About Anomalous Data Transfer detection in InsightIDR

By Shivangi Pandey Shivangi is a Senior Product Manager for D&R at Rapid7. Data exfiltration is an unauthorized movement or transfer of data occurring on an organization’s network. This can occur when a malicious actor gains access to a corporation’s network with the intention of stealing or...

The vulnerability of Symantec Endpoint Protection’s antivirus software lies in its ability to bypass security elements, allowing attackers to circumvent password protection for security policy import/export.

The vulnerability of the Symantec Endpoint Protection antivirus software is related to the possibility of bypassing security elements. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to circumvent password protection for security policy import/export...

Security feature bypass

Symantec Endpoint Protection Windows agent, prior to 14.3 RU6/14.3 RU5 Patch 1, may be susceptible to a Security Control Bypass vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can potentially allow a threat actor to circumvent existing security controls. This CVE applies narrowly to the Client User...

Token tactics: How to prevent, detect, and respond to cloud token theft

As organizations increase their coverage of multifactor authentication MFA, threat actors have begun to move to more sophisticated techniques to allow them to compromise corporate resources without needing to satisfy MFA. Recently, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART has seen an increa...

DEV-0832 (Vice Society) opportunistic ransomware campaigns impacting US education sector

In recent months, Microsoft has detected active ransomware and extortion campaigns impacting the global education sector, particularly in the US, by a threat actor we track as DEV-0832, also known as Vice Society. Shifting ransomware payloads over time from BlackCat, QuantumLocker, and Zeppelin,...

How businesses are gaining integrated data protection with Microsoft Purview

Currently, our interconnected world is creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.1 Every purchase made, every email sent, every contract signed: all of it gets shared, accessed, and stored. We take it on faith that organizations are doing all this safely; however, data loss is becoming a...

Securing Applications in a Multicloud World

Widespread adoption of multicloud architecture presents challenges in securing applications. Learn about the benefits of deploying security controls on the edge...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Prepare Your Organization for Compliance with the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with bad actors accelerating their nefarious exfiltration of valuable and confidential data from financial institutions, Federal agencies, healthcare organizations, and more. According to an IBM study, the Financial Services industry saw an increase in the cost of da...

L2 network security controls can be bypassed using VLAN 0 stacking and/or 802.3 headers

Overview Layer-2 L2 network security controls provided by various devices, such as switches, routers, and operating systems, can be bypassed by stacking Ethernet protocol headers. An attacker can send crafted packets through vulnerable devices to cause Denial-of-service DoS or to perform a...

SaaS Eliminates Barriers to Applying Security Controls to Your Entire AWS and Azure Data Repository

Businesses today widely regard data as “the new oil,” the most valuable resource on earth. At the same time, we are in the midst of the most dynamic IT landscape in history which is increasing the risk to this most valuable asset. Organizations, without sufficiently skilled staff to effectively...

The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 1

At Microsoft, we define threat hunting as the practice of actively looking for cyberthreats that have covertly or not so covertly penetrated an environment. This involves looking beyond the known alerts or malicious threats to discover new potential threats and vulnerabilities. Why do incident...

CVE-2022-26858

Dell BIOS versions contain an Improper Authentication vulnerability. A locally authenticated malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious input to an SMI in order to bypass security controls...

Authentication flaw

Dell BIOS versions contain an Improper Authentication vulnerability. A locally authenticated malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious input to an SMI in order to bypass security controls...

CVE-2022-26858

Dell BIOS versions contain an Improper Authentication vulnerability. A locally authenticated malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious input to an SMI in order to bypass security controls...

What Is Your Security Team Profile? Prevention, Detection, or Risk Management

Not all security teams are born equal. Each organization has a different objective. In cybersecurity, adopting a proactive approach is not just a buzzword. It actually is what makes the difference between staying behind attackers and getting ahead of them. And the solutions to do that do exist!...

A CISO's Ultimate Security Validation Checklist

If you're heading out of the office on a well-deserved vacation, are you certain the security controls you have in place will let you rest easy while you're away? More importantly – do you have the right action plan in place for a seamless return? Whether you're on the way out of – or back to – t...

USN-5563-1: http-parser vulnerability

It was discovered that http-parser incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass security controls or gain unauthorized access to sensitive data...

Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security

A class action lawsuit has been filed against big-three consumer credit bureau Experian over reports that the company did little to prevent identity thieves from hijacking consumer accounts. The legal filing cites liberally from an investigation KrebsOnSecurity published in July, which found that...

CVE-2022-30315

CVE-2022-30315 affects Honeywell Experion PKS Safety Manager (SM and FSC) through 2022-05-06. The vulnerability stems from the unauthenticated Safety Builder protocol used to download control logic (block-by-block FLD code) to the CPU module, with no cryptographic authentication or memory protect...