Tag: incident response
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Do CISOs need to rethink service provider risk?
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, compliance, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, framework, governance, group, guide, incident, incident response, ISO-27001, penetration-testing, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, soc, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityShould risk assessment be about questionnaires or conversation?: David Stockdale, director of cybersecurity at the University of Queensland (UQ), needs services providers to understand the make-up and complexity of a higher education institution.”Because of the size and research intensity of the university, we tend to build a lot in-house. Where we do use service providers,…
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Risiken bei der Wiederherstellung nach Ransomware-Angriffen
Tags: alphv, authentication, backup, ceo, ciso, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, DSGVO, encryption, extortion, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, lockbit, mfa, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, tool, updateDie Zahlung des Lösegelds nach einer Ransomware-Attacke ist keine Garantie für eine reibungslose oder gar erfolgreiche Wiederherstellung der Daten.Zwei von fünf Unternehmen, die Cyberkriminellen für die Entschlüsselung von Ransomware bezahlen, können ihre Daten nicht wiederherstellen. Das hat eine weltweite Umfrage des Versicherungsanbieters Hiscox unter 1.000 mittelständischen Unternehmen ergeben.Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Ransomware nach wie vor…
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Risiken bei der Wiederherstellung nach Ransomware-Angriffen
Tags: alphv, authentication, backup, ceo, ciso, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, DSGVO, encryption, extortion, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, lockbit, mfa, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, tool, updateDie Zahlung des Lösegelds nach einer Ransomware-Attacke ist keine Garantie für eine reibungslose oder gar erfolgreiche Wiederherstellung der Daten.Zwei von fünf Unternehmen, die Cyberkriminellen für die Entschlüsselung von Ransomware bezahlen, können ihre Daten nicht wiederherstellen. Das hat eine weltweite Umfrage des Versicherungsanbieters Hiscox unter 1.000 mittelständischen Unternehmen ergeben.Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Ransomware nach wie vor…
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Top 10 Best Digital Forensics And Incident Response (DFIR) Firms in 2025
In 2025, the complexity of cyberattacks demands more than just a quick fix; it requires a deep dive into the digital footprint left by adversaries and a methodical approach to recovery. For organizations facing such threats, partnering with the Best DFIR Companies is crucial. These specialized firms offer a comprehensive suite of services, from initial…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Top Advice for Detecting and Preventing AI Attacks, and for Securing AI Systems
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, chatgpt, china, ciso, cloud, computing, container, control, credentials, crime, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, email, exploit, extortion, finance, flaw, framework, fraud, google, governance, government, group, guide, hacker, hacking, healthcare, iam, identity, incident response, intelligence, LLM, malicious, malware, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, organized, phishing, ransom, risk, risk-management, russia, sans, scam, service, skills, soc, strategy, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustAs organizations eagerly adopt AI, cybersecurity teams are racing to protect these new systems. In this special edition of the Cybersecurity Snapshot, we round up some of the best recent guidance on how to fend off AI attacks, and on how to safeguard your AI systems. Key takeaways Developers are getting new playbooks from groups…
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Top 10 Best Security Operations Center (SOC) as a Service Providers in 2025
In 2025, the digital landscape is more complex and perilous than ever. Organizations face an unrelenting barrage of sophisticated cyber threats, from advanced ransomware campaigns to nation-state-backed attacks. As a result, many are turning to SOC as a Service Providers to gain around-the-clock security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response without the overhead of building…
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Ransomware recovery perils: 40% of paying victims still lose their data
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, business, ceo, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, extortion, finance, GDPR, group, incident response, insurance, leak, mfa, privacy, ransom, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, threat, updateAdditional recovery pressures: Modern ransomware attacks now routinely involve double or triple extortion whereby attackers threaten to leak stolen data or launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks even after payment.This fundamentally changes the calculus on what victims can expect in cases where they decide to make a ransomware payment, which more often than not…
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Ransomware recovery perils: 40% of paying victims still lose their data
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, business, ceo, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, extortion, finance, GDPR, group, incident response, insurance, leak, mfa, privacy, ransom, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, threat, updateAdditional recovery pressures: Modern ransomware attacks now routinely involve double or triple extortion whereby attackers threaten to leak stolen data or launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks even after payment.This fundamentally changes the calculus on what victims can expect in cases where they decide to make a ransomware payment, which more often than not…
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IR Trends Q3 2025: ToolShell attacks dominate, highlighting criticality of segmentation and rapid response
Cisco Talos Incident Response observed a surge in attacks exploiting public-facing applications, mainly via ToolShell targeting SharePoint, for initial access, with post-exploitation phishing and evolving ransomware tactics also persisting this quarter. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/ir-trends-q3-2025/
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IR Trends Q3 2025: ToolShell attacks dominate, highlighting criticality of segmentation and rapid response
Cisco Talos Incident Response observed a surge in attacks exploiting public-facing applications, mainly via ToolShell targeting SharePoint, for initial access, with post-exploitation phishing and evolving ransomware tactics also persisting this quarter. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/ir-trends-q3-2025/
