Reporting revealed declining ransomware profits in 2022, a new backdoor based on the CIA’s Hive malware is discovered, and a new wave of BackdoorDiplomacy attacks are targeting Iranian government entities.
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If you want to learn how to prevent a DDoS attack in your cloud environment by detecting the early signs of compromise associated with this threat, then this article should explain most of the best practices required to secure your cloud infrastructure. From January through July 2022, Sysdig Threat Research team implemented a global honeynet system that captured numerous breaches through multiple attack vectors.
Security teams know, bug bounty hunters, and ethical hackers know it: Large attack surfaces are hard to manage. In this day and age, if you’re a medium-large organization without a comprehensive External Attack Surface Management (EASM) program in place, there’s a pretty good chance that you have some hosts on the Internet that you’re not aware of. Despite this, the concept of EASM is still new to many.
This week, UK’s Postal Service, Royal Mail has been hit with a Ransomware attack, which put the countries sensitive data at risk. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what ransomware is, how it can affect businesses and individuals, and what we’ve learnt from this huge scale attack. Stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.
This blog post will provide an analysis of the malicious Redline Infostealer payloads which have been taken from a real life malware incident, responded to and triaged by the ThreatSpike SOC team. This analysis will be broken down to demonstrate, describe and explain the various stages of the attack chain.
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In a watering hole attack, threat actors usually have to follow a series of steps. First, they need to research the target and make sure they know the type of website the potential victim frequents. Then, they attempt to infect it with malicious code so that when the victim visits it, the website exploits a vulnerability in the browser or convinces them to download a file that compromises the user device.
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are bad news. And they can affect lots of people, often unknowingly. Chief among the top cybersecurity threats affecting users worldwide, any website with unsafe elements can become vulnerable to XSS attacks — making visitors to that website unwitting cyberattack victims. To secure your website from XSS attacks, you must first know what they are.
