The holiday season brings a shift in how people and businesses operate: Some companies may partially shut down, leaving only a skeleton crew to manage their IT environments, while others head into their busiest time of year. This seasonal change in staffing and business operations, combined with the general holiday distraction, often creates risk and makes organizations more vulnerable to cybercrime.

Cyber risks for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have never been higher. SMBs face a barrage of attacks, including ransomware, malware and variations of phishing/vishing. This is one reason why the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) states “thousands of SMBs have been harmed by ransomware attacks, with small businesses three times more likely to be targeted by cybercriminals than larger companies.”

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CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations has been investigating a series of cyberattacks and strategic web compromise (SWC) operations targeting organizations in the transportation, logistics and technology sectors that occurred in October 2023. Based on a detailed examination of the malicious tooling used in these attacks, along with additional reporting and industry reports, CrowdStrike Intelligence attributes this activity to the IMPERIAL KITTEN adversary.

For many cybersecurity leaders, the most intimidating threat they encounter isn’t an adversary — it’s the daunting prospect of trying to win over key business stakeholders and obtain vital budget.

A federated identity provider is an outside service provider that has been entrusted by an organization as an authority regarding user authentication and identity management. In the context of a service that leverages single sign-on (SSO), when an individual user requests access to the service, the service contacts the identity provider (IdP) to validate the user’s identity.