Sitting in cars with hackers

Are organizations doing enough to protect customer data? The auto industry can teach us a lot about vulnerability management...

Sitting in cars with hackers

Are organizations doing enough to protect customer data? The auto industry can teach us a lot about vulnerability management...

Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security

Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. Why can’t the cryptocurrency industry solve the problem the way the software and hardware industries do, by patching and updating security as flaws are found? Two...

What’s most important for a CISO in API security?

As threats to networks and systems have changed, so have CISOs’ priorities. API security has grown more important with everything as a service and in the cloud. Todays CISOs must ensure they have a plan for protecting APIs. To learn what’s most crucial when protecting APIs, we surveyed CISOs and...

DDoS in Financial Services: What to Know and What to Do

Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry...

Exploits and TrickBot disrupt manufacturing operations

September 2021 saw a huge spike of exploit detections against the manufacturing industry, with a distributed spread between California, Florida, Ohio, and Missouri. This is combined with heavy detections of unseen malware, identified through our AI engine, spiking in May as well as September 2021...

U.S. Government Spending Billions on Cybersecurity

In recent months, the House of Representatives has been hard at work drafting various spending bills for the 2023 fiscal year. While these bills provide funding for a vast array of government programs and agencies, there was one thing that really stands out. Collectively, the bills that are makin...

Demystifying Qbot Malware

Demystifying Qbot Malware By Adithya Chandra and Sushant Kumar Arya · August 24, 2022 Executive summary The Trellix SecOps Team has observed an uptick in the Qbot malware infections in recent months. Qbot has been an active threat for over 14 years and continues to evolve, adopting new infection...

Iranian-linked hacker group victimized Israel’s shipping industry

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Iranian threat group UNC3890 used social engineering lures and a watering hole to jeopardize Israels shipping, government, energy, aviation, and healthcare sectors. This campaign has been running since at least...

Attackers waited until holidays to hit US government

The government industry in the United States dealt with heavy hitting breaches against local, federal, and state government networks, primarily during the first quarter of 2021. Our telemetry revealed a small spike in a generic backdoor detection, known as Backdoor.Agent, during March of 2021,...

Leading the Way in Tampa

If you've been to the Tampa Bay area in recent years, you've probably noticed the significant tech industry expansion taking place in the Channel District. It's an exciting time to be a part of the scene, and Rapid7 is smack in the middle. Being active in the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce is...

APT Lazarus Targets Engineers with macOS Malware

North Korean APT Lazarus is up to its old tricks with a cyberespionage campaign targeting engineers with a fake job posting that attempt to spread macOS malware. The malicious Mac executable used in the campaign targets both Apple and Intel chip-based systems. The campaign, identified by...

Lean Security 101: 3 Tips for Building Your Framework

Cobalt, Lazarus, MageCart, Evil, Revil — cybercrime syndicates spring up so fast it's hard to keep track. Until…they infiltrate your system. But you know what's even more overwhelming than rampant cybercrime? Building your organization's security framework. CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITrust, and...

AsyncRAT C2 Framework: Overview, Technical Analysis & Detection

In this blog we describe the AsyncRAT C2 command & control Framework, which allows attackers to remotely monitor and control other computers over a secure encrypted link. We provide an overview of this threat, a technical analysis, and a method of detecting the malware using Qualys Multi-Vector...

Oil and Gas Cybersecurity: Threats Part 2

In part two of our oil and gas series, we look at more threats that can expose the industry to cyberattacks...

Multi-vendor BIOS Security Vulnerabilities (August 2022) - Lenovo Support US

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Oil and Gas Cybersecurity: Industry Overview Part 1

With geopolitical tensions running high, oil and gas companies may be more susceptible to cyberattacks...

Cybersecurity Issues in the Gaming Industry Portend Metaverse Challenges

The metaverse has greatly expanded the threat landscape. As industries gamify, gaming’s cybersecurity issues become a checklist for the future...

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We spend a lot of time preparing for Blackhat, and as part of putting together content for the show, one of our best, Lurene Grenier, submitted an unexpected piece of content: a poem. Now this poem isn't our regular security research or a shiny piece of corporate correspondence which we would nev...

Microsoft Zero-Days Sold and then Used

Yet another article about cyber-weapons arms manufacturers and their particular supply chain. This one is about Windows and Adobe Reader zero-day exploits sold by an Austrian company named DSIRF. Theres an entire industry devoted to undermining all of our security. It needs to be stopped...