Given the spate of recent ransomware attacks, the latest of which occurred shortly before Independence Day, this topic is likely at the top of mind for most organizations. Understanding the fundamentals of security, and the most common ways ransomware gets installed, is a must if a company hopes to truly lay the groundwork required to build and operationalize their security program.
Modern technologies and work flexibilities, such as cloud computing, work-from-anywhere, remote employees connecting to the internal network, and so on, enhance the organizations' operation and provide ease of management. Consequently, they impact the organizations' security controls and introduce additional attack surfaces or opportunities for intruders to attack. This situation demands security analysts to adopt modern attack surface management techniques and technologies.
The CISO of a large state agency shared with me the automated tools he used to mine intelligence about his IT suppliers, and their sub-suppliers and interconnections by way of vetting for security posture. He truly recognized the threat of third parties long before the SolarWinds hack. His due diligence sparked inspiration for this blog. Can a business assume that third party security controls are strong enough to protect their digital supply chains? What about cloud-based assets?
As organizations look for ways to improve network performance for user-facing application data, it is becoming increasingly evident that routing requests all the way to internal data centers is the least optimized model. Doing so increases latency, reduces available bandwidth, increases bandwidth requirements at the data center, and increases overall costs.
Fraudulent phone calls have been an issue for years, and they’re becoming more common. According to a recent report from Truecaller, 59.49 million Americans lost money to scam calls in the past year, costing $29.8 billion. These threats have risen in both number and cost, and businesses can’t afford to ignore this trend. Small and medium-sized businesses are popular targets for fraud, as they often have less security.
We are pleased to announce that we have expanded our training offerings with the addition of a brand-new AT&T Cybersecurity Training (ACT) learning portal, which is part of AT&T Cybersecurity Training-as-a-Service.
Our current global landscape is testing resiliency. As organizations continue to shift to a remote work business model, the rush to digitally transform has created new and heightened cyber risk concerns. Protecting these digital connections needs to stay top of mind for leaders looking to help their organizations adapt to these changes while continuing to innovate. In this blog, we will look to set the cyberscene and focus on a security first mindset.
Security metrics are vital for you as a security leader to track the progress of your security program and have effective risk-focused conversations with business and operations stakeholders. Security metrics pave the way for security initiatives, facilitate resource, help communicate resource allocation and help communicate results with relevant stakeholders throughout the organization.
Ecommerce is a popular business model. Many people are getting into this business and looking for ways to secure early retirement from typical 9 to 5 jobs. With the right ideas and execution, there is a good chance that this will happen, but making it in eCommerce isn’t that easy as it was in the past. Yes, there are more options than ever in terms of delivery, logistics, storage, and creating an online store.
As the world is starting to move out of lockdown, businesses are moving some of their workforce back into the office environment. Whilst their focus may be on the logistics of this and making the office environment ‘Covid-Safe’ for their employees, they also need to be cognisant of the potential security challenges facing them.
The reason why ransomware is more rampant today is simple: it’s lucrative for hackers. As high-profile examples of ransomware continue to skyrocket concerning the amount of ransom paid, hackers will only continue to pursue it as a strategy.
Photo by Katie Moum on Unsplash In May, after many months of dedicated effort, our compliance team received word that a U.S. Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) moderate certification was granted for the AT&T Threat Detection and Response for Government solution. FedRAMP is a program coordinated by the US General Services Administration and the Department of Homeland Defense that inspects cloud-based solutions for compliance with 325 distinct security controls.
Lethal unauthorized code injections like XXS (cross site scripting) attacks are some of the most dynamic cyber-attacks. They are often very difficult to detect and can result in credit card theft, fraud, and endpoint data breaches, having a huge impact on small to medium sized businesses. In a recent AT&T cybersecurity survey, 88% of respondents reported that they had experienced at least one security incident within the past year.
AT&T Alien Labs™ has observed new activity that has been attributed to the Lazarus adversary group potentially targeting engineering job candidates and/or employees in classified engineering roles within the U.S. and Europe. This assessment is based on malicious documents believed to have been delivered by Lazarus during the last few months (spring 2021). However, historical analysis shows the lures used in this campaign to be in line with others used to target these groups.
The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation behind REvil have become one of the most prolific and successful threat groups since the ransomware first appeared in May 2019. REvil has been primarily used to target Windows systems. However, new samples have been identified targeting Linux systems. AT&T Alien Labs™ is closely monitoring the ransomware landscape and has already identified four of these samples in the wild during the last month, after receiving a tip from MalwareHuntingTeam.
