According to CrowdStrike Report, a 50% increase has been analyzed in active intrusions and cyber-attacks in 2022. And the number may increase in 2023 too. With more and more applications becoming a target of hackers, it getting complex for developers to identify relevant security approaches. Development teams are somewhere unable to select the best mechanism, which would be compatible, high-performing, and strong enough to prevent attacks.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the repository for a wealth of knowledge dating back to the nation's founding. The information behind many of the world's greatest inventions ranging from the light bulb, iPhone, Maglev trains to the zipper are housed and protected by the USPTO. A task that is now considerably more difficult as the primary storage medium moves from paper to on-premises and into the cloud.
In our new threat briefing, Forescout’s Vedere Labs details tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) commonly adopted by ransomware groups and provides specific mitigation recommendations. In addition to basic cyber hygiene practices, we recommend using Forescout XDR for extended detection and response. Its 1,500+ detection rules cover hundreds of the TTPs most commonly used by ransomware.
Emotet is undoubtedly a very resilient botnet. Even though its operation was disrupted by Europol in January 2021, Emotet came back a few months later and continues to spread. In May 2022, shortly after Microsoft released new controls related to malicious macros, Netskope Threat Labs analyzed an Emotet campaign where they were testing a new delivery method, by using LNK files.
In this blog post, we'll cover some best practices for managing AWS secrets when using the AWS SDK in Python.
