Category Archives: Behavioral Analytics

Move Over, Ransomware: Why Cybercriminals Are Shifting Their Focus to Cryptojacking

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Instead of seeking financial gains with ransom demands, threat actors are now aiming to steal central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) resources to facilitate cryptojacking.

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How Can Security Leaders Maintain Control of Privileged Accounts?

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When users are granted inappropriate access to privileged accounts, they open the entire IT environment to vulnerabilities — and make it easier for malicious actors to infiltrate corporate networks.

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It’s Time to Bring Cloud Environments Out of the Shadows

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Business leaders often rush to migrate corporate assets to cloud environments to boost productivity and lower costs, but adopting cloud services without proper oversight can put data at risk.

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Machine Learning Is Our Best Weapon Against Spiraling Cyberthreats

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To defend their confidential data from increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals, security teams must leverage machine learning to perform analytical tasks that are too tedious for humans to complete.

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Deception Technologies: Deceiving the Attacker or the Buyer?

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Deception technologies, over the last three-ish years, have come into vogue; with more than a dozen commercial vendors and close to a hundred open source products available to choose from. Solutions range from local host canary file monitoring, through… Continue reading Deception Technologies: Deceiving the Attacker or the Buyer?→

Don’t Worry About the KRACK Vulnerability — Just Create a Team of Superheroes!

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There is no silver bullet to thwart the KRACK vulnerability, but a security intelligence platform can help analysts become security superheroes.

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Don’t Worry About the KRACK Vulnerability — Just Create a Team of Superheroes!

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There is no silver bullet to thwart the KRACK vulnerability, but a security intelligence platform can help analysts become security superheroes.

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Massive Identity Data Exposure Leads to Rising Tides of New Account Fraud — What’s Next?

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New account fraud is rising in popularity among cybercriminals due to the frequency with which users are opening new online banking accounts.

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Just a Passing Fad? Fidget Spinners and the Malware Sandbox

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A traditional malware sandbox running OS-level analysis is prone to missing sophisticated threats and advanced evasion techniques.

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