CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

AT&T Alien Labs™ is writing this report about recently created ransomware malware dubbed BlackCat which was used in a January 2022 campaign against two international oil companies headquartered in Germany, Oiltanking and Mabanaft. Key takeaways: The ransomware BlackCat is coded in Rust and was created in November 2021.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But a hallmark of the event since it was first held in 2009 is visiting speakers who aren’t afraid to challenge popular narratives. Leaders guiding their organisations today need to know how to balance AI’s benefits – like real-time threat detection, rapid response, and automated defences – with new risks and complexities.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 10, 2023

The constant evolution of the digital world has not only presented an abundance of opportunities, but also raised an equal amount of security challenges, ransomware being one of the most sinister. The underlying problem we sought to address was the ability to automatically recover hosts from a ransomware attack.

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Webroot

JUNE 2, 2022

The cyber threat landscape keeps evolving at lightning-speed. According to the latest 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report , small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are particularly vulnerable to becoming a victim of a ransomware attack. Ransomware, malware and phishing threats keep evolving.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Drawing on recent events and the resilient nature of cyber threats, as highlighted in an insightful piece on the LockBit ransomware saga, it’s evident that the cybersecurity landscape is more volatile than ever. McMurry “We see the problem getting larger, with cyber threats becoming more sophisticated by the day.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world security incident investigations conducted and reported by the AT&T SOC analyst team for AT&T Managed Threat Detection and Response customers. Events search. Event deep dive. Executive summary. Expanded investigation.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

Intel has introduced its 13 th Generation Core processor line, which the company claims is the first to build threat detection into hardware. In combination with endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms from Intel partners, the new vPro processors promise a 70% reduction in attack surface compared to four-year-old PCs.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Since it’s a live event, 100 percent uptime is imperative for the Super Bowl, ensuring fans don’t miss a moment of the action. The Super Bowl is the largest sporting and television event in the United States, with nearly 100 million viewers. Securing an event of this magnitude can be quite a challenge.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 24, 2021

All detections are presented in a context-rich manner, which gives users the ability to drill into the specific security events that support the threat detections grouped eventually into alerts. This is where global threat alerts saves you time, investigating alerts and accelerating resolution.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Key Points Ransomware activity grew by 2.3% In the short term, we expect a gradual increase in ransomware incidents, peaking by Q4 2024. In the long term, we anticipate a greater use of large language models (LLMs) in ransomware negotiations and a rise in exfiltration-only attacks. lower than in Q3 2023. compared to Q3 2023.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In today’s world, both small businesses and everyday consumers face a growing number of cyber threats. From ransomware attacks to phishing scams, hackers are becoming more sophisticated. OpenText’s 2024 Threat Hunter Perspective sheds light on what’s coming next and how to protect yourself.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

Streamlined RaaS Operations: The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ecosystem has become more efficient, with affiliates adopting new, more specialized strategies like help-desk scams to accelerate and refine their attacks. Buyers of these credentials include ransomware affiliates, un-affiliated threat actors, and IABs.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

Babuk – the allegedly Russian-speaking ransomware gang targeting D.C.’s Babuk – the allegedly Russian-speaking ransomware gang targeting D.C.’s Stefano De Blasi, threat researcher at Digital Shadows, said Babuk’s move comes as a surprise in a historical moment where ransomware groups are getting increasingly bold.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The research shows that cyber threats like ransomware have become a top priority for business executives and boards of directors,” said Jon Oltsik, an analyst with ESG. Not surprisingly, 46% said ransomware protection was one of their top five spending priorities. It can detect and respond to known and unknown threats.

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SecureList

APRIL 16, 2025

Inefficient use of data for correlation in many cases, relevant data is available to detect threats, but there are no correlation rules in place to leverage it for threat detection. In the example above, the analyst may suspect a potential initial access attempt related to QakBot or Black Basta ransomware.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2021

Thursday marked a rare day where law enforcement agencies around the world hit back in the war against ransomware attackers. Europol authorities said Emotet’s malware-for-hire business model and its prominent place in the ransomware ecosystem made it a high-priority target for law enforcement.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Cisco Security was honored to be a sponsor of the 24th Black Hat USA 2021 Conference – the internationally recognized cybersecurity event series providing the security community with the latest cutting-edge research, developments and training. Check out these other Black Hat sessions exploring ransomware, threat intelligence and more.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 2022.4 SolarWinds SIEM Features Rated Threats Blocked: Good. SolarWinds SEM also integrates with online threat feeds and can notify and respond to inbound/outbound traffic and authentication attempts with known bad IP addresses for threats such as ransomware, malware, spam, phishing, and more.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 30, 2022

After two years of virtual engagements, in-person events like our CISO Forum and Cisco Live as well as the industry’s RSA Conference underscore the power of face-to-face interactions. However, advanced telemetry, threat detection and protection, and continuous trusted access all help decelerate the trend.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 8, 2025

Practice reverting to manual controls to quickly restore operations in the event of an incident. The targeting of CNI entities, and the subsequent operations following access, suggest threat actors may be building strategic pathways to yield geopolitical leverage in the event of conflict."

