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Netskope Threat Labs publishes a monthly summary blog post of the top threats we are tracking on the Netskope platform. The purpose of this post is to provide strategic, actionable intelligence on active threats against enterprise users worldwide.

Anonymous Sudan is a rapidly expanding and influential group of hacktivists that identify themselves as Sudanese, motivated by both religious and political beliefs. Since January 2023, they have been carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, allegedly motivated by defending Islam against Western nations. These attacks have disrupted critical infrastructure and various global sectors, including finance and healthcare.

I am excited and humbled to share that Snyk has been named to the prestigious Forbes Cloud 100 list for the fourth consecutive year, coming in at #19. The full list was unveiled this morning. This recognition follows a number of significant company milestones, including being named a leader in both the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing and The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q2 2023 report.

Allegheny County is the second largest county in Pennsylvania, behind Philadelphia County. It is located in Southwest Pennsylvania and has approximately 1.2 million residents. This large county was the recent victim of a data breach, which means many of the county residents could be at risk of being exposed. Learn the details about this potentially disastrous data loss and who should react to the attack to protect themselves from future issues.

So, you want to be a cybersecurity analyst. You’ll be pleased to know it’s a profession with a strong job outlook, thanks to the increasing importance of cybersecurity. With the rise in high-profile data breaches, privacy concerns and rapid technological advancements, there is a greater demand for cybersecurity analysts now than ever.

Spring Security’s newly released versions contain a fix for a broken access control vulnerability – CVE-2023-34034 – which was given a critical NVD severity (CVSS 9.8) and a high severity by Spring’s maintainers.

CurrentWare version 9.0 is here! This update introduces Advanced HTTPS transparent packet filtering technology, allowing for significant enhancements to the tracking and restriction capabilities of the CurrentWare Suite. By upgrading to CurrentWare v9.0 you will have greater protection against the data security risks of cloud storage services, potentially malicious file downloads, network share drives, and more!