Symantec is a cybersecurity brand whose products and research involve malware, endpoint protection, data security, and threat detection.
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Symantec is a long-standing cybersecurity brand associated with endpoint protection, antivirus, data loss prevention (DLP), email and web security, and threat intelligence. Its enterprise security business became part of Broadcom, while its consumer security business was separated and later became part of Gen Digital. As a result, news tagged “Symantec” may concern legacy products, enterprise offerings, or historical company activity rather than a single current organization.
For security practitioners, Symantec-related coverage is most relevant to the protection and management of endpoint and data-control systems. These tools often run with elevated privileges and have broad access to files, traffic, and telemetry, so vulnerabilities, weak policy configuration, or delayed updates can create significant attack paths. Administrators should track product support and ownership changes, validate agent coverage and tamper protection, review telemetry handling for privacy and regulatory requirements, and ensure alerts and DLP events feed tested investigation and response processes.
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New ransomware of choice, same critical targets North Korea’s Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and Carbon Black threat hunters.…
Why run your own evil infrastructure when Big Tech offers robust tools hosted at trusted URLs? Black Hat State-sponsored cyber spies and criminals are increasingly using legitimate cloud services to attack their victims, according to Symantec's threat hunters who have spotted three such operations over recent months, plus new data theft and other malware tools in development by these goons.…
Symantec suggests Black Basta crew beat Microsoft to the patch The Black Basta ransomware gang may have exploited a now-patched Windows privilege escalation bug as a zero-day, according to Symantec's threat hunters.…
First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware's SD-WAN and Symantec's Security Service Edge, by today debuting the "VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.…
Meanwhile Microsoft still hasn't patched the fatal flaw While enterprises are still waiting for Microsoft to issue a fix for the critical "Follina" vulnerability in Windows, yet more malware operators are moving in to exploit it.…
Cyber-espionage gang using multiple variants of its custom backdoor to ensure persistence, Symantec warns A Russian-linked threat group that has almost exclusively targeted Ukraine since it first appeared on the scene in 2014 is deploying multiple variants of its malware payload on systems within the country.…
Crypto-coin theft isn't enough to keep these miscreants busy North Korea's Lazarus cybercrime gang is now breaking into chemical sector companies' networks to spy on them, according to Symantec's threat intel team.…
Symantec team warns ransomware and spying could be next Internet fiends are using a relatively new piece of a malicious code dubbed Verblecon to install cryptominers on infected computers. …
'Daxin' malware creates backdoors and may have been used since 2013 The United States' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), working with security vendor Symantec, has found an extremely sophisticated network attack tool that can invisibly create backdoors, has been plausibly linked to Chinese actors, and may have been in use since 2013.…