Tenable CEO Amit Yoran Dead at 54
Tenable CEO and cybersecurity industry veteran Amit Yoran has passed away at the age of 54 after a battle with cancer.
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Tenable CEO and cybersecurity industry veteran Amit Yoran has passed away at the age of 54 after a battle with cancer.
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The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins). “The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs that contained embedded malicious links,” Pei Han Liao,…
The threat actor known as Rare Werewolf (formerly Rare Wolf) has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. “A distinctive feature of this threat is that the attackers favor using legitimate third-party software over developing their own malicious binaries,” Kaspersky said. “The malicious functionality…
The China-lined threat actor behind the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Microsoft Exchange servers in January 2021 has shifted its tactics to target the information technology (IT) supply chain as a means to obtain initial access to corporate networks. That’s according to new findings from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the Silk…
A threat activity cluster has been observed targeting fully-patched end-of-life SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances as part of a campaign designed to drop a backdoor called OVERSTEP. The malicious activity, dating back to at least October 2024, has been attributed by the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a group it tracks…
A new Android backdoor that’s embedded deep into the device firmware can silently harvest data and remotely control its behavior, according to new findings from Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity vendor said it discovered the backdoor, dubbed Keenadu, in the firmware of devices associated with various brands, including Alldocube, with the compromise occurring during the firmware…
The West Yorkshire Police provide today’s reminder of the insider threat and the need to terminate access and credentials before you terminate an employee’s employment: A disgruntled IT worker who launched a cyber attack on his employer after he was suspended from work has been jailed. Mohammed Umar Taj began to take revenge on his…