Cyberattacks are becoming more advanced, and groups like Scattered Spider are leading the way with their sophisticated techniques. This group is notorious for using social engineering methods like SIM swapping, voice phishing, and SMS phishing to trick employees into giving them access to sensitive systems. By pretending to be IT administrators, they bypass traditional security defenses, moving through networks unnoticed and stealing valuable data.

In today’s complex threat landscape, MSPs must safeguard their clients’ endpoints, including laptops, desktops, tablets, and mobile devices, from cyberattacks. Prioritizing endpoint protection is essential to shield clients from the relentless evolution of malware, viruses, ransomware, and other threats.

In December 2024, Arctic Wolf Labs observed a mass exploitation campaign involving Cleo Managed File Transfer (MFT) products for initial access. The execution chain involved an obfuscated PowerShell stager, a Java loader, and ultimately a Java-based backdoor, which we will refer to as Cleopatra. In this article we will provide insight into the execution chain in this campaign, obfuscated malicious payloads deployed, and surrounding threat intelligence context around these activities.

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Organizations face mounting pressure as their data storage needs multiply each year. The challenge lies in managing vast amounts of information that must be preserved but rarely sees active use. Cold data storage offers a smart solution for storing this infrequently accessed data while keeping costs under control. Cold storage systems excel at housing compliance archives, historical records, and backup files, all while maintaining accessibility when these assets are needed.

How many questions does your organization need to answer about your endpoints every day, and how long does it typically take to get the answer? How often do these questions require an operator with great expertise to provide accurate answers? Do the questions feel like they are resulting in fire drills for your teams?

Salt Typhoon is a Chinese-speaking threat actor that the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have tied to a series of attacks that breached and exfiltrated data from several of the world's most prominent telecommunications companies. Trustwave SpiderLabs has created a deep analysis of the threat group Salt Typhoon, detailing the group's history, techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTP), and preferred targets.

While working on Amazon Bedrock APIs and developing detection mechanisms for Sysdig customers, the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) discovered an unusual behavior in the way some of these APIs were logged in CloudTrail. Specifically, failed Bedrock API calls were logged in the same manner as successful calls, without providing any specific error codes. The lack of error information in API responses may hinder detection efforts by generating false positives in CloudTrail logs.

Learn essential strategies for effective compliance management to ensure adherence to regulations and standards while mitigating risks and enhancing security.