Better Secure and Manage Endpoints in a Remote Work World

The global pandemic has quickly changed how and where we work. Remote work is now the ‘new normal.’ Amid the massive transition, a June survey by S&P Global found: More than two-thirds of companies may be working from home forever Offices that do remain will probably shrink: 47% of respondents sa...

Industrial Cyberattacks Get Rarer but More Complex

Cyberattacks against the oil and gas industry inched up only slightly compared to the second half of 2019. Security experts say they are encouraged by the anemic growth, but at the same time are expressing concern that attacks are now becoming more potent, targeted and complex. According to new...

Report Looks at COVID-19’s Massive Impact on Cybersecurity

Most cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to COVID-19. Of course, malicious downloads would be COVID-19 related...

New Report Explains COVID-19's Impact on Cyber Security

Most cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to Covid-19, and malicious downloads would be Covid-19 related. This is...

CISA: Chinese Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Devices to Target U.S. Agencies

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a new advisory on Monday about a wave of cyberattacks carried by Chinese nation-state actors targeting US government agencies and private entities. "CISA has observed Chinese Ministry of State Security-affiliated cyber threat...

Microsoft Warns of Cyberattacks on Trump, Biden Election Campaigns

The U.S. election campaigns of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have been targeted in a slew of recent cyberattacks, Microsoft said on Thursday. With the U.S. presidential election a mere two months away, in recent weeks cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in it have ramped up...

The U.S. Secret Service Selects Tom Kellermann to Serve on Inaugural Cyber Investigations Advisory Board

Cybersecurity has become a recurring global news headline. From ransomware to data breaches, cyberattacks continue to be one of the biggest threats to both the private and public sectors. Earlier this year, the FBI reported a 400 percent increase in cybercrime1. And for the public sector, this is...

How Zero Trust and SASE Can Redefine Network Defenses for Remote Workforces

Zero Trust has been touted for years as the future of network security. But, only recently has it started to gain traction as a practical enterprise security framework. The implementation of digital transformation initiatives has thrust Zero Trust into the spotlight as network applications and...

SMB Cybersecurity Catching Up to Enterprise… But the Human Element Still a Major Concern

Cyberattacks on small to medium-sized businesses SMBs are continuing at a relentless pace, with the vast majority of data breaches coming from outside the organization. Some believe hackers are aggressively targeting these smaller firms because they believe SMBs lack adequate resources and...

CEOs Could Be Held Personally Liable for Cyberattacks that Kill

A full 75 percent of top brass at companies will be personally on the hook for cyber-physical security CSP incidents by 2024 – especially those that involve fatalities. That’s according to the Gartner research firm, which predicted this week that CEOs soon will no longer be able to hide behind...

Google Ups Product-Abuse Bug Bounties

Google is increasing the reward amounts in its bug-bounty program for reports focusing on potential attacks in the product-abuse space, to top out at $13,337 per report. Product abuse is when a threat actor uses a legitimate service in a way that enables social-engineering or other cyberattacks...

The FBI Intrusion Notification Program

The FBI intrusion notification program is one of the most important developments in cyber security during the last 15 years. This program achieved mainstream recognition on 24 March 2014 when Ellen Nakashima reported on it for the Washington Post in her story U.S. notified 3,000 companies in 2013...

DoJ Aims to Seize 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Used by Hackers

The U.S. government aims to seize control of 280 illegal cryptocurrency accounts it claims were used by North Korean state-sponsored attackers in their efforts to hack cryptocurrency exchanges and funnel hundreds of millions in stolen funds through a Chinese money-laundering network. The U.S...

Shoring Up the 2020 Election: Secure Vote Tallies Aren't the Problem

With the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election coming up in just two months, cybersecurity concerns are taking center stage for average citizens and politicians. That said, the likelihood of election results being impacted by an attack are slim, security researchers say. The focus should be on other...

Jack Daniels, Ritz London Face Cyberattacks

A pair of cyberattacks on high-profile targets – the owner of the Jack Daniels distillery and the iconic Ritz London hotel – have resulted in the exposure of sensitive information. The maker behind Jack Daniels and other alcoholic beverages, Brown-Forman Corp., has suffered a recent cyberattack b...

The Future of Security: Lessons from Black Hat USA

For the last 23 years, Black Hat has been the world’s leading information security event where attendees are able to experience the latest security research, development, and trends. While 2020 marks the first year that Black Hat will be virtual, it does not limit the level of engaging content th...

Incident Response Analyst Report 2019

Download full report PDF As an incident response service provider, Kaspersky delivers a global service that results in global visibility of adversaries cyber-incident tactics and techniques used in the wild. In this report, we share our teams conclusions and analysis based on incident responses a...

Black Hat USA 2020: VMware Carbon Black Releases Global Incident Response Threat Report Detailing Surge in Cyberattacks Amid COVID-19

At Black Hat USA this week, VMware Carbon Black unveils findings from the fifth installment of the semiannual Global Incident Response Threat Report, entitled: “COVID-19 Continues to Create a Larger Surface Area for Cyberattacks,” based on an online survey in April 2020 of forty-nine incident...

Billions of Devices Impacted by Secure Boot Bypass

Billions of Windows and Linux devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks stemming from a bug in the GRUB2 bootloader, researchers are warning. GRUB2 which stands for the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2 is the default bootloader for the majority of computing systems. Its job is to manage part of th...

Tale of the Tape: Top 5 Reasons Phishing Attacks Haven't Dried Up

One of my favourite websites is archive.org OK, so I'm a nerd. For anyone not familiar with this website, it's essentially a time machine that allows you to go back and look at pretty much any site from a point in time over the past 20-odd years. Recently I came across a story on the BBC website...