Despite ransomware getting the lion’s share of the tech pub headlines, business email compromise (BEC) attacks are alive and well… and having a material impact. New data from Arctic Wolf’s 2024 State of Cybersecurity report shows that BEC attacks – whether attempted or successful – are far more widely felt than previously thought.

For the second consecutive year, Trustwave has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response. "We are honored Gartner has yet again named Trustwave a Representative Vendor for MDR," said Trustwave CEO Eric Harmon. "It is well understood that organizations today face a wide variety of threats that are best combatted by a world-class team of analysts and researchers like Trustwave SpiderLabs.

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Cyber threats are increasing and, unfortunately, local and state government entities have become top targets. In 2023, the FBI reported that government entities were the third most-targeted sector by ransomware, and Arctic Wolf’s own research saw the average ransom for government organizations top $1 million USD. And that’s just one kind of cyber attack.

In Part 1 of this series, we explored the intricacies of language models' "Retrieval" aspect, delving into how these models search and pull relevant information from vast data repositories. As we continue our journey into understanding the inner workings of language models, let’s turn our attention to the next crucial stage, "Augmentation and Generation." In this blog post, we will explore the augmentation and generation phase, a process that is integral to the functioning of the RAG pipeline.

Updated on 07/18/2024 Static Application Security Testing (SAST) has been a central part of application security efforts for more than 15 years. According to the Crowdstrike 2024 State of Application Security Report, eight out of the top 10 data breaches of 2023 were related to application attack surfaces, so it’s safe to say that SAST will be in use for the foreseeable future.

In the ever-evolving landscape of AI, maintaining compliance standards and ensuring secure usage of generative AI applications remains an important priority for enterprises. Across the globe, regulatory frameworks like the European Union’s AI Act have been established to ensure that AI systems are developed and deployed in a manner that prioritizes safety, transparency, ethics, and fundamental rights.

In the constantly evolving world of cybersecurity, staying ahead of emerging threats requires continuous vigilance and adaptation. Fortunately for those of us in the industry, we’ve been able to count on highly respected digital forensics and incident response specialists like Mandiant to publish annual research on the latest security trends seen first-hand by their global teams.

The ransomware attack against UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare platform is expected to cost the company up to $2.45 billion, more than a billion dollars more than was previously estimated, Cybersecurity Dive reports. The incident has already cost the firm nearly $2 billion.