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Canadian authorities arrested alleged Snowflake hacker

Security Affairs

. “Through the course of our incident response engagements and threat intelligence collections, Mandiant has identified a threat campaign targeting Snowflake customer database instances with the intent of data theft and extortion. Mandiant reported that many stolen credentials dated back to 2020.

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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. An extension of the celebration for Data Protection Day in Europe, Data Privacy Day functions as the signature event of the National Cyber Security Centre’s ongoing education and awareness efforts surrounding online privacy.

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McAfee a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ Unstructured Data Security Platforms

McAfee

McAfee anticipated and responded to this trend, solving all these challenges through the launch of our MVISION Unified Cloud Edge solution in 2020. Because of the unified approach and our extensive data protection heritage, we are delighted to be named a Leader in The Forrester Wave : Unstructured Data Security Platforms, Q2 2021.

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Researcher’s audacious hack demonstrates new type of supply-chain attack

Malwarebytes

Instead of responding with an A record, the attacker’s name server will respond with a CNAME, MX or TXT record, which allows a large amount of unstructured data to be sent between attacker and victim. During the exfiltration phase, the client makes a DNS resolution request to an external DNS server address. Version confusion.

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SentinelOne forks over $155 million for log management company

SC Magazine

SentinelOne claims the technology will allow it to eliminate most data schema requirements and offer an XDR platform that can ingest logs and other unstructured data in real time from virtually any source or database, something the company is keen to incorporate into its extended detection and response platform.

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Predictions for 2023 API Security

CyberSecurity Insiders

Hackers have identified APIs as the Achilles heel in organizations’ cybersecurity posture and are using them to steal data, commit fraud, and create havoc in the marketplace, among other aims. More than half of all data thefts were traced to unsecured APIs as of 2020, according to Gartner – and the problem is only getting worse.

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ComplyAdvantage Releases 2022 State Of Financial Crime Report

CyberSecurity Insiders

80% of firms said they filed more suspicious activity reports (SARs) in 2021, compared to 70% who said the same in 2020. Almost a third of respondents (31%) said they filed 10–20% more SARs in 2021 compared to 2020.