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Yubico, the leading provider of hardware authentication security keys, today announced it has expanded its Asia Pacific (APAC) team by appointing Selina Goh as Regional Sales Director, ASEAN, and Derix Suartyo as Solutions Engineering Lead, ASEAN, to support the strategic growth across the APAC region. Based in Singapore, Goh has over 15 years of experience in...

Unsecured Elasticsearch Data Replaced with Ransom Note Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers has identified indexes of multiple unsecured internet-facing Elasticsearch databases replaced with a ransom note. The note demands a Bitcoin payment in exchange for the data (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Ransom note dropped on exposed Elasticsearch database. (Source: Secureworks) The indexes reside...