The cache of 11.9 million confidential files amounting to 2.94 terabytes of data was leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington, DC.
Orca Security, an Israeli security company offering an agent-less platform for protecting cloud-based assets, secured a $550 million extension to the Series C funding round it raised seven months ago.
A tool used by whisteblowers and the media to securely send information has patched two vulnerabilities that could have impacted the anonymous nature of the file-sharing system.
None of the 41 flaws addressed this month have been reported to be under active exploitation in the wild, so there should be no working exploits for them circulating out there.
Another issue to accept with regards to cybersecurity awareness: remote work will no longer be a perk or an arrangement that moves business processes during a disruption. It will be a norm.
While the Iranian threat actor laid low since May 2020, this changed recently as it likely initiated a ransomware attack on the Israeli university Bar-Ilan utilizing it’s custom Apostle ransomware.
An international coalition of American, French, Ukrainian, and EU law enforcement authorities coordinated on the arrest last week of two individuals and the seizure of millions of dollars in profit.
Nonprofit data protection industry body Data Security Council of India (DSCI) has issued an advisory on a file-encrypting virus that is likely spread via spam emails, phishing, and malicious URLs.
One Identity has acquired OneLogin, an SSO and IAM provider. One Identity is part of Quest Software, which is privately held by PE firm Francisco Partners. Before that, it was a part of Dell.
Dubbed “LANtenna Attack,” the novel technique enables malicious code in air-gapped computers to amass sensitive data and then encode it over radio waves emanating from Ethernet cables.