How to Create a Culture of “Healthy Paranoia”

In an increasingly connected world, no one is immune to cyber security risks. You don’t have to be in the middle of an incident to know that cybercrime and data breaches are widespread across all industries — and capable of bringing even a major corporation to its knees. In fact, according to Flashpoint’s 2022 Year…

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Prilex POS Malware Targeting Contactless Credit Card Transactions

Context Prilex has been active since at least 2014 and evolved from an automated teller machine (ATM) malware into a POS malware in 2016, primarily targeting Brazilian and South American retailers. In 2022, the malware evolved further, conducting fraudulent “GHOST transactions” using EMV cryptograms generated by payment cards during the payment process. In previous cases,…

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Bridging the Digital Privacy Gap

The term “cybersecurity” can oftentimes be ambiguous and difficult to define, no different than that of a single or multi-family office. But much like an Investment Policy Statement, identifying and defining risk down to the individual level is paramount in achieving both near-term and strategic objectives. In this blog post, we seek to shed light…

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New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything Paid to Speed Encryption

Context On January 26, 2023, Trend Micro researchers reported the technical details of a new ransomware they dubbed “Mimic” they observed in June of 2022 targeting English and Russian-speaking users. Technical Details According to Trend Micro researchers, the campaign delivers an executable that drops multiple binaries and an archive containing the payload. Reportedly, the key…

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A Roadmap to Zero-Trust Maturity

Despite all the marketing hype related to ZTA, at the end of the day, it may not make sense for all organizations, particularly those in less risky environments to implement or pursue all components. That said, all organizations can learn from the tenets and leverage them to improve their security posture. In the preceding series,…

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