The private equity firm said attackers broke into some of its cloud platforms during a five-day period in early July, compromising sensitive personal data.

Christopher Bloor, Defense Director at the SANS Institute

BlackFile’s four affiliate groups are still targeting victims, including medical technology organizations. Several potential victims received new extortion demands last week, according to Google.

Kat Sommer, head of government affairs at NCC Group

Greg Clark, CEO of ExtraHop

Connor Moucka obtained almost $500,000 for playing a key role in one of the most widespread and damaging cyberattack sprees on record.

David Slater, Founder & Chief Architect at Armadin

Todd Beardsley, VP of Security Research at runZero

Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report uncovered a surge of exploited vulnerabilities, and a growing lack of critical defect remediation industrywide.

Anna Pham of Huntress