Safeguarding Your Business: Ensuring the Security of Your Technology Tools

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, technology plays a pivotal role in driving business growth and success. From streamlined operations to enhanced customer experiences, the right technology tools can truly make a difference. However, with innovation comes responsibility – the responsibility to ensure that these tools are secure and shielded from potential threats. As businesses…

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German government advises against using Kaspersky antivirus

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, is warning companies against using Kaspersky antivirus products due to threats made by Russia against the EU, NATO, and Germany. Kaspersky is a Moscow-based cybersecurity and antivirus provider founded in 1997, that has a long history of success, but also controversy over the company’s possible relationship with the Russian…

Linux version of AvosLocker ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers

AvosLocker is the latest ransomware gang that has added support for encrypting Linux systems to its recent malware variants, specifically targeting VMware ESXi virtual machines. While we couldn’t find what targets were attacked using this AvosLocker ransomware Linux variant, BleepingComputer knows of at least one victim that got hit with a $1 million ransom demand.

Log4j software bug: CISA issues emergency directive to federal agencies

Casual computer users have probably never heard of this logging software, but it’s used across the entire internet. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive on Friday that ordered federal civilian executive branch agencies to address a major security flaw in widely used logging software that could be exploited by cybercriminals.

New SSDs Have Built-in Protection Against Ransomware, Data Theft

Cigent and Phison make self-defending SSDs available to broader audiences. Phison and Cigent introduced a co-developed SSD platform that protects against ransomware and data theft with mechanisms built directly into the SSD’s firmware. The drives even automatically encrypt and hide data from prying eyes in the event of an attack. These ‘self-defending’ drives will be…

New Windows Trojan Steals Browser Credentials, Outlook Files

The newly discovered Python-based malware family targets the Outlook processes, and browser credentials, of Microsoft Windows victims. Researchers have discovered a new information-stealing trojan, which targets Microsoft Windows systems with an onslaught of data-exfiltration capabilities– from collecting browser credentials to targeting Outlook files. The trojan, called PyMicropsia (due to it being built with Python) has…