Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

New data illuminates how healthcare leaders can prioritize resilience. Organizations find themselves at the intersection of progress and peril in the rapidly evolving digital healthcare landscape. The latest data underscores that the trade-offs are significant and pose substantial risks to healthcare institutions. One of the foremost obstacles is the disconnect between senior executives and cybersecurity priorities.

The rise of cryptocurrencies has introduced a new frontier for criminals, presenting unique challenges for investigators. Unlike traditional financial transactions, cryptocurrency transactions are pseudonymous, meaning identities are obscured by cryptographic addresses. This, coupled with the decentralized nature of blockchain technology, necessitates specialized techniques and tools for digital forensics in the age of cryptocurrency.

Today's businesses are transforming through integrating IT and OT environments, a shift that's enhancing efficiency and unlocking new operational capabilities. Key functionalities like remote access and telemetry collection are becoming increasingly central in this digitally integrated landscape.

Blockchain technology, renowned for its decentralized and immutable nature, promises enhanced security for various applications. However, like any technology, it is not without vulnerabilities. This in-depth examination explores the security aspects of blockchain, identifies common vulnerabilities, and outlines the measures needed to secure blockchain applications effectively.

Comprehending and effectively addressing cybersecurity threats is paramount to organizational security. As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, how companies respond to cybersecurity threats and how they take proactive steps to mitigate them will factor heavily into profitability, reputation and long-term success.

Ransomware attacks are a huge problem: in the past five years alone, they have brought about a state of emergency across vast swathes of the United States, threatened to topple the Costa Rican government, and brought Portugal's largest media conglomerate to its knees. And ransomware attackers show no signs of slowing down: last year, roughly one-third of all data breaches involved ransomware or some other extortion technique.

Memory dump analysis is a crucial aspect of digital forensics, offering a snapshot of a system's volatile memory at a specific point in time. This can uncover critical evidence such as running processes, open network connections, and in-memory malware execution that disk analysis might miss. In a previous blog, we learnt how to use fmem for volatile memory acquisition.

Whether you're working with on-premises infrastructure, fully embracing the cloud, or running a hybrid solution, one thing is certain: a robust security posture is essential to safeguarding the environment. This article will explore today’s fundamentals of security posture assessment in both on-premises and cloud environments while briefly touching on the added complexities a hybrid setup will entail.

Cybersecurity and threat preparedness may be at the forefront of your mind, and you may have protections in place against more common threats. Yet, as these threats continue to evolve, vigilance and adaptation are crucial for construction and manufacturing organizations.

In a recent LevelBlue incident response engagement, an analyst in our managed detection and response (MDR) security operations center (SOC) responded to an alarm that was triggered by a suspicious email/inbox rule. The rule aimed to conceal responses to an internal phishing attempt from the account user, so the attacker could solicit funds from the company's users.