Tag: X-Force

Per X-Force IRIS, at least 22 percent of reported campaigns in April 2019 delivered macro malware. What methods can defenders leverage to help detect malicious macro activity?

In an operation crowned "unprecedented," Europol and the DOJ joined forces and successfully dismantled what was left of the GozNym cybercrime gang that attempted to steal well over $100 million.

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

Researchers published two pieces of exploit code that can allow anyone to interact with an organization's SAP enterprise resource planning platform and perform unauthorized transactions.

There is some confusion in cybersecurity as to the difference between penetration testing and red teaming. Since all businesses have vastly different security needs, the distinction is critical.

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

IBM X-Force researchers observed cybercriminals engaging in three tax-themed malware campaigns.

IBM X-Force found a zero-day buffer overflow vulnerability in one of the most common routers on the market that could let malicious third parties take control of the device from a remote location.

IBM X-Force analyzed modifications made to IcedID that help the banking Trojan act more stealthily on infected devices.

A capture the flag exercise gives security professionals and business leaders an opportunity to drill their cybersecurity response skills.