Microsoft: 8 trillion daily signals power our cybersecurity services
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Microsoft s security services grew by $10 billion in 2020, as more companies began utilizing their cloud-based security services.
Microsoft released the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021 earnings this week and beat consensus estimates by 7.36%. While most of this growth is attributed to Azure and Xbox, Microsoft s new blog post shows that security services are becoming a larger part of their revenue stream.
According to Vasu Jakkal, CVP of Security, Compliance and Identity, Microsoft security offerings have generated $10 billion in revenue over the past 12 months and have realized a 40% year-over-year growth. Yesterday, Satya shared an important milestone for our security business: $10 billion in revenue in the past 12 months representing more than 40 percent year-over-year growth. A number inclusive of our security, compliance, identity and management businesses, and a testament to the
Pan-Asian retail giant Dairy Farm suffers REvil ransomware attack
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Massive pan-Asian retail chain operator Dairy Farm Group was attacked this month by the REvil ransomware operation. The attackers claim to have demanded a $30 million ransom.
The Dairy Farm Group operates over 10,000 outlets and has 230,000 employees throughout Asia. In 2019, the Dairy Farm Group s total annual sales exceeded $27 billion.
The group operates numerous grocery, convenience store, health and beauty, home furnishing, and restaurant brands in Asian markets, including Wellcome, Giant, Cold Storage, Hero, 7-Eleven, Rose Pharmacy, GNC, Mannings, Ikea, Maxims, and more.
REvil ransomware attack on Dairy Farm
This week, BleepingComputer was contacted by a threat actor who stated that the REvil ransomware group had compromised Dairy Farm Group s network and encrypted devices around January 14th, 2021.
Beware of this active UK NHS COVID-19 vaccination phishing attack
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A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UK s National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Today, numerous Twitter users began reporting that they received this phishing email, with some being in the right age group to be eligible and thus falling for the scam.
There are multiple variants of the phishing emails, but they all claim to be from the NHS at noreply@nhs.gov.uk (the real NHS domain is nhs.uk) and use mail subject similar to IMPORTANT - Public Health Message| Decide whether if you want to be vaccinated.
Hackers hitting thousands of organizations worldwide in a massive phishing campaign forgot to protect their loot and let Google the stolen passwords for public searches.
Malwarebytes says SolarWinds hackers accessed its internal emails
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Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes today confirmed that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attack were able to gain access to some company emails. While Malwarebytes does not use SolarWinds, we, like many other companies were recently targeted by the same threat actor, Malwarebytes CEO and co-founder Marcin Kleczynski said. We can confirm the existence of another intrusion vector that works by abusing applications with privileged access to Microsoft Office 365 and Azure environments. After an extensive investigation, we determined the attacker only gained access to a limited subset of internal company emails.