Draw the Line: Smart Consolidation or Bloated Platformization?

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Click right here to hear it all on Smart Consolidation vs Platformization. I often wonder…have CIS...

Is CTEM Just Another Buzzword or Actually Useful?

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Click right here to hear it all! Let's face it - cybersecurity teams are drowning in tools,...

ExCobalt’s GoRed the Silent Infiltrator of Russian Sectors

...

Summary of Vulnerabilities, Actors & Attacks: November 2023

...

Attackers Exploit Brazil’s PIX System with GoPIX Malware Campaign

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The popularity of Brazils PIX payment system has attracted cybercriminals using GoPIX malware, targeting users searching for "WhatsApp web" with malicious ads. This poses a threat to users financial and...

Deciphering Mirai’s Next Chapter: the Strategies of the Latest Players

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The realm of cybersecurity witnessed the rise of formidable botnet variants stemming from the notorious Mirai source code. Prominent among them are hailBot, kiraiBot, and catDDoS, showcasing heightened...

CustomerLoader Disseminating Diverse Malware Payloads

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A covert .NET loader, known as CustomerLoader, was specifically designed to facilitate the retrieval, deciphering, and activation of subsequent payloads. Throughout the early days of June 2023, various...

Mirai Botnet Exploits Multiple Flaws in the Latest Campaign

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new variant of the Mirai botnet is actively exploiting vulnerabilities in various devices, aiming to create botnets and launch DDoS attacks. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow...

LockBit Ransomware Evolving Tactics and Pervasive Impact in 2023

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary LockBit ransomware is a highly impactful Ransomware-as-a-Service RaaS variant that targets critical sectors globally. Since 2020, victims in the US alone have paid around $91 million in ransom payments...

Immediate Threat Reduction for a Telecom Company

In this video, Anand Choudha, CEO at Hive Pro, and Jeelan Poola, CPO at Hive Pro, introduce the HivePro Uni5 Threat Exposure Management Platform. HivePro Uni...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 17 to 23 April 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, they identified a total of ten attacks that were executed...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 27 March to 2 April 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, they identified a total of Nine attacks that were executed...

SmoothOperator Campaign Trojanizes 3CXDesktopApp

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The 3CX desktop app trojanized via a multi-stage supply attack chain in the SmoothOperator campaign. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow HiveForce Labs on LinkedIn...

Ice Breaker a Looming Threat on the Gaming Industry

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Online gaming and gambling companies have been targeted by hackers using unseen backdoors. The attacks are grouped together and referred to as "Ice Breaker." The intrusions make use of smart social...

BlackMagic Ransomware disrupts the Israeli logistics sector

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The latest ransomware entity, known as "BlackMagic" has emerged. This gang targets its victims using a double extortion approach in which it initially exfiltrates the victims data, followed by encryption...

HavanaCrypt ransomware spreads through fake google updates

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary HavanaCrypt is a new ransomware that distinguishes itself as a Google software update. It evades detection using a Microsoft web hosting service IP address as the command and control C&C server...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 20 June – 26 June 2022

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 413 14 4 121 19 33 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The last week of June 2022 witnessed the discovery of 413 vulnerabilities out of which ...

Monthly Threat Digest: February 2022

...

Vulnerability Remediation: The Complete Guide to Fixing Security Weaknesses

Your scanners find thousands of vulnerabilities every cycle. Your team triages, assigns, and patches what they can. But weeks later, the same critical CVEs still sit open, SLAs blow past their deadlines, and the backlog keeps growing. The problem is rarely a lack of detection. It is a broken...

The Best Vulnerability Scanning Tools for 2026: A Complete Guide

Your vulnerability scanner found 14,000 issues last quarter. Your team patched 800. The other 13,200 are sitting in a spreadsheet that nobody opens anymore. This is the reality for most security teams. The scanner works. It finds vulnerabilities. But without context, prioritization, or a clear pa...

The 5 Stages of a CTEM Cybersecurity Program

To beat an attacker, you have to think like one. An adversary doesn't care about your compliance reports or internal severity ratings. They care about one thing: finding an exploitable path to your critical assets. So why are we still prioritizing based on theoretical scores? A modern security...

Event-Driven Vulnerability Exposure Management (VEM): Why you should move beyond Human Triggers

& The traditional approach to vulnerability management has long followed a familiar pattern: security teams log into their vulnerability management platforms, run scans, generate reports, analyze findings, and then prioritize remediation efforts. Rinse and repeat. While this on-demand model has...

5 Best Qualys Replacement Solutions Reviewed

Knowing you have vulnerabilities is one thing; knowing if your defenses can actually stop an attack is another. Traditional vulnerability scanners tell you where the holes are, but they don't tell you if your security controls are configured correctly or if they'll perform under pressure. This is...

Rapid7 vs. Hive Pro: A Head-to-Head Comparison

Threat intelligence and Business context are the secret sauces that transform vulnerability management from a frantic game of whack-a-mole into a strategic, focused risk management and security practice. Without it, you’re just staring at a massive list of vulnerabilities with little to no contex...

What Is Hive Pro’s End-to-End CTEM Solution?

The difference between a good security program and a great one often comes down to context. Without it, a list of 10,000 vulnerabilities is just a list. But when you can see that three of those vulnerabilities are being actively exploited by a threat group targeting your industry, your priorities...

What is Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS)? A Guide

If you’re on a vulnerability management team, you’re likely drowning in a sea of CVEs. Your scanners produce massive lists of potential weaknesses, but with limited time and resources, which ones do you fix first? A high CVSS score doesn't always translate to real-world risk. You need context to...

