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If the holiday classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” was remade in 2023, the mean green guy might be played by an Internet bot. Sure, these bots may not come down your chimney and steal a tree or holiday dinner, but threat actors have designed them to help ruin retailer and consumer holiday shopping experiences. Trustwave SpiderLabs exposed how the two primary bot variants, Grinchbots and Freebie Bots, operate in the team's recent report.

One in two sites on AppTrana WAAP have faced a DDoS attack in the last 90 days. Most of those attacks were thwarted using a combination of machine learning on user behaviour and granular rate limits at URI, IP, and Geo levels. For SOC teams who don’t have an advanced behavioural DDoS mitigation tool like AppTrana at their disposal, this blog covers basic mitigation measures that can thwart the most simple and medium-severity DDoS attacks.

We recently published a blog titled Defending Your Organization Against Session Cookie Replay Attacks. This blog thoroughly examined the menace of session cookie replay attacks, shedding light on the potential risks and consequences they pose to online security. The post delved into the intricacies of session cookie replay attacks, detailing their working mechanisms and the extensive damage they can inflict and emphasizing the imperative need to comprehend and fortify against such threats.

Egnyte, as a custodian of vast volumes of customer data and files, manages billions of files and petabytes of data originating from millions of users. With a system processing over a million API requests per minute, spanning metadata operations and analytical queries, the need to balance throughput and maintain exceptional service quality is paramount.

Server Message Block (SMB) protocol is a communication protocol that allows users to communicate with remote servers and computers, which they can open, share, edit files, and even share and utilize resources. With the expansion of telecommunications, this protocol has been a prime target for threat actors to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and devices. In 2017, we introduced 5 general ways to protect your network from SMB risks.

Amid growing concerns about the integrity of upcoming European elections in 2024, the 11th edition of the Threat Landscape report by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), released on October 19, 2023, reveals alarming findings about the rising threats posed by AI-enabled information manipulation.

It goes without saying that organizations must back up their critical data to ensure business continuity in the event of cyber attacks, disasters, operational failures, or insider threats. But are passive backups enough in today’s environment of sophisticated cyber threats? Despite having backups and various security tools to monitor infrastructure, organizations remain vulnerable to attackers who are still managing to penetrate defenses.

Microsoft Ignite 2023 was an eventful one, with many announcements across Microsoft’s AI Copilot capabilities. The biggest announcement, in our opinion, is that of Microsoft Copilot Studio, a low-code tool that allows professional and citizen developers to build standalone AI Copilots, as well as customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.

As the times change and the threats evolve, financial institutions face relentless cyber threats from an ever-expanding number and variety of attack vectors. While individual resilience is important, the heavily interconnected nature of today’s financial services industry demands a unified approach to defense where all participants actively engage in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) sharing for the greater good.