Researchers at Recorded Future’s Gemini Advisory unit released an advisory revealing the hacking group FIN7’s malicious operations under the guise of a cybersecurity services firm Bastion Secure. Through this phony company, the group is recruiting IT specialists, to conduct...
Russian state-sponsored threat actor groups are known for innovative attack techniques and malware campaigns, ruling the underground darknet markets with various cybercriminal activities. Russian attackers have extended their targets from small organizations to critical infrastructures across the globe. Surprisingly,...
Business cyber resilience programs fail when organizations are attacked, and there are certain reasons for this. Vanessa Vaughn Mathews, founder and Chief Resilience Officer of Asfalis Advisors works with many organizations across different sectors. She has also worked closely...
The comprehensive overview of the present cyberthreat landscape has changed drastically, with threat actors leveraging new hacking techniques more often. Besides, the pandemic gave additional opportunities to hackers in targeting users with various COVID-19 themed attacks. The global crisis...
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in the U.S. announced new policies to control the export of cybersecurity items to regions with despotic practices. Russia and China are the more popular names that are associated with...
The demand for trading sensitive stolen data and other malicious activities has reached new highs across underground dark web marketplaces. The global pandemic and related trends fortified various cybercriminals groups to extend their criminal activities. Today, threat actors trade from...
In order to get back on track from the ongoing pandemic, organizations have to take into account a completely altered reality, which is very different from what we've been taught so far. Many companies have restructured their business continuity...
In tandem with cyberattacks, the emergence of various cybercriminal groups has become rampant in recent times. Several governments across the globe are initiating advanced security measures to cope with evolving threat actor groups. Recently, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
In a span of five months, yet another media company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, has been a victim of a ransomware attack. The threat actors encrypted certain servers and workstations, disrupting the company’s operational networks.
The company implemented its incident response...
Computer manufacturer Acer suffered two security incidents on its servers in Taiwan and India in less than a week. Threat actor group Desorden reportedly announced that it had compromised the Indian servers of Acer, affecting the private information of millions of...
