APT37 Leverages Internet Explorer Zero-Day to Target South Korean Users

Context APT37 is a known, sophisticated North Korean state-backed actor that has historically leveraged Internet Explorer zero-days to target North Korean defectors, government officials, journalists, and activists in South Korea. Technical Details CVE-2022-41128 was patched by Microsoft on November 8, 2022. According to Microsoft, “this vulnerability requires that a user with an affected version of…

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Zero Trust – A Verb, Not a Noun

I see so many people reference zero trust as a product, something that you achieve simply by plugging it into a network or installing it on a computer, but it is, in fact, quite the contrary. Zero trust is an action, a process in which you deny everything by default and only give access to…

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Sophisticated Campaign Targeting Cryptocurrency Firms

On December 6, 2022, Microsoft researchers reported technical details of a campaign targeting cryptocurrency organizations globally using what they describe as complex tactics. Community Impact Many retail, travel, and hospitality organizations maintain financial relationships with cryptocurrency firms for business reasons or accept cryptocurrency as payment and maintain relationships with organizing firms for financial reasons. As…

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Defining Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) for the Retail and Hospitality Community

Over the last few years, zero trust has become the latest buzzword in the security industry, right up there with digital transformation and shift left. For many, zero trust is seen as a marketing ploy, designed to sell yet another product. For others, zero trust is an abstract ideal with no clear implementation path. In…

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Double Trouble: Why Account Takeover and Fake Accounts are Still Succeeding

Account takeover (ATO) and fake account generation attacks have become wildly successful in recent years, so much so that the FBI’s Cyber Division issued a recent warning to businesses about the growing threat of automated attacks. To better understand the current landscape as it pertains to retailers, Kasada analyzed the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Top…

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