Banking & Finance March 13, 2024

PixPirate: The Brazilian financial malware you can’t see

10 min read - Malicious software always aims to stay hidden, making itself invisible so the victims can’t detect it. The constantly mutating PixPirate malware has taken that strategy to a new extreme. PixPirate is a sophisticated financial remote access trojan (RAT) malware that…

Fraud Protection December 19, 2023

Web injections are back on the rise: 40+ banks affected by new malware campaign

8 min read - Web injections, a favored technique employed by various banking trojans, have been a persistent threat in the realm of cyberattacks. These malicious injections enable cyber criminals to manipulate data exchanges between users and web browsers, potentially compromising sensitive information. In…

Risk Management September 20, 2023

How IBM secures the U.S. Open

2 min read - More than 15 million tennis fans around the world visited the US Open app and website this year, checking scores, poring over statistics and watching highlights from hundreds of matches over the two weeks of the tournament. To help develop…

Intelligence & Analytics July 24, 2023

What’s new in the 2023 Cost of a Data Breach report

3 min read - Data breach costs continue to grow, according to new research, reaching a record-high global average of $4.45 million, representing a 15% increase over three years. Costs in the healthcare industry continued to top the charts, as the most expensive industry…

Intelligence & Analytics December 21, 2022

When logs are out, enhanced analytics stay in

3 min read - I was talking to an analyst firm the other day. They told me that a lot of organizations purchase a security information and event management (SIEM) solution and then “place it on the shelf.” “Why would they do that?” I…

Zero Trust September 28, 2021

What Is Customer Identity Access Management (CIAM)?

4 min read - Customer identity access management (CIAM) solutions enable companies to manage more than just customer information. CIAM makes it possible to manage data-sharing consent, self-service customer registration, account management, single sign-on and multi-factor authentication (MFA) across channels (mobile, web, apps, etc.).…

Application Security September 27, 2021

What Is a Botnet Attack? A Guide for Security Professionals

5 min read - What is a botnet attack, and how do you stop one? A botnet (derived from ‘robot network’) is a large group of malware-infected internet-connected devices and computers controlled by a single operator. Attackers use these compromised devices to launch large-scale…

Intelligence & Analytics September 14, 2021

10 Open-Source Intelligence Tools (That Actually Work With Your Existing Security Software)

4 min read - Finding the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) that affects your business or agency can help reduce your attack surface. You just have to find it first. Take a look at how OSINT works and how to secure it. According to the…

Intelligence & Analytics June 10, 2020

The Journey to Simplicity: User Experience in Security

5 min read - Keeping an organization secure is no easy task, especially with the explosion in cloud adoption and digital transformation against a backdrop of increasingly dangerous threats and threat actors. We can all recite the challenges that security teams struggle with —…

March 3, 2020

Researchers Estimate Krøøk Vulnerability Could Put a Billion Wi-Fi Devices at Risk

2 min read - Researchers estimate more than a billion devices may be vulnerable to a cyberthreat dubbed Krøøk that can intercept and decrypt Wi-Fi traffic using WPA2 connections.