A recent CNBC report has revealed that many cybersecurity companies saw their stocks rally Wednesday as the “Petya” ransomware program immobilized more than 12,000 computers from companies around the world in order to extort money from their owners, according to numbers from Microsoft.Read More…
SonicWall set the milestone by shipping its three millionth firewall besides surpassing its own financial and operational metrics set across sales, partner engagement and support. “In fewer than eight months, SonicWall has already exceeded the ambitious financial and operational metrics established for the business. We believed in this investment from dayRead More…
Kalle Bjorn, Director, Systems Engineering, Fortinet details the company’s research on the latest romsomware attack, Petya saying that the company is currently tracking this new ransomware variant that is sweeping across the globe and is Read More…
The rapid pace of the new Petya ransomware attack points at another worm that can spread from computer to computer by itself, Mimecast has said. In an advisory, Steven Malone, director of security product management at Mimecast, commented, “Many commentators think WannaCry came from hackers in Russia, perhaps as an experiment thatRead More…
Petya first appeared this morning and has been spreading around the world, mainly infecting businesses and government agencies and departments in the Ukraine and Russia, but there have been increasing reports of businesses in other countries also being compromised, with reports filtering in from the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland andRead More…
A new massive attack allegedly based on Petwrap ransomware, ‘Petya’ which started in Ukraine is now affecting countries across the world. The extent of the attack’s severity and its cause are still unknown. Once again it is a ransomware that is infecting computers worldwide making chaos, and reports have come inRead More…
The WannaCry ransomware is not dead yet and another large scale ransomware attack is making chaos worldwide. The attack is shutting down computers at corporate houses, power supplies, and banks across Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France, UK, India, and Europe and demanding $300 in bitcoins. According to multiple sources, a newRead More…
LogRhythm, announced that it has won the prestigious Gold Award winner in the first ever Gartner’s Peer Insights Customer Choice Awards for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). The Customer Choice Awards are a ranking of vendors by verified end-user professionals, taking into account both the number of end-user reviews,Read More…