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‘I am not a robot’: Russian hackers use fake CAPTCHA lures to deploy espionage tools
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, captcha, ceo, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, espionage, exploit, group, hacker, incident response, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, phishing, powershell, russia, strategy, tactics, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustEvolving tactics and strategies: Analysts said ColdRiver, which for years focused on credential theft and email account compromise, is shifting toward multi-stage intrusions that rely on users to execute malicious code.By using ClickFix pages that mimic CAPTCHA verification screens, the group can bypass email security filters and deliver malware directly to victims’ devices, increasing the…
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CAASM and EASM: Top 12 attack surface discovery and management tools
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, blockchain, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, detection, dns, endpoint, exploit, framework, guide, hacking, HIPAA, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, network, open-source, PCI, risk, risk-assessment, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCAASM and EASM tools for attack surface discovery and management: Periodic scans of the network are no longer sufficient for maintaining a hardened attack surface. Continuous monitoring for new assets and configuration drift are critical to ensure the security of corporate resources and customer data.New assets need to be identified and incorporated into the monitoring…
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Self-propagating worm found in marketplaces for Visual Studio Code extensions
Tags: access, application-security, attack, backdoor, backup, best-practice, blockchain, breach, ciso, control, credentials, crime, crypto, cyber, data, data-breach, endpoint, framework, github, gitlab, google, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, marketplace, network, open-source, resilience, risk, sans, security-incident, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormMarketplaces targeted: The Koi Security report is the latest in a series of warnings that threat actors are increasingly targeting VS Code marketplaces in supply chain attacks. Last week, Koi Security exposed a threat actor dubbed TigerJack spreading malicious extensions. And researchers at Wiz just published research showing the widespread abuse of the OpenVSX and…
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CISOs’ security priorities reveal an augmented cyber agenda
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, business, cio, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, detection, edr, email, framework, governance, healthcare, incident response, intelligence, malware, microsoft, mssp, phishing, ransomware, risk, service, siem, soc, software, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustCSOConsequently, 41% are planning to leverage AI to detect threats, for anomaly detection, and to automate security responses. Other respondents cited plans to leverage AI for malware detection and real-time risk prediction (39%), as well as DLP and improving enterprise system visibility.Further, 40% expect to see AI enhancements as part of their existing security systems,…
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CISOs’ security priorities reveal an augmented cyber agenda
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, business, cio, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, detection, edr, email, framework, governance, healthcare, incident response, intelligence, malware, microsoft, mssp, phishing, ransomware, risk, service, siem, soc, software, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustCSOConsequently, 41% are planning to leverage AI to detect threats, for anomaly detection, and to automate security responses. Other respondents cited plans to leverage AI for malware detection and real-time risk prediction (39%), as well as DLP and improving enterprise system visibility.Further, 40% expect to see AI enhancements as part of their existing security systems,…
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Network security devices endanger orgs with ’90s era flaws
Tags: access, application-security, apt, authentication, breach, cisa, cisco, citrix, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, dos, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, firmware, flaw, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, injection, ivanti, jobs, linux, mitigation, mobile, network, open-source, penetration-testing, programming, regulation, remote-code-execution, reverse-engineering, risk, risk-management, router, service, software, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day2024 networking and security device zero-day flaws Product CVE Flaw type CVSS Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and CloudGuard Network Security CVE-2024-24919 Path traversal leading to information disclosure 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20359 Arbitrary code execution 6.6 (Medium) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance CVE-2024-20353 Denial of service 8.6 (High) Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance …
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Government considered destroying its data hub after decade-long intrusion
Tags: access, backdoor, breach, china, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, government, group, Hardware, incident response, infrastructure, network, risk, spy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityBridewell, a supplier to the UK government critical network infrastructure, endorsed the severity of this approach. He said, “it’s like when a device is compromised, the only way to truly be sure there are no remnants, or unidentified backdoors is to restore the asset to a known good state. In the physical realm, in particular…
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A Zero-day Incident Response Story from the Watchers on the Wall
When I woke up the morning of September 8, I didn’t have the foggiest idea what the day had prepared for me. The most terrifying part of being a security person is the first few minutes of your day when you check the dashboards. By mid-morning the now infamous blog post from Aikido Security about……
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There’s no such thing as quantum incident response and that changes everything
Tags: apple, attack, china, compliance, computer, cryptography, data, dns, encryption, finance, group, healthcare, incident response, Internet, linkedin, nist, PCI, risk, serviceStep one: Inventory your algorithms and data with a view towards which sensitive data ought to be protected with PQC. This is a data classification exercise where you need to add a column to track whether the datastore or application qualifies for PQC.Step two: Check your internet-facing assets to see which, if any, are already…
