Kroll’s incident responders have seen threat actor groups becoming increasingly sophisticated and elusive in the tactics, techniques and procedures they employ to steal payment card data. One common method is to “scrape” the Track 1 or Track 2 data stored on the card’s magnetic stripe, which provides the cardholder account and personal information criminals need to make fraudulent “card-not-present” (CNP) transactions.

Your project teams take hundreds, if not thousands of photos every year. And while it’s easy to take the actual photos, it can be a huge pain to download and organize all those images. Think about how most companies operate today. A team member takes a bunch of pictures, goes back to the office or the trailer, downloads the pictures from the camera or mobile device, uploads them to the system, and then organizes and posts them.

In his book Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier wrote, “People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.” That remains as true today as when the book was first published 22 years ago. It’s easy to understand why users often represent the weakest cybersecurity link within an organization.

2022 has been busy in the cyber world. While there were signals in 2021 with the increased in activity in threat actors targeting OT environments with ransomware, the conflict in Ukraine prompted many businesses to press harder in asking more questions about their own resilience with operational technologies (OT) and supply chain infrastructure.

Company IT and security teams are facing cybersecurity challenges that increasingly test their defensive capabilities. Organizations have to protect themselves from a growing number of incidents (one attack every 39 seconds, according to the University of Maryland) and sophisticated threats, many of which have serious consequences.

Today Devo announced Devo SciSec, which brings together a talented team of threat research, advanced data science, and machine learning experts under the leadership of CTO Gunter Ollmann to help our customers preemptively detect and mitigate entire classes of threats. See and hear what Gunter has to say about SciSec in this video. Even before their formal introduction, the SciSec team has been busy delivering value-added capabilities to Devo customers.

CVE-2022-30190, aka Follina, was published by @nao_sec on Twitter on May 27, 2022 — the start of Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. — highlighting once again the need for round-the-clock cybersecurity coverage. Threat hunting in particular is critical in these instances, as it provides organizations with the surge support needed to combat adversaries and thwart their objectives.

The CrowdStrike Content Research team recently analyzed a MacOS targeted browser hijacking campaign that modifies the user’s browsing experience to deliver ads. Research began with a variant that uses a combination of known techniques to deliver, persist and sideload a Chrome extension. Analysis of the fake Chrome installer uncovered the use of more than 40 unique dropper files to install the extension.

In our new threat briefing report, Forescout’s Vedere Labs leverages a list of IP addresses known to be used by Killnet hacktivists during past attacks to study their TTPs when attacking a series of honeypots we control.

When you hear the words “brute force," subtlety is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Indeed, classic brute-force cyber attacks use the most straightforward tactics—trial and error—to gain entry into a protected system. When brute force works, the attack's type, depth, and severity depend on the attacker's goals.