The rapid proliferation of cloud technology has empowered organizations to meet complex challenges with innovative solutions. This flexibility, however, is the antithesis of security — each new cloud solution that an organization adopts expands their attack surface.

Maybe it’s the changing of the seasons, the start of a new school year, or just something in the air, but September’s cybersecurity landscape was marked with high-energy hacks that seem to have served as twisted amusements for their perpetrators. This month’s round-up is full of criminals who weren’t content just to collect a ransom or sell some private data. These hackers wanted to scorch the earth and hurt their victims with an extra layer of malice and humiliation.

Mandiant has reported an instance in which a group of North Korean hackers tainted the PuTTY SSH client through a malicious ISO package.

The costs associated with a cyberattack can be significant, especially if a company does not have an Incident Response plan that addresses risk. The one-two punch of a cyberattack can be devastating. There is the breach and then the related mitigation costs. Implementing a comprehensive Incident Response (IR) game plan into a worst-case-scenario should not be a post-breach scramble. And when that IR strategy includes insurance, it also must address a business’s level of cyber risk.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server. This is done by overwhelming the server, service or network being targeted with a flood of internet traffic, ultimately slowing the server down or causing it to crash completely. Think of it as being like a traffic jam, which causes all the cars on a road to slow down or come to a stop.

The market-leading CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, applying a combination of advanced machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and deep analytics across the trillions of security events captured in the CrowdStrike Security Cloud, has identified a new supply chain attack pattern during the installation of a chat based customer engagement platform.

The LogSentinel reactive security operations platform continues to integrate new cyber defense capabilities, source tracking and combat. The system integrates AI, XDR (EDR, NDR, MDR), scouting, surveillance, traceability, protection, response and confrontation capabilities.

In our first post of the series, we looked at ways to detect pass-the-hash attacks, which exploit NTLM authentication within an Active Directory domain. Pass-the-ticket is a related attack that which leverages Kerberos authentication to perform lateral movement. In this post, we will dive into how the pass-the-ticket attack works and what you can do to detect it.

Recent years have witnessed a sharp surge in DDoS attacks, and the cost of attack is also steadily increasing. SMEs spend, on average, $120k per attack. As more and more businesses move to the cloud, it is essential to be aware of the risks associated with DDoS attacks. The cost of DDoS attacks can affect your company’s bottom line as it can shut down its infrastructure, applications, communications, and other vital services.

San Francisco-based dYdX, a widely used decentralized crypto exchange with roughly $1 billion in daily trades, has had its NPM account hacked in a software supply chain attack that was likely aimed at gaining access to the company’s production systems. The company, founded by ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer Antonio Juliano, dYdX has raised a total of $87 million in funding over 4 rounds and is backed by some powerhouse investors, including Paradigm, a16z, and Polychain. Here is what we know.