How BAS Improves Vulnerability Management (And Why)

A vulnerability without context is just a data point. A medium-severity flaw might seem like a low priority, but what if you knew it was being actively used in a new ransomware campaign targeting your industry? This is why threat intelligence is so crucial. The answer to how does BAS improve...

The 5 Stages of Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Attackers don’t care about your compliance reports or the sheer number of vulnerabilities you have. They look for a single, exploitable path to your most valuable assets. To defend effectively, you need to see your organization through their eyes. This is the core principle behind continuous thre...

Inside Hive Pro: A Complete Platform Review

Knowing you have a vulnerability is one thing; knowing if you’re truly exposed is another. A critical vulnerability might exist on a server, but can an attacker actually reach it? Will your firewall block the attempt? Will your EDR detect the payload? Traditional vulnerability management can't...

A Guide to Exposure Management Cybersecurity Best Practices

Attackers don't think in terms of CVE scores. They look for the path of least resistance, whether it's a forgotten server, a misconfigured cloud bucket, or an exposed API. While your team is busy prioritizing a long list of software flaws, a real threat could be exploiting a simple oversight that...

Strategic Benefits of Vulnerability Prioritization

Think of your security team as the staff in a hospital emergency room. They can't treat every patient at once, so they perform triage, focusing on the most critical cases first to save lives. Vulnerability prioritization is security triage. Your organization has a seemingly endless list of...

The 7 Best Continuous Threat Exposure Management Tools

If your security team is drowning in a sea of "critical" alerts from your vulnerability scanner, you know the feeling of being busy without being effective. You spend all your time triaging and patching, but you never feel like you're actually ahead of the attackers. This is the core problem that...

Your Guide to Risk-Based Vulnerability Management

Communicating security needs to leadership can be a challenge when you’re just presenting a long list of technical flaws. The conversation shifts when you can talk about risk in clear business terms. Instead of saying "we have 500 critical vulnerabilities," you can say "we have 15 vulnerabilities...

The 5-Step Exposure Remediation Automation Process

Security teams are often buried under a mountain of vulnerability alerts. The daily reality is a constant scramble to patch the most critical issues, leaving a massive backlog of lower-priority—but still dangerous—exposures. This reactive cycle is exhausting and unsustainable. It’s like trying to...

What Is Attack Surface Mapping And Why It’s Critical To your Security Program

You might think an attack surface mapper is just another name for a vulnerability scanner, but they serve two very different purposes. A scanner tests the assets you already know about for specific weaknesses. An attack surface mapper answers a more fundamental question: What assets do I even hav...

Houston CISO Meetup: The Strategic Shift from Mass Vulnerability Scanning to Proactive Exposure Reduction

Key takeaways from a CISO dinner with Al Lindseth and Hive Pro's Critt Golden. If you were one of the many CISO’s, CIO’s or cybersecurity leaders who joined our Threat Exposure Management dinner at Del Frisco’s Steak House in Houston yesterday, thank you for joining an oversold event! If you didn...

Scattered Spider’s Strategic Hunt: Is Your Industry Next?

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Introduction In April 2025, a single phone call didn’t just ‘help crash’ Marks & Spencer’s...

The Psychology of Exposure: Why Security Teams Ignore What’s Right in Front of Them

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Your security team sees everything and notices nothing. Drowning in alerts, CVEs, dashboards, risk...

Control Validation: The Missing Link in Security Assurance

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Click right here to hear it all on CAASM & CDMB Inefficiencies! You've got the prettiest security...

No CWE? No Excuse. Why Classification Gaps Are a Hacker’s Dream

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Click right here to hear it all on CAASM & CDMB Inefficiencies! In cybersecurity, we obsess over...

CAASM in Action: What It Really Looks Like When It Works

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Click right here to hear it all on CAASM & CDMB Inefficiencies! You’ve heard the promises. The...

You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See: The Real Pain CAASM Solves

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Click right here to hear it all! Let’s cut through the marketing haze for a moment. There’s a reas...

Mekotio Trojan Targets the Latin American Financial Sector

...

Microsoft MSHTML Flaw the Silent Doorway for MerkSpy Malware

...

regreSSHion: Exploiting Signal Handler Race Condition in OpenSSH

...

US Defense & NGOs fall prey to Russian hackers

Threat Level Actors Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Russian state-sponsored group Calisto is linked to spoofing Microsoft login pages of Global Ordnance, a legitimate U.S. military weapons and hardware supplier. According to some, the themed domains are...

CTEM for Telecom Companies

Protect Network Infrastructure. Prevent Service Disruption. Secure 5G, IoT, and Subscriber Data. Telecommunications companies operate the most interconnected infrastructure on the planet. Your networks carry voice, data, and critical services for millions of subscribers, enterprises, and governme...

The Complete Vulnerability Management Lifecycle: A 6-Stage Framework for Proactive Security

The National Vulnerability Database adds over 2,000 new CVEs every month. No security team can patch them all, and trying to do so is a fast track to burnout. The organizations that stay ahead of breaches aren't the ones that scan the most. They're the ones that follow a structured, repeatable...

What Is Threat Hunting? A Complete Guide for Security Teams

What Is Threat Hunting? A Complete Guide for Security Teams Security tools catch a lot. They do not catch everything. Automated detection systems rely on known signatures, predefined rules, and behavioral baselines. Sophisticated adversaries know this and design their operations to slip through t...

What Is Threat Exposure Management? A Complete Guide

Most security teams can tell you how many vulnerabilities they found last quarter. Very few can tell you which of those vulnerabilities an attacker could actually exploit to breach a critical system. That gap between "found" and "actually dangerous" is the problem threat exposure management was...