Mitiga in the News

Mitiga researchers discovered hundreds of databases were exposed and leaking PII monthly through a publicly exposed Amazon cloud service that bad actors could then exploit.

CRN named Mitiga in its list of “The 10 Hottest Cloud Security Startup Companies of 2022.”

Mitiga Co-Founder and CTO Ofer Maor talks with VentureBeat about the potential PII leakage issues associated with publicly sharing an Amazon RDS snapshot.

A recent Mitiga Research Team investigation found the well-regarded Amazon Relational Database Service is leaking PII via exposed RDS Snapshots.

As people and enterprises continue to play catch-up with cybercriminals, passwords are no longer enough to keep online accounts protected. Our CTO and Co-Founder Ofer Maor recently discussed this topic with Christopher Mims of the The Wall Street Journal about the likelihood – and implications – of a passwordless future.

Persistent social engineering--pestering, really, that softened employees up for a bogus call from "IT"--appears to have gained a hacker "deep access" to Uber's systems.

News broke overnight that Uber has been hacked and its internal systems breached. A hacker gained access to its vulnerability reports and shared screenshots of the company's internal systems, email dashboard and Slack server.

Information security products, services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. Investors recognize the potential too, as funding for cybersecurity ventures more than doubled from previous years to almost $22 billion in 2021.

As we have witnessed, more attacks have moved onto the cloud, so it was only a matter of time before ransomware attacks did, too. Let's look at two scenarios where attackers leveraged ransomware to gain profits, and how unique cloud capabilities helped victims avoid paying the ransom.