Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths: “Threat Hunting Is Just a Fad”

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, fileless and...

Zero Trust and the Case for Application Microsegmentation

Data breaches have become incessant. Recently, a very popular airline sevices company revealed a suspected breach involving customer credit card information. Even more recently, a hospital in Indiana reported that a virus had infected some of its systems that caused the hospital to be placed on...

BLITZ! Like a Great Middle Linebacker, An Agile & Strong EDR Solution Can Quickly Respond to an Offensive Attack

As we near the close of 2018, we should appreciate that cyberspace has become an increasingly hostile landscape. Geoplitical tensions are manifesting in cyberspace and cyber criminals have become increasingly punitive this year. We at Carbon Black have observed some interesting trends: Vapor Worm...

As Cryptocurrency Crash Continues, Will Mining Threat Follow?

Post authored by Nick Biasini. Executive Summary As 2018 draws to a close, one technology has definitively left its mark on the year: cryptocurrencies. Digital currencies started the year out strong after a meteoric rise toward the end of 2017. Since then, it's safe to say that cryptocurrencies...

Quiz Phishing: One Scam, 78 Variations

Over the past year, Akamai Enterprise Threat Research team monitored the usage of one particular phishing toolkit in the wild. We previously wrote about this phishing toolkit as "Three Questions Quiz". The "Quiz" toolkit is not new to the threat landscape, as its been used in many phishing...

Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths: “Threat Hunting Isn’t Worth My Time”

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, fileless and...

New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies

As if you haven't heard it enough from us, the threat landscape is changing. It's always changing, and usually not for the better. The new malware we see being developed and deployed in the wild have features and techniques that allow them to go beyond what they were originally able to do, either...

Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths: “EDR Is Threat Hunting”

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, fileless and...

Which Threats had the Most Impact During the First Half of 2018?

One of the best ways for organizations to shore up their data security efforts and work toward more proactive protection is by examining trends within the threat environment. Taking a look at the strategies for attack, infiltration and infection currently being utilized by hackers can point towar...

Passwords: Here to Stay, Despite Smart Alternatives?

The lowly password is much-maligned as being the weakest link in any company’s security defenses. That’s for good reason: It’s a fact that password reuse, a lack of strong passwords, a failure to change them on a regular basis and other human errors plague the efficacy of this de facto standard f...

Extending Public-Private Partnerships with Milipol

By: Loïc Guézo At Trend Micro, we’ve been protecting consumers, SMBs, enterprises and government customers from the latest threats for three decades now. This has required us to build a global team of experienced researchers, state-of-the-art R&D labs and much more, to fuel our industry-leading...

Hackers attacking your memories: science fiction or future threat?

Authors: Kaspersky Lab and the Oxford University Functional Neurosurgery Group There is an episode in the dystopian near-future series Black Mirror about an implanted chip that allows users to record and replay everything they see and hear. A recent YouGov survey found that 29% of viewers would b...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Bridging the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Pumpkins, football, and cooler weather are three big indicators that it’s officially October. But, the most near and dear benchmark to my heart is that it’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM 2018. In its 15th year, NCASM is as an annual initiative to raise awareness about the importanc...

Partner Perspectives: Siemplify & Carbon Black Create Competitive Solution for MSSPs

Meny Har is the VP of Product for Siemplify. Advanced threats and an ever-evolving competitive landscape have created an increased demand for managed security services. Organizations of all sizes are turning to managed security services providers MSSPs to help them to effectively manage their...

Emotet on the rise with heavy spam campaign

The threat landscape is changing once again, now that the ocean of cryptocurrency miners has shrunk to a small lake. Over the last couple months, we've seen cybercriminals lean back on tried and true methods of financial theft and extortion, with the rise of a familiar Banking Trojan: Emotet...

Microsoft Security Servicing Criteria for Windows

One of our goals in the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is to be more transparent with security researchers and our customers on the criteria we use for determining when we intend to address a reported vulnerability through a security update. Our belief is that improving transparency on...

10 Endpoint Security Problems Solved by the Cloud – Getting The Help You Need

Last week we looked at how the cloud helps you respond quickly to threats. This week, we’re going to examine why the cloud outperforms traditional AV when it comes to getting the help you need. It's You vs. Them Once upon a time, viruses were produced by individual hackers who were more intereste...

What Can Application Control Do For You?

In past blogs, we’ve taken a look at application control and the best practices for successful deployment. Today we’re going to shift gears slightly, and highlight the reasons some companies have chosen this practice. Whitelist With Flexibility It seems counterintuitive to put “whitelisting” and...

Carbon Black Report: 35% of IR Pros See Espionage as Primary Motive for Attackers

Fraught Geopolitical Tensions Play Out in Cyberspace In an effort to gauge the current attack landscape and to quantify the latest attack trends seen by leading IR firms, Carbon Black has introduced its Quarterly Incident Response Threat Report QIRTR. This report aggregates both qualitative and...

How mobile threats impact today’s BYOD landscape

Bring-your-own-device BYOD has been a revolutionary concept for years now, even before it was recognized by enterprise policy. However, now that business executives and IT leaders have realized the benefits this type of strategy for their organizations, BYOD is becoming an increasingly powerful w...