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How to Manage DDoS Contacts in the LevelBlue Portal | Add, Edit & Notify Admins

Learn how to add and manage contacts in the LevelBlue DDoS Defense Portal, including how to ensure the right users receive DDoS mitigation alerts and notifications. This step-by-step guide walks company administrators through: Accessing the DDoS Defense Portal Adding contacts with Business Direct IDs Enabling email alerts for DDoS mitigation events Managing contact updates to keep your incident response team informed.

Sophisticated NPM Attack Leveraging Unicode Steganography and Google Calendar C2

Our security monitoring systems recently flagged a suspicious npm package, os-info-checker-es6, which represents a sophisticated and evolving threat within the npm ecosystem. What initially appeared as a simple OS information utility quickly unraveled into a sophisticated multi-stage malware attack. This campaign employs clever Unicode-based steganography to hide its initial malicious code and utilizes a Google Calendar event short link as a dynamic dropper for its final payload.

The Forgotten Threat: How Supply Chain Attacks Are Targeting Small Businesses

When people hear "supply chain attack," their minds often go to headline-grabbing breaches. But while analysts, CISOs, and journalists dissect those incidents, a more tactical and persistent wave of attacks has been unfolding in parallel; one that's laser-focused on small businesses as the point of entry. This isn't collateral damage. It's by design.

Ransomware Response Plan: What Steps Schools and Libraries Should Take After an Attack

In Part 1 of this blog series The Ransomware Threat: Preparing Schools and Libraries for Ransomware Attacks, we discussed creating a pre-incident plan that includes a backup process, asset management, identity and access management, risk-based vulnerability management, and security awareness training to minimize the risk of ransomware attacks.

One Click Is All It Takes: The Danger of CSRF Attacks

CSRF attack or Cross-site request forgery is a very dangerous and stealthy web security vulnerability that exploits trust from a user's browser for a web application. A successful CSRF attack deceives an authenticated user into performing some operations without his consent-like account modification or payment or financial transaction against his will. Most alarming in such cases is that CSRF attacks usually remain unknown for end-users that make defending against them difficult.

Actions to Take Following the M&S Cyber Attack

In light of the recent disclosure by Marks & Spencer (M&S) regarding a cyber attack that resulted in the theft of customer data, we strongly recommend that if you are affected you take immediate and proactive steps to protect your digital identity and reduce the risk of further compromise.

How to Protect Your Business from Scattered Spider's Latest Attack Methods

Mandiant warns that the Scattered Spider cybercriminal group is using “brazen” social engineering attacks to target large enterprise organizations in a wide range of sectors. Specifically, the group targets “organizations with large help desk and outsourced IT functions which are susceptible to their social engineering tactics.” The threat actors impersonate employees and attempt to trick IT workers into granting them access. The group also poses as IT workers to target employees.

Risks of Using Public Wi-Fi for Crypto Transactions

As cryptocurrency adoption continues to rise, the ease of managing assets through mobile wallets and trading platforms has brought a new layer of convenience. However, this accessibility can also lead to overlooked security risks, especially when users rely on public Wi-Fi networks for transactions. Airports, coffee shops, hotels, and public transportation hubs may offer free internet access, but these networks present significant vulnerabilities that can expose sensitive information.

A Subtle Form of Siege: DDoS Smokescreens as a Cover for Quiet Data Breaches

DDoS attacks have long been dismissed as blunt instruments, favored by script kiddies and hacktivists for their ability to overwhelm and disrupt. But in today's fragmented, hybrid-cloud environments, they've evolved into something far more cunning: a smokescreen. What looks like digital vandalism may actually be a coordinated diversion, engineered to distract defenders from deeper breaches in progress.