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Geo-political tension is metastasizing in cyberspace. Last week, CISA, the NSA and FBI issued an unprecedented advisory on imminent Russian cyberattack campaigns detailing the modus operandi of these groups. Destructive cyberattack campaigns are being spawned by Russian cyber-militias. Microsoft...

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This piece was authored by Stijn Vanveerdeghem An initial zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), publicly released on 9 December 2021, and known as Log4j or Log4Shell, is actively being targeted in the wild. CVE-2021-44228 was assigned the highest “Critical” severity rating, a maximum risk score of 10. On Tuesday, December 14th, new guidance was issued and a new CVE-2021-45046. Originally scored...

Sleep, it seems, is still considered the most discretionary of our biorhythms. Sleep has become that regular periodic activity that is our bank of “extra time” when the pressure’s on – or we want to grab some time for unwinding...

A zero-day vulnerability in the Apache Software Foundation Log4j component (CVE-2021-44228 & CVE-2021-45046), known as Log4j or Log4Shell, is actively being targeted in the wild. It has been assigned a the highest “Critical” severity rating with a risk score of 10 (the...

Cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, up from $6 trillion in 20211. It’s no surprise then that global spending on cybersecurity products and services is expected to rise to $1.75 trillion from 2021...

This article was co-authored by Stefano Ortolani, Sebastiano Mariani, Jason Zhang, and Giovanni Vigna A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), publicly released on 9 December 2021 and known as Log4j or Log4Shell, is actively being targeted in the wild. CVE-2021-44228 has been...

This article was co-written by Sanara Marsh, Dale McKay and Chad Skipper VMware Security Update on Investigating CVE-2021-44228 Log4Shell Vulnerability A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) publicly released on 9 December 2021, known as Log4j or Log4Shell, is actively being targeted in the wild.  This blog is intended to detail how VMware Security can help secure your environment. For information on product...

VMware has released a new critical security advisory, VMSA-2021-0028, in response to the industry-wide issue regarding the open source Apache Software Foundation log4j Java logging component, which was discovered to have a critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228). Because the log4j component is...

Today, Security Operations Center (SOC) teams are understaffed and overwhelmed by cyberattacks that are increasing in both volume and sophistication. Amid the rapidly evolving threat landscape, security teams are spending too much time monitoring and validating alerts instead of...

Secondary infections now surge in the digital environments of hospitals. Cybercriminals target the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector to infect systems with ransomware, notably Ryuk and Conti, for financial gain. Beginning last fall the Russian ransomware gang “Ryuk” targeted hundreds of...

Summary On September 5th, 2021, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) released a report on a new threat they dubbed TigerRAT. The newly found malware shares similarities with malware previously reported by Kaspersky and Malwarebytes. Kaspersky has previously attributed...

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Ransomware attacks increased by over 200% in 2020, according to in-depth research by VMware. To address the global concern over ransomware, the White House held a virtual counter-ransomware initiative meeting in October with senior officials representing 30 countries. In my...

As we approach the end of 2021, a year where cybersecurity has gone mainstream, we are taking a look at the resilience and industry leadership of our more than 30,000 customers. In our Global Security Insights Report 76% of...