4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization's Most Critical Assets

You're probably familiar with the term "critical assets". These are the technology assets within your company's IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged identities, the...

GHSA-9FCX-CV56-W58P Mautic vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal / Arbitrary File Deletion due to GrapesJS builder

Impact Prior to the patched version, logged in users of Mautic are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal/Arbitrary File Deletion. Regardless of the level of access the Mautic user had, they could delete files other than those in the media folders such as system files, libraries or other important...

Combine Qualys TruRisk™ and MITRE ATT&CK to Adopt Threat-Informed Defense to Reduce Risk

There are so many vulnerabilities disclosed daily that no one can patch all of them. Unfortunately, attackers can exploit them while you are still in the process of reviewing, prioritizing, and patching. Effective risk-based prioritization focuses your limited resources and remediation efforts...

Cloud storage security: What’s new in the threat matrix

Today, we announce the release of a second version of the threat matrix for storage services, a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services. The matrix, first released in April 2021 as detailed in the blog post Thre...

Decoding the DNA of Ransomware Attacks: Unveiling the Anatomy Behind the Threat

Decoding the DNA of Ransomware Attacks: Unveiling the Anatomy Behind the Threat By Trellix Advanced Research Center · August 28, 2023 Introduction Ransomware, a malicious software that encrypts valuable data and demands a ransom for its release, has a notorious history marked by its evolution fro...

Understanding Active Directory Attack Paths to Improve Security

Introduced in 1999, Microsoft Active Directory is the default identity and access management service in Windows networks, responsible for assigning and enforcing security policies for all network endpoints. With it, users can access various resources across networks. As things tend to do, times,...

Surviving the 800 Gbps Storm: Gain Insights from Gcore's 2023 DDoS Attack Statistics

Gcore Radar is a quarterly report prepared by Gcore that provides insights into the current state of the DDoS protection market and cybersecurity trends. This report offers you an understanding of the evolving threat landscape and highlights the measures required to protect against attacks...

DevOps threat matrix

The use of DevOps practices, which enable organizations to deliver software more quickly and efficiently, has been on the rise. This agile approach minimizes the time-to-market of new features and bug fixes. More and more companies are implementing DevOps services, each with its own infrastructur...

The Bug Report - March 2023 Edition

The Bug Report – March 2023 Edition By Trellix · April 05, 2023 This story was also written by Kasimir Schulz. It really is bussin, though. Why am I here? Welcome back to the Bug Report, Ides of March edition! Last month was highlighted by glimpses into the past, with a historic attack technique...

2023 Browser Security Report Uncovers Major Browsing Risks and Blind Spots

As a primary working interface, the browser plays a significant role in today's corporate environment. The browser is constantly used by employees to access websites, SaaS applications and internal applications, from both managed and unmanaged devices. A new report published by LayerX, a browser...

DEV-0139 launches targeted attacks against the cryptocurrency industry

Over the past several years, the cryptocurrency market has considerably expanded, gaining the interest of investors and threat actors. Cryptocurrency itself has been used by cybercriminals for their operations, notably for ransom payment in ransomware attacks, but we have also observed threat...

QSC 2022: Qualys’ Threat Research Unit (TRU) – Our Shield Is Your Shield

Day two of QSC profiled the special launch of the Qualys Threat Research Unit, TRU. Taking the audience through a madcap tour of what the threat research unit is doing to provide intelligence and actionable insights into its census was Travis Smith, VP of Qualys Threat Research Unit. He dove deep...

[Security Nation] James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Research

!\Security Nation\ James Kettle of PortSwigger on Advancing Web-Attack Researchhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/10/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod talk to James Kettle of PortSwigger. Their discussion includes research for new web-attack technique...

AWS-Threat-Simulation-and-Detection - Playing Around With Stratus Red Team (Cloud Attack Simulation Tool) And SumoLogic

This repository is a documentation of my adventures with Stratus Red Team - a tool for adversary emulation for the cloud. Stratus Red Team is "Atomic Red Team for the cloud, allowing to emulate offensive attack techniques in a granular and self-contained manner. We run the attacks covered in the...

Cybercrime Getting More Sophisticated: How to Protect Your Business?

Can it happen to us? Are we ready to combat a cyberattack? All over the world, security officers have been fielding these questions from CEOs and the Board of Directors in the wake of large, high-profile cyberattacks. Yes, is the honest answer when attackers have continuously expanded their...

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections

Trellix Global Defenders: LAPSUS$ Data Breaches and Proactive Protections By Taylor Mullins · March 23, 2022 Trellix is continuing to monitor the threat activity related to the LAPSUS$ threat group and their recent breaches of large organizations such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Okta. This...

Mitigation of Supply Chain Risks in Microsoft 365

In this blog we review five attack techniques exploited to compromise MS 365 tenants. Qualys SaaS Detection & Response can be used by both IT and security teams to assess these threats, and then to fix common misconfigurations, hardening supply chain defenses. Last October, news of Microsoft 365 ...

Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response: interesting cases

Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response MDR provides advanced protection against the growing number of threats that bypass automatic security barriers. Its capabilities are backed by a high-professional team of security analysts operating all over the world. Each suspicious security event is...

On-Demand Webinar: Into the Cryptoverse

In the span of a few years, cryptocurrencies have gone from laughingstock and novelty to a serious financial instrument, and a major sector in high-tech. The price of Bitcoin and Ethereum has gone from single dollars to thousands, and they're increasingly in the mainstream. This is undoubtedly a...

Sharing the first SimuLand dataset to expedite research and learn about adversary tradecraft

Last month, we introduced the SimuLand project to help security researchers around the world deploy lab environments to reproduce well-known attack scenarios, actively test detections, and learn more about the underlying behavior and implementation of adversary techniques. Since the release of th...