Risk Management June 2, 2023

Detecting insider threats: Leverage user behavior analytics

3 min read - Employees often play an unwitting role in many security incidents, from accidental data breaches to intentional malicious attacks. Unfortunately, most organizations don’t have the right protocols and processes to identify potential risks posed by their workforce. Based on a survey…

Intelligence & Analytics May 19, 2021

User Behavior Analytics: What It Is and How It Advances Digital Security

4 min read - Organizations are struggling to pinpoint threats that come from real user accounts. Take insider threats, as an example. In a 2020 report, 68% of IT and security experts felt their employers were somewhat or very at risk to insider attacks. Over…

Intelligence & Analytics May 6, 2021

Zero Trust and Insider Threats: Was Brutus the Original Bad Actor?

2 min read - Insider threats have been a problem for as long as there have been insiders. What’s changed over time? Well, for one, Brutus and his conspirators didn’t exactly leave a trail of logs and flows when they plotted against Julius Caesar…

Advanced Threats July 17, 2020

#TwitterHack: Power, Privilege and Pandemic

4 min read - On Wednesday, July 15, the Twitterverse was ablaze with what Twitter itself has described as a “coordinated social engineering attack” that was launched at around 4pm ET. The outcome of this breach was compromised Twitter accounts of many well-known people…

CISO July 16, 2020

What Are Insider Threats and How Can You Mitigate Them?

5 min read - There are several types of insider threats that organizations should be aware of and each presents different symptoms for security teams to diagnose.

April 13, 2020

Weekly Security News Roundup: Dark_Nexus Vies for Supremacy on Compromised Machines

3 min read - A new IoT botnet called "dark_nexus" drew researchers' attention to its efforts to establish and maintain dominance on a compromised machine. Learn what else happened last week in security news.

Healthcare March 11, 2020

Safeguarding Healthcare for the Future With Zero Trust Security

5 min read - A Zero Trust security model can help healthcare organizations provision access in a more effective manner by focusing on data, workloads and identity.

Threat Intelligence March 3, 2020

State of the Phish: IBM X-Force Reveals Current Phishing Attack Trends

6 min read - Phishing has long been an infection vector of choice for threat actors, and for good reason — it is relatively easy, inexpensive and consistently successful.

Artificial Intelligence February 4, 2020

How Deepfakes Will Make Us Question Everything in 2020

4 min read - If anyone can claim that what they said was the result of a deepfake, how can we distinguish the truth anymore?

December 16, 2019

BuleHero Botnet Uses Multiple Lateral Movement Modules to Drop XMRig Miner, Gh0st RAT

2 min read - The BuleHero botnet was seen using multiple modules to move laterally on a network and increase the spread of its two payloads, the XMRig miner and the Gh0st remote-access Trojan (RAT).