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Context The Department of Energy (DOE), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory on April 13, 2022 detailing new advanced persistent threat (APT) cyber tools targeting Industrial Control System and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (ICS/SCADA) devices. The advisory notes three key…

Have you ever been working on a project and missed a deadline or deliverable simply because there was a miscommunication about who would take the lead on getting it done? Divvying up responsibilities can be efficient and effective, but only when both parties have a complete understanding of what they are responsible for. The same…

Summary Threat actors aligning to the FIN7 hacking group have maintained a multi-year, large-scale hacking campaign that compromised tens of millions of consumer debit and credit cards. The campaign, operating since 2015, has damaged banks, hospitality entities, card companies, and direct consumers more than an estimated $1,000,000,000 USD by targeting numerous entities in the restaurant,…

According to RH-ISAC’s 2021 CISO Benchmark Report, 67% of retail and hospitality organizations expect their full-time employee count to be higher in 2022 than in 2021. Similarly, 70% expect their budget in 2022 to be higher than the previous year. This is good news for cybersecurity professionals racing to secure the digital-first world, but will…

Recent research from Detectify found a 25% increase in vulnerabilities detected in its customers’ subdomain assets in 2021 than in 2020. Additionally, the study found a 100% increase in the median number of vulnerabilities per domain in 2021 than in 2020. Detectify researchers said that the subdomain attack surface continues to grow, and DNS is…

In a perfect world, all of the defenses you’ve put in place will successfully defend against a ransomware attack. Your employees won’t click on any malicious links, none of your credentials will be brute-forced, your RDP ports are secure, and you’ve implemented a zero-trust framework across your network. It is true that taking measures to…

SaaS Security: A Changing Model of Cybersecurity Businesses today commonly employ hundreds of individual SaaS applications for a variety of specific functions, but the majority of sensitive data is typically entrusted to a small set of foundational enterprise applications. Security leaders are well aware that the transition to SaaS has prompted increased targeting by bad…

Updates: April 5, 2022, 12 p.m. ET The “Spring4Shell” RCE (CVE-2022-22965) has been added to CISA’s list of known exploited vulnerabilities. Due to the conditions required to exploit the vulnerability, security researchers are beginning to form a consensus that, while serious, Spring4Shell is not as critical or dangerous as the Log4Shell vulnerability. The conditions for…

With ransomware demands in the millions, companies are beginning to prioritize investment in their ransomware resilience strategy to avoid the severe financial, operational, and reputational costs of being the victim of an attack. In fact, ransomware planning ranked as the top initiative for retail and hospitality CISOs in RH-ISAC’s recent 2021 CISO Benchmark Report, but…

Businesses interested in scaling up operations are turning to hybrid cloud environments as a cost-effective solution. Hybrid clouds provide the best of both worlds, allowing companies to expand their network without investing in additional, costly on-premises servers that must be maintained. Instead, they can keep their highly sensitive data securely stored on premises where they…