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CISOs and IT leaders are tasked with the critical responsibility of safeguarding their organisations against an ever-increasing array of threats, all while striving to optimise costs and drive business growth. CISOs are grappling with the demand to achieve more with limited resources this year—a challenge that many have not encountered before.

MITRE ATT&CK Reconnaissance (TA0043) techniques section maps out how threat actors gather information about potential targets. Like other ATT&CK tactics (like initial access and lateral movement), reconnaissance provides useful threat intelligence on adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). It is a realistic approximation of what will happen if you become a target.

CherryBlos is a rather interesting family of Android malware that can plunder your cryptocurrency accounts - with a little help from your photos.

CyberArk MFA now supports authentication with phishing-resistant passkeys and qualifies for the highest NIST Authenticator Assurance Level (AAL3). Based on FIDO2 standards, passkeys replace passwords and provide faster, easier and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across user devices. With this release, end users can authenticate using passkeys to access their applications and resources.

Sumo Logic reported a security breach on November 3, 2023, due to a compromised credential that allowed unauthorized AWS account access.

In early November, the cybersecurity community witnessed the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server. This critical vulnerability was related to Improper Authorization and assigned CVE-2023-22518 identifier. In this blog, we delve into the details of these vulnerabilities, their implications, and the necessary mitigation steps to protect your digital assets.

Organizations focus on building resilience in their global supply chain through effective supply chain risk management strategies. The planning process involves identifying potential high-risk factors, analyzing their impact, and developing strategic measures for mitigating risk. In addition, organizations perform due diligence when creating incident response and recovery plans to ensure business continuity and avoid supply chain disruptions.

OpenAI has suffered a successful DDoS attack following the first-ever DevDay—where OpenAI announced ChatGPT-4 Turbo and the GPT Store. OpenAI’s ChatGPT launch was nearly a year ago and has since become the mainstream solution for AI tasks. The software hosts a hearty 180.5 million users, many of whom use the software for professional tasks. The DDoS attack is alarming, not because it happened, but because of who claims the event—Russian-backed Anonymous Sudan.

This week, a variety of cyberattacks and victims have appeared. The pilot union Allied Pilots Association (APA), representing American Airlines pilots, disclosed a ransomware attack early in the week. An active ransomware attack unfolded by Tuesday, targeting LEGO fanatic website BrickLink. Sand LifeStyle members also had exposed data following a breach in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands resort network.

By the year 2025, an estimated 463 exabytes will be created daily. For reference, one exabyte is 8,000,000,000,000,000,000 bits. That’s a lot of data. And even though cyber-attacks will increase as the attack surface expands, with cybercrime costing the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, data will remain the most valuable resource for today’s global enterprise.