Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

As ransom payments reach an all-time high, it’s time to look at attacks from a data perspective and find the greatest opportunities to stop these attacks. Every quarter, I’ve been covering the Quarterly Ransomware Reports from ransomware response company Coveware. In their latest report covering Q3 of this year, we get a greater sense of what trends their security researchers are seeing from the data: This last one is interesting.

Cloud-native and analytic solutions provider Sumo Logic has announced a cybersecurity incident stemming from a compromised AWS account. Sumo’s clients come from various industries, including airlines and video game franchises. On November 7th, they posted a breach notice to their website; they stopped the attack before the data could be unencrypted.

SysAid on-premises software faces a zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-47246. SysAid recommends that all customers immediately upgrade to version 23.3.36, which has a security patch for the path traversal vulnerability.

With the majority of data breaches now caused by compromised third-party vendors, cybersecurity programs are quickly evolving towards a greater emphasis on Vendor Risk Management. For advice on choosing the best VRM solution for your specific data breach mitigation requirements, read on.

Traditionally Hacktivists were thought of as ideologically motivated threat actors, unaffiliated with nation-states. However recently according the Cyberint research, the lines have blurred. There are now several Hacktivist groups who align with specific nation-states. One example is the KillNet Hacktivist Group. KillNet is a hacktivist group aligned with Russia, who gained significant attention at the onset of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Aikido Security, the developer-first software security app for growing SaaS companies, today announces it has raised €5m in a Seed round co-led by Notion Capital and Connect Ventures; with investment from Inovia Capital Precede Fund I, led by partners Raif Jacobs and former Google CFO Patrick Pichette; as well as an impressive roster of angel investors including Christina Cacioppo, CEO of Vanta.