No company is immune to every sophisticated attack. For example, any company might face a takedown by zero-day vulnerabilities or nonstandard, complex tools. To successfully repel an advanced attack and minimize negative consequences, prepare today for the challenges your cybersecurity team could encounter tomorrow. show more ...
Predicting a specific attack is, of course, impossible, so our colleagues decided to study the experiences of other companies, interviewing representatives of a variety of companies for our IT Security Economics 2021 report. What the respondents had in common was they had all suffered complex cyberincidents. Here are the Top 5 concerns the respondents reported: 1.Insufficient infrastructure visibility Logically enough, without full visibility of the infrastructure, threat search and elimination is nearly impossible. Even fairly complex incidents can go unnoticed by cyberdefenders for quite some time. Moreover, reacting without a full understanding of the situation can worsen matters. Countermeasures. When it comes to providing infrastructure visibility, consider Endpoint Detection and Response–class solutions. 2.Lack of coordination Disparate teams leaping into action instead of coordinating first tends to increase damage and complicate investigation. Teams can also unintentionally hinder one another (for example, IS may try to isolate the infected server from the network while IT is fighting to keep it available). Countermeasures. Develop a contingency plan in advance, and appoint someone to be responsible for implementing it. 3.Lack of qualified personnel The market continues to suffer from a shorta ge of infosec experts, so it is hardly surprising that companies cite as a major challenge the lack of properly trained personnel able to identify threats and respond to critical incidents. Countermeasures. If in-house expertise is lacking, bring in outside teams to perform both incident response and continuous monitoring and threat hunting. 4.Failure to identify real threats among multiple signals It’s bad if your security system fails to spot dangerous symptoms in the infrastructure, but not much better if it sees too many. Alerts about real threats can get lost among thousands of diverse incidents, each of which wastes analysts’ attention and other valuable resources. In a complex network, that’s a very real problem. Countermeasures. Use comprehensive cybersecurity framework with built-in technologies that help to prioritize truly critical incidents. 5. Insufficient visibility of malicious events or behavior Cybercriminals are forever coming up with new attack methods, tools, and exploits. Without fresh information about cyberthreats, security solutions cannot respond to the latest attacks or recognize intruders in the corporate network. Countermeasures. Supply your security solutions and SIEM systems (if any) with essential, up-to-date threat intel. The IT Security Economics 2021 report contains a wealth of other useful information such as data on average corporate losses from cyberincidents. You can download the full report here.
Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based startup that automates the security of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, has secured $30 million in Series A funding led by Insight Partners.
The admin of the White House market “mr white” explained that the platform would halt its operations as he had reached his goal in terms of profit. The announcement was posted on the dread forum.
Kaspersky documented a new Chinese-speaking threat actor—GhostEmperor—targeting Microsoft Exchange flaws in high-profile attacks in Southeast Asia. The group evades the Windows Driver Signature Enforcement by using an undocumented loading scheme. Organizations are suggested to implement multi-layered security show more ...
architecture of reliable anti-malware, firewalls, Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems, and Intrusion Prevention Systems.
FormBook has been known for exploiting the CVE- 2017-0199 flaw. Now, it has been discovered abusing a new zero-day vulnerability in Office 365. FormBook developers have also added an additional obfuscation mechanism for the exploit code to provide additional protection. Experts suggest following a proper patch management program and using reliable anti-malware solutions.
Proofpoint unearthed about 20 threat campaigns by the TA544 group that deploys the Ursnif banking trojan against 2,000 organizations in Italy. It targeted login portals of a large number of sites, including UniCredit Group, Agenziabpb, ING, BNL, eBay, PayPal, Banca Sella, CheBanca!, and IBK. In some of these show more ...
campaigns, the threat actor employs geofencing tactics to confirm recipients in targeted geographic regions. Organizations are recommended to stay alert and train employees to spot malicious emails.
The exposed information includes internal logs, full subscriber names, email addresses, device info, URL requests, IP addresses, authentication tokens, and unique reader identifiers.
The U.S. will have to contend with the threat of ransomware daily for at least the next several years, the leader of the country’s premier digital spy agency said Tuesday.
The leak is labeled as “part one,” suggesting there could be more to come. Video Games Chronicle reports that the data may have been obtained as early as this week and Twitch is aware of the breach.
