The Defense Department's updated cyber strategy calls for disrupting malicious actors and boosting the cyber capabilities of U.S. allies to take on Chinese threats to critical infrastructure. Defense officials also plan to conduct defensive operations to protect the department's information network.
Multiple nation-state hacking groups have been exploiting known flaws in Zoho ManageEngine software and Fortinet firewalls to steal data, cybersecurity officials warn. A new alert details exploits of each vulnerability by separate groups that targeted the same aeronautical firm.
According to this year’s SANS Attack and Threat Report, the single most important factor enabling successful attacks in 2022 was the attackers’ use of reusable credentials, mostly obtained via phishing techniques. HIMSS research has found that 27% of SOCs receive up to one million alerts per day. So, where do...
Ransomware incidents are down, but the volume and impact of targeted attacks are on the rise. These are among the findings of the new Global Threat Landscape Report from Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs. Fortinet's Derek Manky shares analysis of this report and insights on the cybersecurity trends that will influence how we...
Nearly one year ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, and we continue to see cyber operations play a prominent role in the war. To provide more insights into the role of cyber, today, we are releasing our report Fog of War: How the Ukraine Conflict Transformed the Cyber Threat Landscape based on analysis from Google’s Threat...
Cloud-native SIEM dramatically simplifies deployment and management, and increases ease of use, speed, and detection accuracy. As organizations grow, merge, and evolve, cloud-native security solutions can offload the costs of hardware and maintenance from IT teams and simplify operations for security engineers and...
According to this year’s SANS Threat Hunting Survey, threat hunting resourcing is an “ever-growing staffing nightmare.” 73% of this year’s respondents claimed that their biggest challenge is finding skilled staff. This is a 7% increase over 2022, and a whopping 43% increase over 2021.
This talent drought...
It's getting harder to distinguish between normal and unusual threat activity, with more sophisticated attacks exacerbated by hybrid work and, soon, AI attacks. Defenders need correlated rather than isolated telemetry to get more signal and less noise, say Jeetu Patel and Tom Gillis of Cisco.
Mandiant's 14th edition of M-Trends has been released, offering a comprehensive and insightful examination of the constantly evolving cyber threat landscape. Drawing upon Mandiant's extensive experience in incident response investigations and threat intelligence analysis, the report delves into high-impact attacks and...
According to a recent SANS report, 68% of organizations identify the lack of training and skilled staff as the primary barriers to operating a successful threat-hunting team. This year’s analysis found that 51% of security teams consider their threat-hunting posture as still maturing, acknowledging the need to...
A lack of visibility makes it nearly impossible to protect an organization against attack. If you can't see what's lurking in the dark corners of your environment, all you can do is react instead of actively identifying and mitigating risks. But some technologies can help with threat visibility.
With digital transformation, the IT landscape is fragmented and security is no longer limited to a rigid perimeter.
As per Mandiant‘s Cyber Security Forecast 2023, Ransomware will continue to have a strong influence on the global cyber security threat landscape. Europe could soon replace the United States as...
The U.S. Department of Defense is looking for a few good hackers to penetrate a facilities network underpinning the Pentagon's basement, mezzanine, and the command and communications center used by the president and the secretary of defense. Defense has hosted white hat hacking sessions since 2016.
Black Hat Europe returns to London, offering deep dives into the latest cybersecurity research and trends, including how to build an open, transparent, but also secure internet; harvesting zero-day flaws before attackers; what we can learn from "metaparasitical" scammers who scam scammers; and more.
Tributes are being paid to Vitali Kremez, who has died at the age of 34 in a suspected scuba-diving accident. The renowned threat intelligence expert, born in Belarus, had long tracked Russian cybercrime syndicates and was part of an ad hoc group established to counter ransomware and help victims.
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