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Halloween is around the corner! 🎃 Imagine that you’re with your cloud-native friends, sitting around the fireplace, having some s’mores, and telling spooky stories. Here are our best spooky stories for the cloud community. Enjoy them, and have an awesome Halloween!

Today, information has surpassed oil as the foremost economic driver in the world. Attempts to steal valuable data have risen dramatically in recent years and will only continue to increase. In response, network segmentation has become a valuable tool to protect data and limit the blast radius of any incidents that do occur.

This blog post started as a seasonal message from our Newsletter. We’ve expanded it to be appropriate for the rest of the year. With more employees changing jobs in 2021 than ever before, there are likely to be a few skeletons in the closet.

Security researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab have identified a new rooting malware distributed on Google Play and prominent third-party stores such as the Amazon Appstore and the Samsung Galaxy Store. We named the malware “AbstractEmu” after its use of code abstraction and anti-emulation checks to avoid running while under analysis. A total of 19 related applications were uncovered, seven of which contain rooting functionality, including one on Play that had more than 10,000 downloads.

The FBI has warned that over 30 US-based companies had been hit by the Ranzy Locker ransomware by July this year, in a flash alert to other organisations who may be at risk. According to the alert, issued with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), most of the victims were compromised after brute force credential attacks targeting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to gain access to targets’ networks.

From our beginnings as childhood friends to coming up together in the tech industry, Isaac and I would catch up on our adventures as professionals working in Silicon Valley: him in the VC world, and me as an engineer at Uber Eats. We’re both very interested in entrepreneurship, so we would always come back to discussing various business ideas, including a topic we’d both become intrigued with — the existing challenges enterprises faced with cloud data security.

Johannes Loeffler recently joined Devo as chief customer officer. He and his worldwide team are responsible for accelerating Devo’s efforts to provide customers with a seamless and superior customer experience. I joined Devo because I saw an amazing company with huge potential that is disrupting the logging and SIEM market. Devo’s solutions and services provide incredible value to our customers. And our customers are loyal to us, which is something money can’t buy.