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Sophos MDR Grows Global Customers by 37% in 2024, Setting a Powerful New Standard in Cutting-edge, Expert-driven Cybersecurity Against Today’s Most Advanced Threats

COMPANY NEWS: Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, today announced that its Sophos Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service has reached a major milestone, now protecting more than 26,000 organisations globally, growing its customer base by 37% in 2024. This achievement highlights the increasing demand for Sophos’ proactive, expert-led security solutions, which help organisations of all sizes stay protected 24/7 against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, including the most advanced ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing attacks.

Operational technology (OT) and IoT security company Nozomi Networks has appointed Kevin Isaac as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

COMPANY NEWS: Delinea, a leading provider of solutions that seamlessly extend Privileged Access Management (PAM), today announced the introduction of Privilege Control for Servers on the Delinea Platform, enforcing least privilege principles on critical systems consistently across identities to combat stolen credentials and restrict lateral movement.

Some of the most prolific and active ransomware groups are deliberately switching on remote encryption for their attacks, global cyber security as a service firm Sophos has warned.

COMPANY NEWS: Tenable, the exposure management company, today announced the appointment of Meg O’Leary as chief marketing officer.

Apparently stung by the criticism of both vendors and security practitioners over the lack of logs to analyse a recent breach of its cloud service, Microsoft has backed down to some extent on charging customers for providing access to logging services.

Global security vendor Sophos says it has discovered 133 malicious drivers signed with legitimate digital certificates, with 100 of them being signed by Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher.

A well-known tech personality says the advice from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, to switch off mobiles once a day, may not be all that needs to be done to improve one's chances of avoiding security issues on devices.

Ninety-one percent (91%) of Australian organisations find the execution of some essential security operation tasks, such as threat hunting, challenging, with 71% struggling with identifying the root causes behind an incident, leaving them vulnerable to further malicious activity, according to a new survey.

Unified API protection specialist Cequence Security has appointed Glen Maloney to the role of ANZ country lead.

The first fake CryptoRom apps—Ace Pro and MBM_BitScan—have successfully bypassed Apple’s strict protocols, according to Sophos’ report Fraudulent Trading Apps Sneak into Apple and Goole App Stores.

GUEST OPINION Sophos, a global leader in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, today revealed details of how it tracked down the likely culprit behind more than 20 fake criminal marketplaces designed to con cyberscammers in part three of Sophos’ series, “The Scammers Who Scam Scammers on Cybercrime Forums.”

Ransomware Remains One of the Greatest Cybercrime Threats to Organisations

The cyberthreat landscape has reached a new level of commercialisation and convenience for would-be attackers, with nearly all barriers to entry for committing cybercrime removed through the expansion of cybercrime-as-a-service, according to a new report from one cybersecurity company.

Microsoft's decision to block macros originating from the Internet by default has led to threat actors resorting to disk image and archive-based attacks, the global security firm Sophos claims.

Security vendor Sophos has warned that the BlackCat ransomware gang is using the Brute Ratel penetration testing tool in its attacks.

Cybersecurity firm Sophos has acquired SOC.OS a cloud-based security alert investigation and triage automation solution.

There is a lack of boardroom awareness of cybersecurity, and a broad assumption from executives that their company will never get attacked, despite rising ransomware incidences, impact, and cost, according to the findings of the third edition of Sophos’ survey report, The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan in collaboration with Tech Research Asia.

A serious vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been announced, with the researcher who discovered and reported it saying it "allows overwriting data in arbitrary read-only files. This leads to privilege escalation because unprivileged processes can inject code into root processes".

Security vendor Sophos has appointed Chad Cleevely to the role of APJ channel sales director.