Device Hopping Shoppers Drive Up Bounce Rates Leading Into Holiday 2019

Executive Summary In 2018, Akamai reported for the first time that shoppers used mobile devices more than desktops for all the major peak traffic events we measured. Interestingly, they often don't complete their purchase on a mobile device. If the most recently concluded back-to-school shopping...

Implementing Bug Bounty Programs: The Right and Wrong Approaches

While bug-bounty programs may seem like a cure-all solution for companies looking discover vulnerabilities in their systems more efficiently, the fact remains that a program could overwhelm a firm’s internal security team and cause other major headaches if implemented the wrong way. “You have to...

Where Will Ransomware Go In The Second Half Of 2019?

Ransomware has been an evolutionary malware family that continues to shift and change over the years. From the first fakeAV, to police ransomware, to the now oft-used crypto-ransomware, this threat just will not go away. Based on the latest trends, we predict this threat will grow in the second...

How Carbon Black is Prioritizing Living Off the Land Attacks Part 2

What are Living Off the Land LoL Attacks? In recent years, Living off the Land Binaries and Scripts LoLBas have become increasingly popular tools for cybercriminals. These types of attacks leverage native, signed, and often pre-installed applications in malicious ways that their creators never...

ThreatList: Ransomware Trojans Picking Up Steam in 2019

With the number of unique cyberincidents continuing to grow, ransomware-based attacks in particular are on the rise in 2019, researchers said. Ransomware trojan-based infections jutted up from 9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 to 24 percent in the first quarter of 2019, said Positive...

MS-ISAC Highlights Verizon Data Breach Report Release

The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC has released a Cybersecurity Spotlight on the 2019 Verizon Data Breach Report to raise awareness of data breach incidents and provide recommended best practices for election officials. The report—produced annually by the Verizon Threat...

4 Common Misconceptions About Threat Hunting

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Looking for cyber threats isn't new, but threat hunting as a...

News Wrap: Facebook Regulation, Verizon DBIR, Hidden Airbnb Cameras

From a massive data-breach report that showed surprising – and disturbing – cybercrime trends, to an op-ed in the New York Times that took aim at Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring break down this week’s biggest news. This weeks topics include:...

SAS 2019 to Tackle APTs, Supply Chains and More

Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit kicks off in Singapore next week, where elite researchers, top cybersecurity firms and global law-enforcement agencies will discuss today’s biggest cybersecurity threats and how best to squash them. This year marks the first time the global security...

Carbon Black’s Global Incident Response Threat Report: The Ominous Rise of “Island Hopping” & Counter Incident Response Continues

To stay abreast of the current attack landscape and to quantify the latest attack trends seen by leading IR firms, Carbon Black is publishing its third Global Incident Response Threat Report GIRTR since introducing it in July 2018. Aggregating qualitative and quantitative input from 40 Carbon Bla...

Registration for the 2019 Talos Threat Research Summit is now open

The Talos Threat Research Summit is officially back. Registration is open now for the second year of our conference by defenders, for defenders. Tickets sold out quickly last year for our inaugural event, so act quickly. This year’s Research Summit will take place on June 9 in San Diego, Calif. —...

Call for Papers | Microsoft BlueHat Shanghai 2019

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC recently announced our first BlueHat security conference in Shanghai which will take place on May 29-30, 2019. After 15 years of BlueHat events in Redmond, Washington and Israel, we are thrilled to expand to a new location. We work with many talented...

Modern Bank Heists: The Bank Robbery Shifts to Cyberspace

The financial sector has long been the target of some of the world’s greatest guilds of thieves, none perhaps more popular than the Dillinger gangs of the 1930s. In the second annual “Modern Bank Heists” report, Carbon Black collaborated with Optiv to survey CISOs at some of the world’s largest...

What to Expect at RSA 2019

Attending RSAC 2019? The week promises to be full of exciting content, useful connections, networking and insights into new security trends. BSides San Francisco The week will start on March 3rd with the amazing BSides event. The BSides community has continuously raised the bar and put the INFO...

U.S. Senators Urge VPN Ban for Federal Workers Over Spying

UPDATE Two U.S. senators are taking bipartisan aim at foreign-owned virtual private networks VPNs, which they say are often headquartered “in countries that do not share American interests or values” – specifically, China and Russia. Sens. Ron Wyden D-Ore. and Marco Rubio R-Fla. have signed a joi...

ThreatList: Latest DDoS Trends by the Numbers

Fresh statistics reveal a mix bag of good news and bad when it comes to distributed denial-of-service attacks in Q4 2018. According to the latest numbers available, the sheer number of attacks are down, but the length of time those attacks last have reached record lengths. The numbers come from...

A Look Back At The DDoS Trends of 2018

As mentioned in the 2018 Year in Review State of the Internet / Security report, trends in DDoS are remarkably stable. The size of the largest attacks have grown by approximately 6% on an annual basis, with occasional outliers like the Mirai botnet. The median size of attacks has been much more...

Data Exposed in OXO, Amazon and MongoDB Leaks

2019 has so far been making good on security experts’ predictions that there will be no ebb in data exposures for the new year: In the first half of January, several data breaches and leaks have already come to light, including three notable incidents at well-known firms in just the past week. Ov...

This Week in Security News: Adware and Ransomware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an adware that disguised itself as different apps and monitors mobile devices. Also, learn more about the different ransomware...

The State of Web Application Vulnerabilities in 2018

Jan. 12 update: Due to a data transfer error, some of the 2017 figures were incorrectly reported; this version of the blog has been corrected. This error did not affect our 2018 statistics, nor our conclusions. As a web application firewall provider, part of our job at Imperva is to continually...