Your business is at high risk if you have no security measures. A cyber attack can cause devastating financial damage to your business, including legal liabilities. Cyberattacks can result in lasting adverse repercussions on the reputation of your network security, as clients and customers can lose faith in your business if their personal data gets leaked.

Researchers at SafeBreach Labs have recently discovered several novel attack methods which can circumvent common security controls and execute some jaw-dropping malicious actions including: SafeBreach threat researchers have successfully executed and verified each of these attack methods, however none have been used in the wild at this point.

Seeking very large paydays, Vendor Email Compromise (VEC) threat actors are finding out what works and repurposing their content and processes to increase chances of seeing a massive payout. VEC is a form of Business Email Compromise (BEC) where an email account isn’t just impersonated (e.g., using someone’s name, a lookalike domain, etc.) but actually compromising credentials and taking over an account of someone within an organization.

A recap of Q2 from Cisco Talos’ incident response services provides insight into exactly what kinds of attacks are being seen in the field, and what kinds of attacks you need to be protecting against. While I love covering industry reports here, I also love to see practical experiences from the field summarized into trends. And that’s exactly what we find with Cisco Talos Incident Response’s Incident Response trends Q2 2023 recap.

The Document Object Model (DOM) acts as an interface between HTML and JavaScript, bridging the gap between static content and dynamic interactivity. This function makes the DOM indispensable for modern web developers. However, the DOM has a pitfall — DOM clobbering. DOM clobbering occurs when HTML elements conflict with global JavaScript variables or functions, which can lead to unexpected behavior and a potential security loophole in your web application.

Following research on a notorious cybercrime mastermind known as Neo_Net, Cyberint has unveiled the extent of the threat actor’s activities, who primarily targets Spanish and Chilean banks. The findings indicate that the mastermind’s crimes have now expanded into multiple countries and industries worldwide. Further analysis reveals that Neo_Net has not only focused on targeting Financial Applications through the creation of fake Android applications, but has also expanded its schemes.

Newly-released research reveals the eye-watering costs that the manufacturing sector has suffered in recent years at the hands of ransomware. The analysis, by Comparitech, looked at 478 confirmed ransomware attacks on manufacturing companies between 2018 and July 2023, in an attempt to determine their true cost.

July was one of the hottest months in recent memory, and cybercriminals did their part to keep the heat cranked up for organizations around the globe. As organizations continued sorting through the wreckage of the massive MoveIT incident, new and ongoing threats continued to arrive from every corner. July’s notable breaches include attacks on healthcare providers, emergency services, government agencies, and free speech.

Your business runs on servers. Without your DNS server, your users wouldn’t be able to connect to online resources. Without your proxy servers, your local networks would be visible across the public internet. Without your database servers, your organization wouldn’t be able to execute the queries that enable them to make data-driven decisions. Since servers are critical to business operations, threat actors value them.

The second annual threat report from the Sysdig Threat Research Team (Sysdig TRT) is packed with their findings and analysis of some of the hottest and most important cybersecurity topics this year. Threat actors are really embracing the cloud and are using it to their advantage to evade detection and speed up their attacks.