Security News

Is your identity safe? Exploring the gaps in threat protection
2023-09-27 04:00

A recent study from Silverfort has identified the identity attack surface as today's most substantial weakness in cybersecurity resilience. Traditional approaches, such as MFA and PAM, have notable limitations that can lead to the exploitation of stolen credentials.

Threat Report: High Tech Industry targeted the most with 46% of attack traffic tagged by NLX
2023-09-26 10:32

How To Use This Report Enhance situational awareness of techniques used by threat actors Identify potential attacks targeting your industry Gain insights to help improve and accelerate your...

Are developers giving enough thought to prompt injection threats when building code?
2023-09-26 05:30

This overlooked vulnerability is no trivial matter, and it raises the critical question: Are we doing enough to insulate our code and applications from the risks of prompt injection? Prompt injection is an insidious technique where attackers introduce malicious commands into the free text input that controls an LLM. By doing so, they can force the model into performing unintended and malicious actions.

IT workers see generative AI as a serious threat to their profession
2023-09-26 03:00

While many IT workers see the productivity benefits of AI, 56% believe it benefits employers more than employees, according to Ivanti. 63% are concerned generative AI tools might take their job in the next five years compared to 44% of office workers.

Hands-on threat simulations: empower cybersecurity teams to confidently combat threats
2023-09-25 05:00

Security teams need easily replicable techniques to emulate threat scenarios to test their defense skills against the skill level of cyber-attackers. At least yearly, there should be a full red team assessment; the red team is made up of offensive security professionals whose role is to exploit the company's vulnerabilities and overcome cybersecurity controls.

Mysterious 'Sandman' Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents
2023-09-21 19:55

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunic koation providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian...

Financially Motivated UNC3944 Threat Actor Shifts Focus to Ransomware Attacks
2023-09-18 03:16

The financially motivated threat actor known as UNC3944 is pivoting to ransomware deployment as part of an expansion to its monetization strategies, Mandiant has revealed. "UNC3944 has demonstrated a stronger focus on stealing large amounts of sensitive data for extortion purposes and they appear to understand Western business practices, possibly due to the geographical composition of the group," the threat intelligence firm said.

The Interdependence between Automated Threat Intelligence Collection and Humans
2023-09-15 11:13

Proactive threat intelligence was not automated threat intelligence, however. Automated threat intelligence helped teams operate more efficiently, but it presented a novel challenge: How to manage and make sense of all the data that automated threat intelligence processes produced.

Webinar: Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) – Rips in Your Identity Fabric
2023-09-13 11:46

As organizations integrate more SaaS applications into their workflows, they inadvertently open the door to a new era of security threats. Historically, SaaS security was about managing misconfigurations.

Emerging threat: AI-powered social engineering
2023-09-06 04:30

Deepfake videos use AI and deep learning techniques to create highly realistic but fake or fabricated content. The most effective evaluation of deepfake technology can be made when watching videos in which the "Deepfaked" person is a celebrity or individual whom the viewer is visually familiar with.