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Popular social media platform Discord has notified users it has suffered a data breach after a support agent’s account at a third party became compromised. A malicious individual then gained unauthorised access to the agent’s support queue, exposing user email addresses, Discord support messages and attachments sent via the ticket system. Discord - which has a user base of over 150 million monthly active users - has deactivated the compromised account and undertaken security checks...

Yesterday, comforte AG released the findings of a survey conducted on over 500 IT Security Specialists and Chief Information Officers across the UK, France and Germany. The research revealed that European IT and security leaders may be dangerously over-confident in their ability to avoid cyberattacks and mitigate the risk of serious data compromise. comforte AG commissioned Censuswide to conduct the interview. The findings reveal that most organisations have suffered a serious cyberattack in the last...

Today, systems management, data protection, and software security company, Quest Software and One Identity, part of the Quest family, announced shared success in the 2023 CRN Partner Program Guide.   CRN® is a brand of The Channel Company; the CRN 5-star Partner Program Designation recognises an elite subset of those vendors participating in the CRN Partner Program Guide who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs. Multiple 5-star ratings in the...

Charming Kitten, the infamous Iranian nation-state group, is actively targeting victims across Europe, U.S., India and Middle East with a new malware dubbed BellaCiao. The malware is the latest in their expansive custom tool kit. BellaCiao was discovered by Bitdefender, who describe the malware as a "personalised dropper" that's capable of delivering malware payloads onto a victim machine based on commands given by a third-party actor-controlled server. Charming Kitten is an Iranian state-sponsored APT group...

Today, Keeper Security announced it has been named an Overall Leader in the 2023 Leadership Compass- Secrets Management report by global information-security analyst firm KuppingerCole. Overall Leaders are identified based on the strength of products, market presence and innovation. KuppingerCole Analysts AG rated Keeper Secrets Manager (KSM) in the categories of security, functionality, deployment, interoperability and usability.  Keeper, as a vendor, was rated on innovation, market position, financial strength and ecosystem. The report recognises Keeper for fusion...

Yesterday, the winners of 11th coveted Global Infosec Awards were announced at the RSA conference in San Francisco. The awards are run by Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), who spent six months searching for over 4,300 companies who manage, create and offer the most respected information security products and services. Of these, CDM named over 400 as winners. The winners of the award were honoured because of their innovations and focus on attempting to stop tomorrow's...

A year ago, Dragos Inc. released the first cybersecurity resource designed to provide industrial asset owners and operators with free OT-specific cybersecurity resources. Dragos OT-CERT (Operational Technology – Cyber Emergence Readiness Team), was designed specifically to help teams within small and mid-sized organisations to help them build their OT cybersecurity programmes, improve their security postures, and reduce OT risk. The product was launched at the 2022 RSA Conference and has grown to include over 900...

As important as it is, cybersecurity awareness training might not seem like the most exciting thing in the world, but when it involves plots to rival your favourite network crime dramas, expertly crafted cinematography, and characters to root for? Naturally, it all feels a little bit different.   Of course, we’re talking about the long-awaited return of KnowBe4’s network-quality video series The Inside Man. Back for its fifth season, the show, created and produced by Twist...

New research released by Specops Software outlines the most common Fortune 500 company names that show up in compromised password data. The Specops research team analysed an 800 million password subset of the larger Breached Password Protection database to obtain these results. Among the top ten, popular household names like Coca-Cola (16,710 appearances), Starbucks (3,800 appearances) and McDonald’s (2,270 times) appear. The most common Fortune 500 company to have been found among passwords in the subset...

Apparently, the team at Ferrari may not have been up to speed with the latest ways to ensure your security is top priority. It was announced on Monday via a statement uploaded to their website that Ferrari was “recently contacted by a threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain client contact details”. Ferrari then went on to say that it “will not be held to ransom” and that the best course of action...