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

Intelligence: Global threat intelligence, advanced threat detection, and integrated incident response. Metrics: Monitors more than 150 billion security events per day in more than 130 countries. Intelligence: Threat intelligence and incident response services supported by IBM Security X-Force. million devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2021

These connections into your environment pull events and security intelligence into one centralized hub for further correlation and add context so you can respond to threats faster. Technology that finds more threats faster. This allows for faster and more accurate detection of threats. Conclusion.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Taking a Proactive Approach to Mitigating Ransomware Part 3: Continuously Monitoring SAP Applications for Indicators of Compromise ltabo Wed, 12/20/2023 - 13:38 This is the last in our series on hardening security for the application layer as part of your proactive approach to mitigating ransomware. This makes sense.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Event is FREE! CHALLENGE: Increasing number of ransomware and DDoS attacks, new vulnerabilities introduced by work-from-home, and the need to protect rapidly growing volumes of IoT devices, has put many enterprise security organizations at a crossroads. Top three ways to prepare for a ransomware event. 27-28 and free!

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Integrating with other security solutions: Combine EDR with SIEM systems, threat intelligence feeds , and other tools to improve overall threat detection and response capabilities throughout your security ecosystem. Organizations can use this information to avoid emerging threats and improve their overall security posture.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2022

The AlienApp for Cisco Secure Endpoint enables you to automate threat detection and response activities between USM Anywhere and Cisco Secure Endpoint. In addition, it allows you to collect hourly events from Cisco Secure Endpoint through the USM Anywhere Job Scheduler. New Secure Malware Analytics (Threat Grid) Integrations.

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Cisco Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Rather than performing hours of cumbersome tasks such as conducting manual searches and cross-references across different datasets, users can get granular by drilling down into policy violations to view all associated IPs and related flows, associated endpoints, ISE-registered usernames, and events with timestamps on single pane.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As the threat landscape evolves faster than we can keep up with, organizations must be aware of the type of threats they may face. Certain threat types, like ransomware and malware, are more prominent and therefore must be fought with the appropriate resources. Defining Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).

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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 9, 2024

Examples include Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Threat Detection and Response (TDR), and SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS). EDR provides endpoint-focused threat identification, remediation and threat hunting support.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The largest share of all detected mobile threats accrued to RiskTool apps — 65.84%. 676,190 malicious installation packages were detected, of which: 12,097 packages were related to mobile banking Trojans; 6,157 packages were mobile ransomware Trojans. Distribution of detected mobile malware by type. Verdict. %*.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 16, 2021

With 13% of human-related breaches containing ransomware and 10% of ransomware attacks costing organizations an average of $1 million, IT security teams need to be prepared for the worst. Ransomware, virus, and malware removal. ManagedXDR enables the team to deal with an increasing workload and threat volume.

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Cisco Security

MAY 18, 2021

These industries experienced higher incident rates across the board, with hospitality companies falling victim to more data breaches (23%), fraud or scams (21%), and ransomware attacks (20%) than other industries. We also asked respondents reporting major security incidents about the impacts associated with those events.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 20, 2025

Lets explore some notable use cases: Incident Response: A multinational company faced a ransomware attack that encrypted a portion of its servers. Example: A timeline visualization of a ransomware attack can illustrate how it spread across systems, guiding containment and recovery efforts.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 7, 2024

These arms encompass a wide array of malicious software, including viruses, worms, ransomware, and zero-day exploits, designed to infiltrate, disrupt, or destroy computer systems and networks. Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts data and demands payment for its release.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 22, 2024

Among the risks are an increased attack surface—stemming from the adoption of IoT devices, precision farming technologies, and digital supply chain management systems—and more sophisticated attacks leveraging advanced techniques like AI-driven malware, ransomware, and phishing schemes tailored to exploit specific vulnerabilities.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Log monitoring is the process of analyzing log file data produced by applications, systems and devices to look for anomalous events that could signal cybersecurity, performance or other problems. These security logs document the events and actions, when they happened, and the causes of errors.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. This year we saw the reemergence of old vectors: from ransomware & trojans, to supply chain attacks. Read more here.

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