Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

On February 7, 2024, CISA issued an advisory detailing their discoveries concerning state-sponsored cyber actors linked to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Notably, the PRC-affiliated threat actor, Volt Typhoon, is actively engaged in efforts to infiltrate IT networks, with the potential aim of launching cyber attacks on vital U.S. infrastructure in the event of a substantial crisis or conflict with the United States.

On Thursday, February 8th, the Fortinet Product Security Incident Response Team released an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) notifying of an out-of-bound write vulnerability in their SSL VPN tracked as CVE-2024-21762. The vulnerability “may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or command via specially crafted HTTP requests”.

In today's rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, organizations across all industries face an imperative need to safeguard their digital assets. Adherence to standard security frameworks, regulations, and insurance requirements is not just a strategic step towards a robust cybersecurity posture but a matter of compliance. These standards, regulations, and insurance requirements mandate ongoing vulnerability management and patching to mitigate risks and protect sensitive data.

Effective Active Directory (AD) monitoring is a cornerstone for security and compliance. It empowers administrators to spot suspicious activity, including improper changes to AD objects like user accounts and Group Policy objects (GPOs), in time to avoid data breaches or minimize their impact.

DarkGate is a commodity malware with multiple features including the ability to download and execute files to memory, a hidden virtual network computing (HVNC) module, keylogging, information-stealing capabilities, and privilege escalation.

Let's walk through nine of the top secrets management solutions for 2024.

While browsing the internet, you may accidentally install spyware on your phone without even knowing. Android phones are known to be more susceptible to spyware than iPhones; however, anyone who owns a smartphone needs to watch out for spyware – especially if your phone is outdated or jailbroken. Some ways you can tell if spyware is installed is if your phone’s camera and mic turn on randomly, you hear a noise during phone calls, or you see unfamiliar apps and files on your phone.

As organizations move more of their business-critical applications to the cloud, adversaries are shifting their tactics accordingly. And within the cloud, it’s clear that cybercriminals are setting their sights on software applications: In fact, industry data shows 8 out of the top 10 breaches in 2023 were related to applications.

In today's world, data is the lifeblood of every organization. From intellectual property to employee and customer data to competitive intelligence and more — if your data is stolen, it's your reputation, money, and business on the line. But the way we store and interact with data has changed over the years. It's no longer located inside a perimeter, on networks and devices your organization has total control over.

A new report shows massive increases in browser attacks in the second half of 2023, with over 31,000 threats specifically designed to bypass security solution detection. I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about phishing, social engineering, smishing, deepfakes and more – all topics centered around attack techniques designed to interact and fool a user.