The combined company serves more than 130,000 policyholders, providing cyber and technology insurance along with the proactive risk management clients need to avoid filing insurance claims.
A CISA advisory warned regarding multiple security vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Honeywell Experion PKS and ACE controllers that could enable remote code execution and denial-of-service.
Google is going to automatically enroll 150 million users and two million YouTube creators in to using two-factor authentication for their accounts by the end of the year, it announced on Tuesday.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued a warning notifying patients that medical device maker Medtronic has expanded a recall of remote controllers for certain wireless insulin pumps.
The funding round was led by LG Technology Ventures. Existing investors Hearst Ventures, Intel Capital, and Team8, along with Euclidean Capital and NAventures also contributed.
Nozomi Networks Labs unveiled three vulnerabilities in video recording device software from Axis. Axis has released firmware updates addressing each issue after being notified about the flaws in June.
The DHS partnered with the NIST in releasing guidance organizations should implement now to protect themselves from the looming potential security threats posed by quantum computing.
It has been reported that the voucher applications of around 1,000 eligible individuals were denied because their NINO had already been used to successfully complete an earlier voucher application.
A vulnerability with parental control app Canopy allows attackers to plant JavaScript into the parent portal and gain access to all the features a parent would have with their child's device.
While the researchers believe this group, called MalKamak, is new and distinct from previously documented groups, there is evidence pointing to possible connections to APT39 and Agrius APT.
The cache of 11.9 million confidential files amounting to 2.94 terabytes of data was leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington, DC.
On Tuesday, researchers discovered that REvil had breached Fimmick's databases and claimed to have data from a number of global brands. The firm's website is reportedly down since the incident.
Not long after launching a major supply chain attack in July 2021, the REvil ransomware gang went offline. Before this, REvil was one of the most prolific and high-profile ransomware gangs.
The FBI released a Flash alert on March 16th, warning the public of the PYSA ransomware increasingly targeting education institutions in the US and UK. PYSA is short for “Protect Your System Amigo.”
The patient information exposed by the incident included names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, treatment details, prescription details, and health insurance details.
Brazilian asset manager Patria Investments Ltd has acquired cybersecurity companies Neosecure and Proteus to create the largest information security platform in Latin America, it said on Tuesday.
Different researchers may see similar activity clusters at the same time, but because of their limited visibility, may be unaware that other researchers are going through the same process.
As a result of his actions, the school’s systems could no longer be accessed and remote learning was impacted at a time when pupils were at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Regardless of industry, information security incidents have become more of a targeted threat for businesses, increasing in amount and efficacy, according to the 2021 Data Security Report from GetApp.
Next Level Apparel, a wholesale producer and online retailer of blank apparel, said it “could not confirm that any individual's information was in fact viewed by an unauthorized person”.
Mana Tools was first reported in 2019 by Yoroi researchers who identified it as a fork of the AzoRult 3.2 malware created by a Pakistani actor named Aqib Waseem, better known as Hagga.
These devices range from Software as a Medical Device, such as certain mobile phone applications, to implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers, the federal agency notes.
A new report released by Sift revealed a staggering 307% increase in ATO attacks between April 2019—shortly after many COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were enacted—and June 2021.
During the three months from mid-May to mid-August 2021, Cyren researchers detected a 300% increase in phishing URLs and kits within their own telemetry targeting Chase Bank.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-3741-01 - Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector, the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library. This show more ...
release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.5.1 serves as a replacement for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.5.0, and includes bug fixes, enhancements and component upgrades, which are documented in the Release Notes, linked to in the References. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5104-1 - Lyu discovered that Squid incorrectly handled WCCP protocol data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Squid to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information.
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 proof of concept exploit for a OnePKG file parsing remote code execution vulnerability. Upon decompressing files from .ONEPKG archives (using MS CAB format), a failure to sanitize file paths and file contents allows for arbitrary file planting in arbitrary locations on the OS, including the startup folder.
Google has announced plans to automatically enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security. In addition, the internet giant said it also intends to require 2 million YouTube creators to switch on the setting, which it calls two-step verification (2SV),
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an advisory regarding multiple security vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Honeywell Experion Process Knowledge System C200, C200E, C300, and ACE controllers that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) conditions. "A Control Component Library (CCL) may be modified
Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations' infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dark and successfully evading security solutions. Boston-based cybersecurity company Cybereason dubbed
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