Risk Management February 17, 2023

How Falling Crypto Prices Impacted Cyber Crime

4 min read - Some rare good news in the world of cyber crime trends: Certain crimes declined in 2022 after years of constant rises. Should we credit crypto? Some estimates say that cryptocurrencies have lost $2 trillion in value since November 2021. During…

Software Vulnerabilities January 20, 2023

Dissecting and Exploiting TCP/IP RCE Vulnerability “EvilESP”

10 min read - September’s Patch Tuesday unveiled a critical remote vulnerability in tcpip.sys, CVE-2022-34718. The advisory from Microsoft reads: “An unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted IPv6 packet to a Windows node where IPsec is enabled, which could enable a remote code…

News June 22, 2022

CISA Warns of Russia-Sponsored Threats to Critical Infrastructure

2 min read - Cybersecurity authorities from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K. recently released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning of increased cyber threats related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As per the alert, attacks may occur as a response…

Zero Trust January 19, 2022

Cybersecurity Trends: IBM’s Predictions for 2022

5 min read - After the challenging year of 2021, we look forward to what’s next in 2022. Over the past two years, we’ve seen a tremendous shift in how consumers and businesses accomplish tasks with the continued shift to digital and cloud. As…

Application Security November 3, 2021

An Attack Against Time

3 min read - When Liza Minnelli sang that famous tune, “Money makes the world go around,” she should have added one more word: time. Time makes the world go around. It’s that one agreed-upon part of life that the world shares. From laptops…

News August 23, 2021

DirtyMoe Botnet Returns With Undetectable Threat Profile

2 min read - The malware botnet known as DirtyMoe has been around since at least 2016, but its newest version makes some major changes that put it back in the spotlight. Take a look at how the new version works, what is different…

Advanced Threats July 30, 2020

DDoS Attacks Increase in Size, Frequency and Duration

4 min read - Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in size, frequency and duration. Kaspersky Lab reported a doubling of DDoS attacks in the first quarter of 2020 compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, plus an 80% jump compared with…

May 4, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: Shade Ransomware Authors Release 750K Decryption Keys

3 min read - The authors of Shade ransomware announced that they were releasing 750,000 decryption keys to help victims recover their files for free. Learn what else happened last week in security news.

March 16, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: njRat Spread by Trojanized Hacking Tools

3 min read - Researchers spotted a new campaign in which malicious actors leveraged trojanized versions of popular hacking tools to spread njRat. Read on to learn what else happened last week in security news.

Intelligence & Analytics February 14, 2020

What Is a DDoS Attack?

4 min read - After 20 years, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can still result in critical damage to businesses. Learn more about how to mitigate a DDoS attack on your corporate network.