In the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity, it’s critical for businesses to stay ahead of the curve to ensure the safety of their sensitive data and infrastructure. By implementing proactive and continuous testing of the deployed security controls, teams can optimize their preparedness against advanced threats. It’s no surprise, then, that attack surface management has emerged as a potential solution.

On July 6th, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) released an advisory highlighting the newly identifying Truebot malware variants. Truebot (also known as Silence Downloader) is a botnet that has been used by the CL0P ransomware gang to collect and exfiltrate stolen target victim information.

In this version of the Hacker’s Playbook Threat Coverage round-up, we are highlighting newly added coverage for several recently discovered or analyzed ransomware and malware variants, including Cactus ransomware and BlackSuit ransomware, amongst others. SafeBreach customers can select and run these attacks and more from the SafeBreach Hacker’s Playbook™ to ensure coverage against these advanced threats.

As part of our ongoing commitment to conducting original research and maintaining an up-to-date Hacker’s Playbook, the SafeBreach Labs team is dedicated to uncovering new threats. My recent research focused on searching for vulnerabilities and design issues in the API security domain in line with this objective. As a result, we discovered a security vulnerability in the popular HR information system (HRIS) platform called HiBob.

The MOVEIt data breach continues to impact a number of both private and government groups across the US and Europe by exposing confidential data. With breaches like this becoming increasingly common, it can be easy to blame advanced persistent threat (APT) groups and other malicious actors; however, there is a valuable lesson to learn from the MOVEit breach: it is essential to be proactive about these threats, Not doing so may lead to a breach.

On June 14th, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) along with its international cybersecurity partners released an advisory calling out the various indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) being leveraged by the LockBit ransomware operation over the past 3 years.

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On June 7th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory highlighting the recent efforts of threat actors to disseminate CL0P ransomware. The various malicious indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) being leveraged by the threat actors are listed in US-CERT Alert (AA23-158A) – CL0P Ransomware Gang Exploits CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit Vulnerability.

In our first post on using BAS in an operational technology (OT) environment, we provided an overview of a typical converged IT/OT network, the trends that were driving increased cyber risk for industrial asset owners, and a high-level discussion of how BAS can help provide better visibility and protection across the converged environment.

If you’ve met me, you know I’m pretty direct, so I’m going to preface this whole post by saying: yup, this is being written by a marketer. As SafeBreach’s CMO, I know that going to RSA means being crushed by the immense force of vendors trying to stand out and in some cases using gimmicks. We’re certainly a part of that: did anyone get their tarot read at our booth this year?