Talos Takes Ep. #70: Let's put a positive spin on this whole working from home thing for once

By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we're releasing a special series of Talos Takes episodes focused on...

#Rapid7Life Belfast: Why I Joined

Starting a new job at a new company can be daunting, particularly during a global pandemic. With interviews via Zoom, onboarding gone remote, first days at home instead of in a brand new office, and so many other shifts since the onset of the pandemic, switching jobs and companies is probably not...

This Week in Security News - April 9, 2021

Microsoft Teams and Zoom Hacked In $1 Million Competition and Preventing Ransomware While Working from Home...

Why Human Error is #1 Cyber Security Threat to Businesses in 2021

Phishing and Malware Among the major cyber threats, the malware remains a significant danger. The 2017 WannaCry outbreak that cost businesses worldwide up to $4 billion is still in recent memory, and other new strains of malware are discovered on a daily basis. Phishing has also seen a resurgence...

Why Human Error is #1 Cyber Security Threat to Businesses in 2021

Phishing and Malware Among the major cyber threats, the malware remains a significant danger. The 2017 WannaCry outbreak that cost businesses worldwide up to $4 billion is still in recent memory, and other new strains of malware are discovered on a daily basis. Phishing has also seen a resurgence...

Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data

Insider data theft: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministrys COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground. … According to Verlaan, the two suspects worked in DDG call centers, where they had access to official Dutch government...

Cybercriminals want your cloud services accounts, CISA warns

On January 13 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a warning about several recent successful cyberattacks on various organizations’ cloud services. What methods did the attackers use? In the initial phase, the victims were targeted by phishing emails trying to capture...

Brute force attacks increase due to more open RDP ports

While leaving your back door open while you are working from home may be something you do without giving it a second thought, having unnecessary ports open on your computer is a security risk that is sometimes underestimated. Thats because an open port can be subject to brute force attacks. What...

Working From Home. So Far, So Much Learned.

Hello all! I'm Nicole Fitzpatrick, Deputy General Counsel at Akamai. I also sit on the D&I Executive Steering Committee. Normally I'd be in our Cambridge office about now, but like so many of us I am working from home and writing this surrounded by four kids, the dog and my husband not written in...

Housemates. The new Red Team?

You have the VPN set up, you have 2FA, you have a good enforced password policy, firewalls are in place, you even managed to squeeze in some remote training to make employees more aware of potential phishing. You stop, breathe a sigh of relief, and then think… I've no idea who my employees live...

Millions of Brute-Force Attacks Hit Remote Desktop Accounts

A rash of brute-forcing attempts aimed at users of Microsoft’s proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol RDP has come to light, striking millions per week. The attacks are a likely offshoot of cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the unprecedented numbers of employees working from home amid the...

A week in security (March 16 – 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we concluded our series on child identity theft. We also looked into threat actors and campaigns that ride the COVID-19 train, namely the criminal group APT36 and threat actors purporting to be the World Health Organization WHO but instead spreading malware. Lastly...

News Wrap, Coronavirus Edition: WFH Security Woes, Pwn2Own

For the week ended March 20, Threatpost editors break down the top security stories, including: The various cybercriminal activities – malware, phishing and other scams – tapping into the coronavirus pandemic The security risks of businesses working from home due to the virus’ spread Privacy...

Threat Source newsletter (March 19, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We hope everyone is staying home if possible and staying safe. Unfortunately, the bad guys aren’t going anywhere, so we’re still pluggin...

The Coronavirus is Already Taking Effect on Cyber Security– This is How CISOs Should Prepare

The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world’s economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organizations. Cynet has revealed new data, showing that the Coronavirus now has a significant impact on information security and that the crisis is actively exploited by threat actors. In light o...