Fortra has pursued acquisitions in the infrastructure protection, data protection, and digital risk and email protection markets to help customers improve security posture. CEO Kate Bolseth said clients told Fortra they had challenges within segments such as security awareness and managed services.
A delay in finalizing enterprise deals and a shorter average contract duration have forced Fortinet to lower its sales forecast going forward. The Silicon Valley-based platform security vendor said average contract length shortened from 29.5 months to 28 months in the fiscal quarter ended June 30.
A Russia-linked hacking group is shifting its online infrastructure likely in response to public disclosures about its activity. Its ability to adapt to public reporting suggests it will persist with "operations for the foreseeable future" and continue to evolve its tactics, Recorded Future warned.
A Russian espionage group attacked multiple organizations to steal credentials using Microsoft Teams chats that appear to originate from technical support. Microsoft on Wednesday attributed the campaign to a threat actor originating in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.
Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein, 35, confessed in U.S. federal court to hacking billions of dollars from virtual currency exchange Bitfinex and laundering stolen funds with his 33-year-old wife, Heather Morgan. Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
New CEO Scott Harrell wants Infoblox to evolve from classic networking DNS management to bringing networking and security together in ways that optimize protection and efficiency. DNS serves as a building block for security since it is universal across large client devices and small mobile phones.
A contractor that provides claims processing and other services says several of its community health plan customers - including 1.7 million members of the Oregon Health Plan - are victims of the zero-day MOVEit vulnerability, which has affected more than 500 organizations worldwide.
ISMG's roundup of digital assets-related cybersecurity incidents includes Kenya, France and Germany's probe into WorldCoin; July security incidents; Curve Finance and LeetSwap theft; the crypto amendment in the NDAA; and India's lack of crypto regulation.
How much of a risk do hacktivists pose? Hacktivism's heyday was arguably a decade ago. While activists do keep using chaotic online attacks to loudly promote their cause, they're tough to distinguish from fake operations run by governments, including Russia and Iran.
Real-time protection against API attacks is nonnegotiable for the protection of any web application or digital service that relies on application programming interfaces. Here are some of the most common types of API attacks and strategies for protecting against them in real time.
A hacking campaign that exploited Ivanti mobile device manager to target the Norwegian government began in April or possibly earlier, say cybersecurity agencies from the U.S. and Norway. Mobile device management systems are "attractive targets for threat actors," the alert warns.
A little-known cloud infrastructure provider called Cloudzy has been facilitating nation-state hackers, commercial spyware operations and ransomware affiliates' attacks by failing to keep a close eye on what its customers are doing, researchers at cybersecurity firm Halcyon warn.
A Tennessee-based cardiac care clinic is notifying more than 170,000 patients and others that hackers may have stolen their sensitive personal and medical information in a cyberattack detected in April. The Karakurt cybercrime group claimed credit for the hack a month later.
Human Factor Security expert Robin Lennon Bylenga advised that in building an internal threat management program, it is imperative to not send mixed messages to the broader workforce. It's wise to conduct an assessment of human risk - not just IT risk, she said.
Synthetic ID fraud has moved beyond business-to-consumers to business-to-business fraud as more bad actors are opening fraudulent commercial accounts at financial institutions, said Dori Buckethal, vice president of risk and fraud solutions at Thomson Reuters.
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