Sophos Discovers Ransomware Abusing “Sophos” Name

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:20:01 +0000

Attackers will sometimes use the name of security companies in their malware. While performing a regular search on VirusTotal looking for interesting malware and new ransomware variants using our threat hunting rules this week, a Sophos X-Ops analyst discovered a novel ransomware executable that appears to use “Sophos” in the UI of the panel alerting […]

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Apple & Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:55:07 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple customers have their own zero-day woes again this month: On Monday, Apple issued (and then quickly pulled) an emergency update to fix a zero-day vulnerability that is being exploited on MacOS and iOS devices.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2022 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:01:07 +0000

Microsoft has released its final monthly batch of security updates for 2022, fixing more than four dozen security holes in its various Windows operating systems and related software. The most pressing patches include a zero-day vulnerability in a Windows feature that tries to flag malicious files from the Web, a critical bug in PowerShell, and a dangerous flaw in Windows 11 systems that was detailed publicly prior to this week’s Patch Tuesday.

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Conti’s Ransomware Toll on the Healthcare Industry

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:41:08 +0000

Conti — one of the most ruthless and successful Russian ransomware groups — publicly declared during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that it would refrain from targeting healthcare providers. But new information confirms this pledge was always a lie, and that Conti has launched more than 200 attacks against hospitals and other healthcare facilities since first surfacing in 2018 under the name “Ryuk.”

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Sophos presenta Intercept X para móvil con soluciones de seguridad para el sistema operativo de Chrome, Android e iOS

Credit to Author: Sophos Iberia| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:02:21 +0000

Sophos presenta Sophos Intercept X para móvil con nuevas funciones de seguridad para dispositivos con sistema operativo Chrome y una mejor defensa frente a amenazas móviles para los dispositivos Android e iOS. Sophos también ha publicado recientemente la investigación, Fleeceware Apps Persist on the Play Store, que detalla los últimos descubrimientos sobre las aplicaciones conocidas como [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/aZlXGiYyPMs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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SophosLabs Intelix, la nueva plataforma cloud de inteligencia frente a amenazas de Sophos

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 08:58:24 +0000

Sophos (LSE: SOPH), líder global en seguridad de redes y endpoint, ha anunciado la disponibilidad de SophosLabs Intelix, una plataforma cloud de análisis inteligente frente amenazas que ofrece a los desarrolladores la posibilidad de construir aplicaciones más seguras. Con SophosLabs Intelix, los desarrolladores pueden realizar llamadas API a la plataforma para obtener un completo conocimiento [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/eQ7QBHnZ09U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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El 90% de las empresas que ha sufrido un ciberataque contaba con soluciones tradicionales de seguridad

Credit to Author: Sophos Iberia| Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:30:38 +0000

Sophos (LSE: SOPH) líder global en seguridad para protección de redes y endpoints, celebró el pasado 26 de noviembre el Sophos Day 2019 en el Museo Reina Sofía de Madrid, donde se dieron cita casi 500 profesionales del sector de ciberseguridad para conocer cuál es el panorama de ciberamenazas actual y las últimas innovaciones llevadas [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/hyoaeq4aUHA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Sophos muestra cómo atacan a sus víctimas las familias de ransomware más frecuentes y persistentes

Credit to Author: Sophos Iberia| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:55:34 +0000

Sophos (LSE: SOPH) líder global en seguridad para protección de redes y endpoints, ha publicado el informe “How ransomware attacks” que explica cómo actúan los diferentes ataques de ransonware y qué efectos tienen en sus víctimas. Este documento, que complementa el “Informe de Ciberamenazas 2020” publicado por Sophos, presenta un detallado análisis de 11 de [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/b6mphk8384U” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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