CISA Warns Organizations of ProxyShell Attacks on Exchange Servers

Microsoft rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for the month of July with fixes for a total of 117 security vulnerabilities, including nine zero-day flaws, of which four are said to be under active attacks in the wild, potentially enabling an adversary to take control of affected systems. Of the 117 issues, 13 are rated Critical,…

The cybersecurity researchers of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd have recently detected a security vulnerability in the image filtering function of WhatsApp, the world’s most famous messaging application that has active users more than 2 billion. The news gets disclosed an hour after knowing that WhatsApp will have to pay 225 million dollars for not…

US intelligence agencies suspect Russia is behind the SolarWinds hack on federal agencies last year. But on Monday, Russia’s head of foreign intelligence suggested the UK and US itself might have been behind it. Sergei Naryshkin didn’t give evidence or explain why the US would hack its own agencies. See more stories on Insider’s business…

Cybersecurity company Lookout, Inc. has announced the acquisition of CipherCloud as it seeks to develop an integrated endpoint-to-cloud security solution. The deal will enable Lookout to secure CipherCloud solutions as part of its product portfolio. This includes solutions that span developing SASE categories, including Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A senior US official said Friday the Biden administration is close to a decision on retaliation for state-sponsored hacking as fears grew over the fallout from the latest of two major cyberattacks. The official said the White House was working closely with the private sector to ramp up cyber defenses following…

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare on Thursday disclosed that it mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack recorded to date.The attack, launched via a Mirai botnet, is said to have targeted an unnamed customer in the financial industry last month. “Within seconds, the botnet bombarded the Cloudflare edge with…