Johnson Controls Ransomware Attack Could Impact DHS
Sensitive Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information might have been compromised in a recent ransomware attack aimed at government contractor Johnson Controls International. A multinational…
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Unpatched Exim Vulnerabilities Expose Many Mail Servers to Attacks
The existence of several unpatched vulnerabilities impacting Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) installations was disclosed last week, more than one year after they were initially…
CISA Kicks Off Cybersecurity Awareness Month With New Program
To celebrate the 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month, CISA has launched a new program, meant to promote four critical actions that businesses and individuals can take…
Recently Patched TeamCity Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Servers
In-the-wild exploitation of a critical vulnerability in JetBrains’ TeamCity continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) server started just days after the availability of a patch…
Silverfort Open Sources Lateral Movement Detection Tool
Identity protection provider Silverfort has announced the open source release of a lateral movement detection tool. Called LATMA (Lateral Movement Analyzer), the tool was designed…
Bankrupt IronNet Shuts Down Operations
The lights have flickered shut at IronNet, the once-promising network security company founded by former NSA director General Keith Alexander. Bankrupt and out of financing…
NIST Publishes Final Version of 800-82r3 OT Security Guide
NIST announced on Thursday that it has published the final version of its latest guide to operational technology (OT) security. NIST published the first draft…
AWS Using MadPot Decoy System to Disrupt APTs, Botnets
Cloud computing giant AWS says an internal threat intel decoy system called MadPot has been used successfully to trap malicious activity, including nation state-backed APTs…
In Other News: RSA Encryption Attack, Meta AI Privacy, ShinyHunters Hacker Guilty Plea
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…
Generative AI Startup Nexusflow Raises $10.6 Million
California startup Nexusflow on Thursday announced that it has raised $10.6 million in seed funding to work on technology to help organizations improve security through…
Researchers Extract Sounds From Still Images on Smartphone Cameras
A group of academic researchers has devised a technique to extract sounds from still images captured using smartphone cameras with rolling shutter and movable lens…
National Security Agency is Starting an Artificial Intelligence Security Center
The National Security Agency is starting an artificial intelligence security center — a crucial mission as AI capabilities are increasingly acquired, developed and integrated into…