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Nutanix appoints Rob Tribe as vice president of Systems Engineering in EMEA
Rob Tribe , Vice President , Systems Engineering , EMEA , Nutanix
Nutanix , a provider of private cloud , hybrid and multi-cloud computing solutions , has appointed Rob Tribe as vice president , Systems Engineering , for Europe , Middle East and Africa ( EMEA ) region . Promoted from his previous role as senior director , Systems Engineering , Tribe will play a strategic role in supporting Nutanix ’ s expansion in EMEA , while assuming overall responsibility for the company ’ s growing team of systems engineers in the region .
In his most recent role as senior director of Systems Engineering at Nutanix , Tribe was responsible for all technical resources in the region as they engage with end-users and channel and OEM partners .
Andrew Brinded , Vice President and General Manager EMEA Sales , Nutanix , said : “ As a longstanding Nutanix employee , Rob has been pivotal in the many stages of the company ’ s evolution . He is a talented and respected leader with the technical knowledge , industry relationships and business acumen to help guide the EMEA business to the next level .”
Within this remit , Tribe will oversee the teams that provide pre-sales consulting , technical guidance and assistance to customers and channel partners . With over 25 years ’ experience in enterprise technology , Tribe was one of the first two EMEA Nutanix employees , joining in 2012 .
Kaspersky experts connect SolarWinds attack with Kazuar backdoor
FireEye , Microsoft and SolarWinds recently announced the discovery of a large , sophisticated supply chain attack that deployed a new , previously unknown malware ‘ Sunburst ’ used against SolarWinds ’ Orion IT customers .
Kaspersky ’ s experts found various specific code similarities between Sunburst and known versions of Kazuar backdoors – the type of malware that provides remote access to a victim ’ s machine . The latest findings provide insights that can help the researchers move forward in the investigation of the attack .
While studying the Sunburst backdoor Kaspersky ’ s experts discovered a number of features that overlap with a previously identified Kazuar , a backdoor written using the . NET framework first reported by Palo Alto in 2017 and used in the cyberespionage attacks across the globe . Multiple similarities in code suggest a connection between Kazuar and Sunburst , albeit of undetermined nature .
The overlapped features between Sunburst and Kazuar include the victim UID generation algorithm , the sleeping algorithm and the extensive usage of the FNV-1a hash . According to the experts , these code fragments are not 100 % identical , suggesting Kazuar and Sunburst may be related , though the nature of this relation is still not entirely clear .
After the Sunburst malware was first deployed , in February 2020 , Kazuar continued to evolve and later 2020 variants are even more similar in some respect to Sunburst . p
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