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VMware announces plans to acquire Carbon Black for $2.1 billion

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Enterprise software giant VMware on Thursday said it would acquire endpoint security company Carbon Black in a move to bolster its security offerings and ability to detect advance cyberthreats. The all-cash transaction will be for $21 a share for a total enterprise value of $2.1 billion. VMware, a roughly 24,000-person company based in Palo Alto, California, sells hypervisors and other virtualizing technologies to corporations and to federal agencies. Carbon Black, which went public last year, uses cloud computing to analyze and defend against threats to endpoints like mobile devices. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger called the acquisition a “huge step forward in security” that will allow his firm to deliver “an enterprise-grade platform to administer and protect workloads.” “The current cybersecurity industry is simply broken and ineffective,” Gelsinger asserted in an investor call touting the acquisition. He made the case that the acquisition of Waltham, Massachusetts-based Carbon Black would give VMware greater visibility […]

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Bay Dynamics Risk Fabric platform now integrates with Carbon Black’s CB Defense

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Bay Dynamics, a leader in cyber risk analytics, announced that the Bay Dynamics Risk Fabric platform now integrates with Carbon Black’s next-generation antivirus (NGAV) + endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution, CB Defense. The integration gives… Continue reading Bay Dynamics Risk Fabric platform now integrates with Carbon Black’s CB Defense→

Quasi-Russian upstart reportedly targeted Ukraine in cyber-espionage campaign

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Government entities in Ukraine, including its military departments, were targeted with a spearphishing email campaign intended to conduct cyber-espionage early this year, according to a new report out Tuesday from FireEye. The malware and infrastructure from the campaign suggests the group behind the attack may have been active as early as 2014, and that it’s linked with the Luhansk People’s Republic, a group that declared independence from Ukraine in 2014 with backing from Russia’s military. This year’s campaign shows the group is becoming increasingly sophisticated with its tactics. For instance, one of the malicious files was disguised as an executable .LNK file, which can leverage legitimate apps, such as Microsoft Windows configuration management framework PowerShell, to download malware. This suggests attackers wanted to go unnoticed, since PowerShell hacks are blended into a trusted process that antivirus software usually doesn’t detect. “It’s really becoming mainstream to a point where a lot […]

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Attackers fighting back against security teams while also targeting supply chains

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According to the world’s leading IR professionals, increasingly sophisticated attacks involving instances of “island hopping,” counter incident response (IR), and lateral movement within a network are quickly becoming the new normal. Carbon Black’s 100… Continue reading Attackers fighting back against security teams while also targeting supply chains→

Photo gallery: RSA Conference 2019 Expo, part four

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RSA Conference 2019 is underway at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Check out our microsite for the conference for all the most important news. Here are a few photos from the Expo floor. Featured vendors include: Tenable, Signal Sciences, VMware, M… Continue reading Photo gallery: RSA Conference 2019 Expo, part four→

88% of UK businesses breached during the last 12 months

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The UK’s cyber threat environment is intensifying. Attacks are growing in volume, and the average number of breaches has increased, according to Carbon Black. Key survey research findings: 88% of UK organizations reported suffering a breach in the last… Continue reading 88% of UK businesses breached during the last 12 months→

Cyberattacks fueled by geopolitical tension are increasing

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Billions of personal records were stolen in 2018, unearthed in breaches that successfully targeted household names in government, technology, healthcare, travel and hospitality. Compounding the problem has been increased geopolitical tension between we… Continue reading Cyberattacks fueled by geopolitical tension are increasing→