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A North Korea-linked threat actor hijacked the update mechanism of eScan antivirus to deploy backdoors and cryptocurrency miners.

Irish startup Tines raises $50 million in new venture capital funding as investors make big bets on automation and orchestration startups.

Google patches CVE-2024-4058, a critical Chrome vulnerability for which researchers earned a $16,000 reward. 

Amplifier Security has raised $3.3 million in funding for a solution that includes human-in-the-loop automation and an AI copilot.

Nagomi Security, a company that helps customers prevent threats by leveraging existing security tools, emerged from stealth with $30 million in funding. 

CISA warns organizations of a two-year-old Windows Print Spooler vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

A threat actor tracked as CoralRaider has been using multiple infostealers to harvest credentials from users worldwide.

SD-WAN must be scalable, stable, secure, and fully operational to serve as a strong base for seamless modernization and progression to SASE. 

Hive Systems conducts another study on cracking passwords via brute-force attacks, but it’s no longer targeting MD5.

Bain Capital Ventures and angel investors invest $11 million in automated alerts analysis startup Prophet Security.

Four Iranians are accused of hacking into critical systems at the Departments of Treasury and State and dozens of private US companies.

The judge with Spain’s National Court said there is reason to believe that the new information provided by France can “allow the investigations to advance.”

Mandiant's M-Trends 2024 report shows that defenses are improving – and that may be true. But the reality remains that these same statistics demonstrate that if anything, the attackers still retain the upper hand.

Russia-linked APT28 deploys the GooseEgg post-exploitation tool against numerous US and European organizations.