Tag: Cybercrime

Despite the rise in vulnerability reporting, cryptojacking attacks and attacks on critical infrastructure, one threat trend has been on the decline.

Some of the latest website security threats originate from thriving dark web marketplaces for TLS/SSL certificates, which often come packaged with other cybercrime services.

X-Force researchers observed attackers targeting multinational corporations in various sectors using malicious scripts to automate attacks on misconfigured servers.

Digital attackers used more than a dozen web servers to host 10 malware families and distributed those threats using phishing emails.

Shared security culture is now critical for organizations to prevent IT burnout and respond to emerging threats. But what does this look like in practice?

A remote overlay malware that is attacking Latin American banks met its match in a solution built from behavioral biometrics, deep research, reverse engineering and finely tuned threat modeling.

If we focus on the future at the expense of performing risk assessments to maintain defenses against existing threats, we will always be one step behind attackers.

In 2018, IBM X-Force researchers observed organized cybercrime groups collaborating, rather than competing over turf or even attacking each other, for the first time.

Limor Kessem studied microbiology in school and planned to open a naturopathy clinic. She's now one of IBM Security's top cyber intelligence experts and a dedicated role model for women in security.

The X-Force research team investigated the IcedID Trojan's two-step injection attack that enables it to steal access credentials and payment card data from e-commerce customers in North America.