity resources for healthcare and public health (HPH)…
Key Learnings from “Big Game” Ransomware Campaigns
A mid-year crypto crime update released in July by Chainalysis found that cryptocurrency related crime was trending downward. The exception was ransomware, which the company…