Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Ranging from the process of recovering stolen data to having to hire legal services, a cyberattack generates a series of costs that companies have to face. According to an IBM report, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million in 2023, which represents an increase of 15% in three years. This seven-digit figure is clearly worrying.

Modern organizations face a wide and constantly changing range of network security threats, and security leaders must constantly update their security posture against them. As threat actors change their tactics, techniques, and procedures, exploit new vulnerabilities, and deploy new technologies to support their activities — it’s up to security teams to respond by equipping themselves with solutions that address the latest threats.

Network vulnerability scanning provides in-depth insight into your organization’s security posture and highlights the specific types of vulnerabilities attackers may exploit when targeting it. These tools work by systematically scanning your network environment — including all desktops, laptops, mobile endpoints, servers, and other assets for known weaknesses and misconfigurations. Your analyzer then produces a detailed report that tells you exactly how hackers might breach your systems.

Data is at the heart of nearly every business operation, and it’s critical to ensure the security and integrity of that data. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) has long been a popular choice for organizations seeking a scalable, cost-effective, and resilient storage solution for their data needs. In fact, nearly one million organizations around the world rely on Amazon S3 to store hundreds of exabytes of unstructured, business-critical data.

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.