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theguardian | August 26, 2020

New Zealand’s stock market has been interrupted by an apparent overseas cyber attack for the second day running. The Wellington-based NZX exchange went offline at 11.24am on Wednesday and although some connectivity was restored for investors, some trading was halted. The NZX said it had experienced “network connectivity issues” and that the NZX main board, NZX debt market and Fonterra shareholders market were placed on halt. However it then announced that those areas would resu...

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CompTIA | October 12, 2021

CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the global information technology (IT) industry, today expanded the CompTIA ISAO (Information Sharing and Analysis Organization) to the United Kingdom to serve as the focal point for dealing with cyber-threats to technology vendors, MSPs, solution providers, integrators, distributors, and business technology consultants. We are in a time of unprecedented and malicious hacking activity, much of which is targeted specifically at t...

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Cybereason | April 23, 2021

Cybereason, the market leader in future-ready attack protection, reported today the discovery of a widespread, global campaign aimed at spreading the stealthy Prometei Botnet by attacking enterprises with a multi-stage attack to harvest computing power to mine bitcoin. To infiltrate networks, the threat actors, who tend to be Russian speakers, are exploiting previously disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities used in the Hafnium attacks. Prometei has a sophisticated infrastruc...

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Cylitic Security | November 15, 2021

Cylitic Security, a cyber security services provider, announced that it has chosen Swimlane, the leader in cloud-scale low-code security automation, to scale up its security operations. Cylitic is pioneering a comprehensive managed security service to help small to medium-sized businesses successfully fight off sophisticated cyberattacks. On average, Fortune 100 companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on dedicated professional cybersecurity analysts...