Fighting Cyber Threats With Open-Source Tools and Open Standards

Detecting cyber threats is usually the first critical step in the mitigation of cyber attacks. Common means to achieve this goal are rules or analytics that track network and system behaviors and raise alerts when potentially malicious attacks are identified. Once a potential threat is detected, the staff of the security operations center (SOC) investigates […]

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Red & Blue: United We Stand

Offensive and defensive security are typically viewed as opposite sides of the same fence. On one side, the offensive team aims to prevent attackers from compromising an organization, whereas on the other side the defensive team aims to stop attackers once they are inside. The fence, metaphorically speaking, is the adversary. The adversary’s moves, motives […]

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Analysis of Diavol Ransomware Reveals Possible Link to TrickBot Gang

Ransomware has become the number one cyber threat to organizations, making up nearly 25% of attacks IBM X-Force Incident Response remediated in 2020. Ransomware is making headlines on a regular basis due to the high impact of certain attacks on victims in critical industries. It’s unlikely that the pace of attacks will slow down in […]

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Ransomware Attempt Volume Sets A New Record

An article published in ZDNet has cited a report prepared by a cyber security firm that says that ransomware attempt volume saw a major rise in the first half of 2021 itself. The report has mentioned that the ransomware attempt volume rose up to an unb… Continue reading Ransomware Attempt Volume Sets A New Record

What is Anomaly Detection in Cybersecurity?

Anomaly detection, the “identification of rare occurrences, items, or events of concern due to their differing characteristics from the majority of the processed data,” allows organizations to track “security errors, structural defects and even bank fr… Continue reading What is Anomaly Detection in Cybersecurity?

75,000+ Customers Affected in CNA Ransomware Attack

The CNA ransomware attack that made the news in March this year has an extension to the story. The insurance giant revealed that the organization suffered a data breach following the ransomware attack.  The American insurance major has recently disclos… Continue reading 75,000+ Customers Affected in CNA Ransomware Attack

RedFoxtrot Targets Indian Organizations

RedFoxtrot cyber threat group, which is believed to have links with the Chinese military, has been targeting Indian organizations since becoming active in 2014. This hacker group has particularly focussed on targeting Indian institutions ranging from d… Continue reading RedFoxtrot Targets Indian Organizations

Russian Spear Phishing Campaign Hits Ukraine

Ukrainian cyber security agencies have warned that their government and private organizations are being targeted by a massive spear phishing campaign launched by Russian threat actors.  The Ukrainian secret service has called this the work of ‘special … Continue reading Russian Spear Phishing Campaign Hits Ukraine

A Look into Chuck Brooks’s Alarming Cybersecurity Stats

2020 will be remembered most as the year the world was swept up in the COVID pandemic. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find another alarming news story: 2020 was a record breaking year on the Cybersecurity front. There was more data lost in breaches and… Continue reading A Look into Chuck Brooks’s Alarming Cybersecurity Stats