
Sophos X-Ops showcases MDR and threat intelligence at Black Hat and DEF CON
Sophos has announced that Sophos X-Ops will lead three presentations at Black Hat and DEF CON, taking place this week in Las Vegas. Speaker presentations from Sophos Managed …

7 fake cryptocurrency investment apps discovered in Google Play, Apple App Store
Sophos released new findings on CryptoRom scams—a subset of pig butchering schemes designed to trick users of dating apps into making fake cryptocurrency investments. Since …

Microsoft patches four exploited zero-days, but lags with fixes for a fifth (CVE-2023-36884)
For July 2023 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has delivered 130 patches; among them are four for vulnerabilites actively exploited by attackers, but no patch for CVE-2023-36884, an …

Refined methodologies of ransomware attacks
Adversaries were able to encrypt data in 76% of the ransomware attacks that were conducted against surveyed organizations, according to Sophos. The survey also shows that when …

Sophos’ MDR service customer base grows 33% in first 6 months since launching new capabilities
At RSA Conference 2023, Sophos announced that its vendor-agnostic Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service has grown its customer base by 33% in the first six months since …

Attackers are logging in instead of breaking in
Cyberattackers leveraged more than 500 unique tools and tactics in 2022, according to Sophos. The data, analyzed from more than 150 Sophos Incident Response (IR) cases, …

Cyberthreats take a toll on IT teams’ work on other projects
93% of organizations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, such as threat hunting, challenging, according to Sophos. IT professionals face challenging …

3CX customers targeted via trojanized desktop app
Suspected state-sponsored threat actors have trojanized the official Windows desktop app of the widely used 3CX softphone solution, a number of cybersecurity companies began …

Apple backports fix for exploited WebKit bug to older iPhones, iPads (CVE-2023-23529)
Apple has released security updates for – pardon the pop-culture reference – everyhing everywhere all at once, and has fixed the WebKit vulnerability …

How ChatGPT is changing the cybersecurity game
The cybersecurity industry can leverage GPT-3 potential as a co-pilot to help defeat attackers, according to Sophos. The latest report details projects developed by Sophos …

Sophos improves cyberthreat defenses with endpoint security advancements
Sophos introduced innovative advancements to its portfolio of endpoint security offerings. New adaptive active adversary protection; Linux malware protection enhancements; …

CISA releases ESXiArgs ransomware recovery script
According to the latest data, the number of ESXiArgs ransomware victims has surpassed 3,800, and CISA has published a recovery script for victim organizations. Fixing the mess …
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