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Previously, a preliminary report from UpGuard had given Domino’s Pizza’s security posture a “B-grade” rating, based on the security folds implemented by the pizza serving giant. It had scored 713 out of the total 950 points which are awarded...
The risks from cybercriminals exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities have become a continuous threat for organizations, globally. Recently, security experts from Kaspersky found a zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-28310 in Microsoft Windows component known as Desktop Window Manager (DWM). The researchers...
Despite Active Directory’s critical role in today’s IT infrastructure, CISOs rarely list protecting it as a top priority. They assume that policy management and periodic audits are sufficient to cover it, and too often, it fades into the background...
Marcus Fowler is Director of Strategic Threat at Darktrace. Before joining Darktrace in 2019, he spent 15 years at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) developing global cyber operations and technical strategies. He has led cyber efforts with various U.S....
Cybersecurity researchers found threat actors using search engines to lure business professionals into installing a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) inadvertently. According to an analysis from eSentire, threats actors are targeting users who are in search of business PDF forms like...
Earlier in December 2020, the White House had acknowledged that a Russian state-sponsored group known as the Cozy Bear or APT 29 carried out a targeted cyberattack on several U.S. government agencies. The hack successfully compromised the networks of...
Security experts from Malwarebytes discovered a new malware strain used in phishing attacks to install credential stealers and additional malware payloads. Tracked as Saint Bot, the malware poses a wide variety of sophisticated techniques across the infection stages, including...
Cybercriminals often create innovative malware variants and malicious campaigns to steal users’ identities or private information. In most malware-related attacks, threat actors deploy malware via phishing emails and messages, in which malware is downloaded when a victim clicks/opens a...
DDoS attacks are attempts to flood your network resources and disrupt the normal flow of traffic. Think of it as a sudden traffic jam that prevents you from reaching your destination quickly. This means regular visitors can’t visit your...
Risk management is essential to every business. You can’t eliminate risk, but mitigation strategies will help lower the impact and likelihood of catastrophic events such as data breaches. SPONSORED CONTENT By Dan Gordon, DevSecOps Evangelist and Marketing Leader at Traceable.ai. As more...