The Sponsors are acquiring the business from previous investors Paladin Capital Group, Grotech Ventures, and other shareholders, and the acquisition follows Goldman Sachs’ and ClearSky’s initial investment in the Company earlier this year.
The local privilege-escalation bug in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (CVE-2020-0986) exists in the Print Spooler API. It could allow a local attacker to elevate privileges and execute code in the context of the current user.
The discovery of the breach comes after a string of cyberattacks targeted companies in Israel. Earlier this month, sensitive data of Israeli citizens was leaked and sold after the Shirbit insurance company was targeted in a ransomware attack.
Sangoma disclosed a data breach after files were stolen during a recent Conti ransomware attack and published online. The Conti ransomware gang published over 26 GB of data on their ransomware data leak site.
Hackers affiliated with the Russian government have reportedly accessed emails from at least one company in the private sector and accessed Microsoft cloud customers’ information through a third party.
Internet domain company GoDaddy used a holiday bonus notification to test employees on email phishing scams, after workers had already been told they would not receive a bonus this year.
Microsoft identified a reseller’s Microsoft Azure account used for managing CrowdStrike’s Microsoft Office licenses making abnormal calls to Microsoft cloud APIs during a 17-hour period several months ago.
The vulnerability allows hackers to mount so-called “cross-layer” attacks against the Linux kernel and cause further damage by exploiting a weakness in its pseudo-random number generator (PRNG).
Sabre Corp. will make a $2.4 million payout and shore up its cybersecurity policies under an agreement with 27 state attorneys general who investigated a breach of its hotel-booking technology.
HelpSystems, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software company, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired cloud-based data protection solution provider Vera for an undisclosed amount.