Regardless of the industry, the risks associated with data loss are significant. Financial services, healthcare, government, technology, and many other fields – all rely heavily on sensitive data. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that the number of data compromises in the United States hit a record high of 1,802 in 2022. This emphasizes the alarming increase in data security incidents.

Organizations need to prevent privilege escalation attacks to protect their sensitive data from unauthorized access. To prevent privilege escalation attacks, organizations should implement least privilege access, follow password security best practices, enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), keep software up to date, monitor network traffic and regularly run penetration tests.

Today’s SOC analysts are drowning in myriad notifications. They’re trying to parse what’s real, what matters, and what’s a genuine threat to the organization. This exhausting daily routine is significantly contributing to job dissatisfaction and the high turnover rate in SecOps teams. But there’s a major new innovation that solves it: AI-driven hyperautomation.

I started my career as a Counterintelligence Special Agent in the U.S. Army, quickly learning how to decode the complex signals of security threats. Next, I sharpened my skills in state law enforcement, investigating (and preventing) cybercrime by identifying and mitigating digital threats.

In today's digital age, cybersecurity has become a constant concern for organizations. A thorough understanding of the cyber threat landscape is needed to address these challenges and protect your company's systems and data, as only then can you implement effective protection measures.

On April 14, 2024, Palo Alto Networks (PAN) released hotfixes to address the maximum severity (CVSS: 10) vulnerability, CVE-2024-3400, affecting the GlobalProtect Feature of PAN-OS. An unauthenticated remote threat actor can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall. Volexity identified CVE-2024-3400 as a zero-day vulnerability and found that the threat actor UTA0218 was implanting a custom Python backdoor on firewall devices.

In the first quarter of every year, organizations around the world release reports summing up data breach trends from the previous twelve months. And every year, these reports say broadly the same thing: data breach numbers have gone up again. This year is no different. Or is it?

On Friday April 12, Palo Alto disclosed that some versions of PAN-OS are not only vulnerable to remote code execution, but that the vulnerability has been actively exploited to install backdoors on Palo Alto firewalls. A patch is expected to be available on April 14th. The advisory from Palo Alto is here. Palo Alto has marked this vulnerability as critical and NVD has scored it a 10.0 with CVSSv3. Wallarm currently detects attacks against this vulnerability with no additional configuration required.

In today’s digital age, where cars have evolved into data centers on wheels within the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, ensuring cybersecurity in the automotive industry has become paramount. The emergence of connected cars, a significant subset of IoT, brings with it a host of cybersecurity challenges, prompting regulators to take swift action. One such pivotal step is the establishment of WP.29 standards, revolutionizing automotive cybersecurity.

In the digital world, every document, image, video, or program we create leaves a trail. Understanding the lifecycle of a file, from its creation to deletion, is crucial for various purposes, including data security, data recovery, and digital forensics. This article delves into the journey a file takes within a storage device, explaining its creation, storage, access, and potential deletion phases.