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Cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting the Cobalt Strike testing toolkit to carry out ransomware campaigns, says Cisco Talos Incident Response.

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Attacks can tuck in between security silos created as a result of disconnected solution alerts and gaps during security triaging and attack investigations. As presented in the IDC InfoBrief, 23 percent of companies say that their security teams spend more time maintaining and managing security tools instead of conducting actual security investigations.

These three components together provide what Cynet calls Autonomous Breach Protection - essentially breach protection on auto-pilot. Cynet automates many tasks associated with threat detection response and cross-environment remediation including infected hosts, compromised user accounts, malicious processes and attacker-controlled network traffic.

This makes sense when you consider that more meetings require passwords or passcodes, to avoid these sorts of hijackings, thus making rogue participants, particularly in a classroom setting, a more common threat. "Our findings indicate that the vast majority of calls for zoombombing are not made by attackers stumbling upon meeting invitations or bruteforcing their meeting ID, but rather by insiders who have legitimate access to these meetings, particularly students in high school and college classes," the researchers said.

These three components together provide what Cynet calls Autonomous Breach Protection - essentially breach protection on auto-pilot. Response Automation Cynet automates many tasks associated with threat detection response and cross-environment remediation, including infected hosts, compromised user accounts, malicious processes, and attacker-controlled network traffic.

Insider threats can take many forms, from the absent-minded employee failing to follow basic security protocols, to the malicious insider, intentionally seeking to harm your organization. Insider threats can be loosely split into two categories - negligent and malicious.

Mobile rootkits, virtual home invasions of well-known public figures and Bluetooth Low Energy attacks are among the other attack types to prepare for in the next year. These new methods, in tandem with a surge in counter IR, destructive attacks, lateral movement and island hopping, make for a perilous threat landscape.

Scripts can also be used for malicious purposes, and malicious scripts are unlikely to be detected or blocked by the average antimalware solution. While Emotet is one example of threat that uses scripts as part of its evasive strategy, there are many other types of script-based evasion techniques organizations need to be aware of to keep their systems secure.

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