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).

Endpoint November 12, 2019

How to Protect Your Organization From Evolving Phishing Attacks

4 min read - Protecting against evolving phishing attacks requires robust security awareness training for users and some help from technologies like artificial intelligence and ahead-of-threat detection.