Enhancements and new offerings for Sophos’ email security portfolio
Following multiple enhancements to Sophos Email – the only MDR-optimized email security solution – Sophos is introducing two new offerings to boost email security posture.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya that resembles the notorious Petya/NotPetya malware, while also incorporating the ability to bypass the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems using a now-patched vulnerability disclosed earlier this year. Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said the samples were uploaded
Connor Jones reports: The state of Nevada is now two days into a cyberattack that has brought down many of its digital services. The Office of Governor Joseph Lombardo announced the attack via social media on Monday, saying that a “network security incident” took hold in the early hours of August 24. Official state websites……
Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands have been indicted in the U.S. for allegedly committing trade secret theft from the search giant and other tech firms and transferring the information to unauthorized locations, including Iran. Samaneh Ghandali, 41, and her husband Mohammadjavad Khosravi (aka Mohammad Khosravi), 40, along with her sister Soroor…
Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. “The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence…
The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) held its seventh plenary meeting of 2025 and reached a decision to sanction Woori Card Co., Ltd. (Woori Card) for data breaches on March 26, 2025. Administrative sanctions by the PIPC are as follows: A penalty for violations (Gwajingguem) of KRW 13.45 billion; A publication order of sanction results…
The ClickFix social engineering tactic as an initial access vector using fake CAPTCHA verifications increased by 517% between the second half of 2024 and the first half of this year, according to data from ESET. “The list of threats that ClickFix attacks lead to is growing by the day, including infostealers, ransomware, remote access trojans,…