SaaS in the Real World: How Global Food Chains Can Secure Their Digital Dish

The Quick Serve Restaurant QSR industry is built on consistency and shared resources. National chains like McDonald's and regional ones like Cracker Barrel grow faster by reusing the same business model, decor, and menu, with little change from one location to the next. QSR technology stacks mirr...

A week in security (May 16 – 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Fake reCAPTCHA forms dupe users via compromised WordPress sites How COVID-19 fuelled a surge in malware Why MRG-Effitas matters to SMBs “Look what I found here” phish targets Facebook users AirTag stalking: What is it, and how can I avoid it? Long lost @ symbol get...

How COVID-19 fuelled a surge in malware

2021 saw a massive surge in detections of malware, adware, and Potentially Unwanted Programs PUPs. It didnt matter what the computers were used for or what operating system they ran—across business and home computers, on Windows and on Mac, detections went up, enormously. Detections of malware on...

5 security lessons from 18 months of working from home

A little more than 20 months ago, many people around the world were asked or instructed to work from home to help slow the spread of COVID-19. It caused a seismic change to the way we all do business. Now, our latest research reveals how IT decision makers security concerns have been changed by...

SANS 2021 Threat Hunting Survey: How Organizations' Security Postures Have Evolved in the New Normal

It's that time of year once again: The SANS Institute — the most trusted resource for cybersecurity research — has conducted its sixth annual Threat Hunting Survey, sponsored by Rapid7. The goal of this survey is to better understand the current threat hunting landscape and the benefits provided ...

Platform Update: Akamai Boosts Edge Application Power, Expanding Possibilities for Developers

Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update -- two days of new capabilities and innovations across our edge technology and security product portfolios. Today, we look at our edge technology products, which include edge computing, edge delivery CDN, and other complementary products and services that hel...

Fighting Back in 2021: 4 Best Practices for Security Teams

“Attacks these days don’t have a natural beginning or ending. For an adversary, every attack is an opportunity to learn something that can then be used against additional organizations.” -- Greg Foss, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist, VMware Security Business Unit. Attackers versus defenders will...

2021 Cybersecurity Outlook: Attackers vs. Defenders

COVID-19, One Year Later 2020 was undoubtedly a defining year for cybersecurity – a year that ended with the SolarWinds breach, which infiltrated US government agencies and organizations at a scale not seen in recent history. For cybersecurity professionals, the nature of this attack – a...

Joker’s Stash Carding Market to Call it Quits

Jokers Stash, by some accounts the largest underground shop for selling stolen credit card and identity data, says its closing up shop effective mid-February 2021. The announcement came on the heels of a turbulent year for the major cybercrime store, and just weeks after U.S. and European...

Cyberattacks on Healthcare Spike 45% Since November

As COVID-19 ravages international healthcare systems, cybercriminals have decided to leverage the increasingly dire circumstances to squeeze a few bucks out of the human suffering. According to new findings from Check Point Software, healthcare organizations have seen a 45-percent increase in...

Ransomware and IP Theft: Top COVID-19 Healthcare Security Scares

Healthcare cybersecurity threats have been under the spotlight this past year, in particular with the rise of COVID-19 and the budgetary and resource strains that has put on hospitals. Beau Woods, a Cyber Safety Innovation Fellow with the Atlantic Council, founder and CEO of Stratigos Security an...

Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020

2020 is shaping up to be a banner year for software vulnerabilities, leaving security professionals drowning in a veritable sea of patching, reporting and looming attacks, many of which they can’t even see. A trio of recent reports tracking software vulnerabilities over the past year underscore t...

Insider Report: Healthcare Security Woes Balloon in COVID-Era

In 2020, the healthcare industry began a massive shift, as legacy cybersecurity issues merged with new security challenges spurred on by the spread of COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, the medical arena wrestled with major cybersecurity challenges, including insecure medical devices, protecting...

Two months of Black Fridays?

Black Friday began in the U.S. as a way to funnel Thanksgiving holiday free time into a day of wanton gift shopping. It later spread globally as a retailer promotional blitz to kick off the holiday shopping season. Enter: Black Friday, 2020 style. In early September, many retailers, including Hom...

2021 Healthcare Cybersecurity Priorities: Experts Weigh In

Healthcare cybersecurity is in triage mode. As systems are stretched to the limits by COVID-19 and technology becomes an essential part of everyday patient interactions, hospital and healthcare IT departments have been left to figure out how to make it all work together, safely and securely. Most...

Black Friday 2020: How to shop safely online

Black Friday 2020 promises to be somewhat different from years gone by thanks to COVID-19. The annual surge of in-store chaos and trolley dashes isn’t compatible with social distancing, and so retailers will be looking to drive shoppers online. Friday 27th November is when things kick off this...

Online Shoppers Undeterred by COVID as Holiday Shopping Season Shifts Earlier

Akamai-Commissioned Survey Hints at Significant Business Consequences If Online Retail Experiences Do Not Meet Consumer Expectations Holiday shoppers are overcoming worries and restrictions and easily adapting to new shopping norms as the COVID-19 pandemic has invaded our lives and made us...

Preparing for Holiday Traffic During COVID-19

We are headed into an unprecedented holiday season as COVID-19 continues to impact the world. For many, this means changing traditions and celebrating without family nearby. For Akamai, it means preparing to support our customers in a holiday commerce season of opportunities and challenges like...

Halloween News Wrap: Zombie Bugs, Hospital Deaths and Other Scary Cyberattack Stories

This Halloween week, Threatpost editors discuss the spookiest security stories, including: A wave of ransomware attacks targeting a number of hospitals, sparking worries about healthcare security and the impact on patients during COVID-19 “Zombie” vulnerabilities – including Zerologon and SMBGhos...

How the Crypto Challenge as Action Helped a Major Airline Reduce False Positives While Protecting the Customer Experience

Challenges of Bot Detection: Keeping Defenses High Without Triggering False Positives Identifying bots is important and complicated work. Keeping up with ever-changing bot technologies and attack strategies requires deep knowledge and continuous threat research. The outbreak of the COVID-19...