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There’s no such thing as quantum incident response and that changes everything
Tags: apple, attack, china, compliance, computer, cryptography, data, dns, encryption, finance, group, healthcare, incident response, Internet, linkedin, nist, PCI, risk, serviceStep one: Inventory your algorithms and data with a view towards which sensitive data ought to be protected with PQC. This is a data classification exercise where you need to add a column to track whether the datastore or application qualifies for PQC.Step two: Check your internet-facing assets to see which, if any, are already…
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There’s no such thing as quantum incident response and that changes everything
Tags: apple, attack, china, compliance, computer, cryptography, data, dns, encryption, finance, group, healthcare, incident response, Internet, linkedin, nist, PCI, risk, serviceStep one: Inventory your algorithms and data with a view towards which sensitive data ought to be protected with PQC. This is a data classification exercise where you need to add a column to track whether the datastore or application qualifies for PQC.Step two: Check your internet-facing assets to see which, if any, are already…
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Laura Faria: Empathy on the front lines
Laura opens up about her journey through various cybersecurity roles, her leap into incident response, and what it feels like to support customers during their toughest moments, including high-stakes situations impacting critical infrastructure. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/laura-faria-empathy-on-the-front-lines/
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A View from the C-suite: Aligning AI security to the NIST RMF FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, csf, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, framework, governance, grc, guide, incident response, infrastructure, injection, jobs, LLM, malicious, nist, RedTeam, risk, risk-management, strategy, supply-chain, theft, tool, vulnerabilityOct 15, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – In 2025, the AI race is surging ahead and the pressure to innovate is intense. For years, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) has been our trusted guide for managing risk. It consists of five principles: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover. But with the rise of AI revolutionizing…
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58% of CISOs are boosting AI security budgets
Tags: ai, ciso, conference, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, identity, incident response, india, intelligence, risk, soc, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFoundryThe takeaway: AI in cybersecurity has reached an inflection point. Whether it’s accelerating incident response, tightening identity management, or simplifying complex threat analysis, enterprises are betting big that AI-enabled tools will be essential for staying secure in an era of AI-enabled attacks.Hear more at the CSO Conference & Awards, October 2022 at the Grand Hyatt…
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Source code and vulnerability info stolen from F5 Networks
Tags: access, apt, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, ceo, ciso, control, credentials, crowdstrike, cybercrime, data, data-breach, detection, edr, endpoint, exploit, group, guide, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, network, programming, risk, sans, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityF5 mitigations: IT and security leaders should make sure F5 servers, software, and clients have the latest patches. In addition, F5 has added automated hardening checks to the F5 iHealth Diagnostics Tool, and also suggests admins refer to its threat hunting guide to strengthen monitoring, and its best practices guides for hardening F5 systems.As a…
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Source code and vulnerability info stolen from F5 Networks
Tags: access, apt, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, ceo, ciso, control, credentials, crowdstrike, cybercrime, data, data-breach, detection, edr, endpoint, exploit, group, guide, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, network, programming, risk, sans, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityF5 mitigations: IT and security leaders should make sure F5 servers, software, and clients have the latest patches. In addition, F5 has added automated hardening checks to the F5 iHealth Diagnostics Tool, and also suggests admins refer to its threat hunting guide to strengthen monitoring, and its best practices guides for hardening F5 systems.As a…
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13 cybersecurity myths organizations need to stop believing
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, backup, banking, breach, business, ceo, compliance, computer, computing, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, encryption, finance, government, group, identity, incident response, infrastructure, jobs, law, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, nist, openai, passkey, password, phishing, privacy, regulation, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityBig tech platforms have strong verification that prevents impersonation: Some of the largest tech platforms like to talk about their strong identity checks as a way to stop impersonation. But looking good on paper is one thing, and holding up to the promise in the real world is another.”The truth is that even advanced verification…
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Vom CISO zum Chief Risk Architect
Tags: ai, business, ceo, ciso, cyber, cyberattack, cyersecurity, dora, finance, firewall, germany, incident response, nis-2, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, supply-chain, technology, update, vulnerabilityDer moderne CISO wird zum Chief Risk Architect.Jahrelang waren CISOs im Maschinenraum der IT tätig und konzentrierten sich auf die Einhaltung von Vorschriften, die Verwaltung von Firewalls, Patching und die Reaktion auf Vorfälle. Ihr Hauptziel war es, einen Cyberangriff zu verhindern und die Sicherheit aufrechtzuerhalten. Doch dieses Modell wird der Komplexität moderner Bedrohungen nicht mehr…
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Attackers Exploit Defender for Endpoint Cloud API to Bypass Authentication and Disrupt Incident Response
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s cloud communication can be abused to bypass authentication, intercept commands, and spoof results, allowing attackers to derail incident response and mislead analysts. Recent research shows that multiple backend endpoints accept requests without effectively validating tokens, enabling unauthenticated manipulation if a machine ID and tenant ID are known. Microsoft reportedly classified the…