NEW on DarkSide Ransomware from
@SophosLabs
Take a look into a defender’s view inside a DarkSide ransomware attack, whose affiliate is responsible for the recent ransomware intrusion of major US gasoline pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline.
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NEW on
#Log4Shell
: No mass abuse, but no respite, what happened?
Sophos principal research scientist
@chetwisniewski
reviews the scanning and attack detections for Log4Shell to see what's really going on...
Read the full article here:
NEW: Countermeasures and observability key to defending against attackers trying to buy security products
The leak of
#Conti
#ransomware
's internal chat logs revealed the attackers tried to buy security software so they could figure out how to bypass it and avoid detection… 1/7
For the duration of the COVID-19 global health concern, all Sophos customers can protect their employees' personal PCs and Macs for free with our Sophos Home Commercial Edition program. Read more below on how to get started.
We're here to answer any questions.
Over the weekend, we sent out this tweet with the following outdated information from an old article. We apologize for the misinformation.
Here's what you *should* know:
Just because sites have HTTPS cert doesn't mean they are legit. Also, the padlock is going away very soon.
⚠️ The bug, now officially denoted CVE-2021-44248, involves sending a request to a vulnerable server in which you include some data – for example, an HTTP header – that you expect (or know) the server will write to its logfile.
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Ransomware Adversary Mishap
#1
The Avaddon ransomware attackers victim asked them to leak their stolen data because they were having trouble restoring some files. The attackers carried on making the standard threat to publish the data if the victim didn’t cooperate...
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Congratulations to our team for winning the Security Vendor of the Year award at the UK CRN Awards! Well done, and thank you for all of your hard work!
#CRNAwards
💪🎉
It's here... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sophos XG Firewall v18 is now available, sporting the all-new Xstream Architecture delivering extreme new levels of visibility, protection and performance.
See more on XG Firewall v18 here:
🛑 Sophos blocked 34 out of 35 exploits tested, while the next highest score was 22 out of 35. In fact, most vendors weren’t even able to stop half of the exploits that Sophos was able to stop.
WE WON! 🏆 Best Anti-Ransomware Solution (for Sophos Intercept X) 💪
Huge thanks to our wonderful staff for helping us be our very best. See all the winners here:
The world’s most comprehensive endpoint protection has arrived. Signatureless exploit prevention, deep learning malware detection, and the most advanced ransomware protection yet – all in Sophos Intercept X.
Earlier this week,
@Microsoft
revealed a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader. So we put an *older* version of Sophos Intercept X to the test: Could it stop this new exploit even after not being updated for 9+ months? Here are the results...
🥇 The results are in: Sophos ranks
#1
in exploit protection!
Sophos blocked 34 out of 35 exploits tested, while the next highest score was 22 out of 35. In fact, most vendors weren’t even able to stop half of the exploits that Sophos was able to stop 👉
We're excited to announce plans to provide Sophos Intercept X endpoint protection for 5G PCs powered by
@Qualcomm
Snapdragon compute platforms from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
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Today we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Sophos Managed Detection and Response (
#MDR
) service, which now includes the ability to detect and remediate threats across environments with multi-vendor security technology. 1/7
We are live, and Rachel Tobac, Social Engineer & Ethical Hacker is breaking it down granularly, how to beat an hacker everytime! Join the session titled "Live Hacking Demo: Hacking the Human" as
@Sophos
shows us
#sophosevolve
cybersecurity conference.
Join us and our guest industry experts to learn how you can use the latest innovations in protection and prevention to stay one step ahead of the hackers. 🧠
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NEW 🚨
Sophos principal research scientist
@chetwisniewski
reviews the history of known or suspected Russian state activities in the cyber realm to assess what types of activities to expect and how organizations can be prepared.
Read more:
For the 11th time in the last 11 reports, Sophos has been named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms.
Read more and see the full report here:
Welcome to the Sophos family, Capsule8!
Today, we're excited to share the acquisition of Capsule8, a pioneer and market leader of runtime visibility, detection and response for Linux production servers and containers covering on-premise and cloud workloads.
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We're proud to be partnering with
@Qualcomm
to secure the connected world of tomorrow.
If you aren't doing so yet, tune into the
#QualcommWatchParty
#IFA20
keynote happening right now!
Looking for the perfect present for your pup? 🐶🎁
We're randomly choosing a few good doggos to send our *new* WILL PROTECT FOR TREATS dog bandana to!
Reply to this post or tag us in a picture of your pup and use
#DogsOfSophos
to be considered!
“Sophos is actively investigating the attack on Kaseya, which we see as a supply chain distribution attack. The adversaries are using MSPs as their distribution method to hit as many businesses as possible, regardless of size or industry type..."
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🤗 For the third time, Sophos has been named a “leader” in the 2018 Forrester Wave for Endpoint Security Suites. Sophos has scored a perfect “5 out of 5” for malware prevention, exploit prevention, prevention efficacy, user experience, and admin experience
Today we're excited to share that Sophos has acquired SOC.OS, an innovator of a cloud-based security alert investigation and triage automation solution.
@SOCOS_Cyber
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🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 We’re very pleased to announce that for the 7th consecutive year, Gartner has named Sophos a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls) for 2018.
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 For the 7th consecutive year, Gartner has named Sophos a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management (SMB Multifunction Firewalls) for 2018.
Active Ransomware Attack on Kaseya Customers ⚠️
At this time Sophos is aware of an active industry-wide supply chain attack using Kaseya to deploy ransomware.
We will add updates here with more information as it becomes available. ⬇️
We're excited to announce our acquisition of
@rooksecurity
, a pioneer and leader in MDR, and to welcome Rook founder and CEO J.J. Thompson, and the rest of his team, to Sophos.
Sophos customers and partners, here's a collection of the latest resources covering what you need to know about the critical zero-day code-execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), aka the
#Log4Shell
vulnerability, that has been found in the Apache Log4j Java tool...
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📢 Intercept X for Server is here. Protect the critical applications and data at the core of your organization, whether that data is on physical servers, virtual servers, or in the cloud.
Learn more:
Honestly, our guest speaker line up is 🔥🔥🔥
👉 Don't miss this opportunity to hear from these industry experts to learn more about how to secure your business simply and effectively.
@RachelTobac
@k3r3n3
@BRIGHTZEED
Learn more and RSVP:
NEW 🔥🔥🔥
Introducing... Sophos Firewall and the new XGS Series hardware.
Scale-up protection for today’s highly diverse, distributed, and encrypted networks without throttling network performance.
Learn more: