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September 2022

How Your Healthcare Organization Can Achieve Cloud Cybersecurity and Compliance

Healthcare leaders are embracing cloud technologies to connect information across the continuum of care, engage more patients, and unlock the potential of health data. While the cloud streamlines healthcare operations, it also presents challenges for organizations that must meet the stringent data security requirements of HIPAA and other security standards.

Microsoft Exchange On-Prem Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

On Thursday, September 29th, 2022, GTSC–a Vietnam-based cybersecurity company–published a blog detailing intrusion they investigated that chained together two exploits for Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities to achieve remote code execution (RCE). Technical details around how to exploit these vulnerabilities were not provided.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: The Importance of Enabling MFA

Welcome to October, the spookiest month of the year! No, we’re not talking cute kids dressed as their favorite cartoon character on a mission to collect a mountain of candy. That’s a treat. We’re here to talk about the tricks, and how you can keep from falling for them. That’s right, it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month!

1H 2022 Incident Response Insights from Arctic Wolf Labs

Arctic Wolf Labs regularly collects and analyzes data and insights from the incident response activities of Arctic Wolf’s incident response business unit, Tetra Defense. These insights, as laid out in the charts and graphs in this blog, enhance the threat detection capabilities of the Arctic Wolf Security Operations Cloud, and are leveraged by Arctic Wolf’s community of partners.

CVE-2022-3236 - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Sophos Firewall

On Friday, September 23, 2022, Sophos disclosed a critical code injection vulnerability impacting Sophos Firewall. This vulnerability, assigned CVE-2022-3236, affects Sophos Firewall versions v19.0 MR1 (19.0.1) and older and could lead to remote code execution. In order for a threat actor to exploit this vulnerability, WAN access would need to be enabled for the Webadmin and User Portal consoles.

16 Threat Intelligence Terms Everyone Should Know

Understanding the ins and outs of threat intelligence can be complicated for an organization. If your business is anything but cyber, it’s understandable to be overwhelmed by terms like ransomware, cryptocurrency, and DDoS attacks, especially in relation to your systems and assets. That’s okay.

How Wiz and Torq Combine to Mitigate Existential Cloud Security Threats

A single cloud security incident can stop an enterprise in its tracks, sometimes resulting in irreparable damage to its operation, reputation, and customer loyalty. One key strategy for preventing such incidents is combining complementary cybersecurity tools to defeat threats at scale. A coherent Cyber Security Incident Response Planning (CSIRP) approach requires enterprises to select and integrate the right tools before a security incident occurs.

Insight Into The Strengthening America Cybersecurity Act

Signed into law in March of 2022, the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act (SACA) gives federal authorities an overview of all cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the United States for the very first time. SACA has three parts: SACA comes at a time when governments are facing a significant paradigm shift.

What We Can Learn from the 'Prompt-bomb' Uber Hack

It was the worst-case scenario for Uber, the popular ride-sharing app, when the company suffered a major data breach in early September. While the extent of the damage, and the data potentially stolen, is still being uncovered, the attack — and the methods used to execute it — can be examined and used to teach other organizations what (and what not) to do.

Initial Access Brokers: What They Are, How They Gain Access, and Who Uses Their Services

Imagine a burglar. They’ve spent large amounts of time researching their target — your house. They’ve perfected their infiltration techniques, found your weak points, learned your schedule, and know the best time to strike. They’ve shown up when you least expect it and jimmied open the lock on the back door. And now, rather than head inside and steal your valuables, they hold the door open for someone else.

Torq Delivers on the Promise of Parallel Execution

Security operations professionals are constantly being pushed to the edge of their capacities. They’re dealing with endless manual processes and managing tasks sequentially, because of the limitations of their security tools and options. They’ve dreamed of being able to execute more tasks simultaneously to quickly enrich, analyze, contain, and resolve security threats. Today, Torq is proud to introduce Parallel Execution, which makes those capabilities a reality.

Lorenz Ransomware Intrusion: Understanding Your Risk

The Arctic Wolf Labs team recently investigated a Lorenz ransomware intrusion, which leveraged a Mitel MiVoice VOIP appliance vulnerability (CVE-2022-29499) for initial access and Microsoft’s BitLocker Drive Encryption for data encryption. Lorenz is a ransomware group that has been active since at least February 2021 and like many ransomware groups, performs double-extortion by exfiltrating data before encrypting systems. Over the last quarter, the group has primarily targeted small and medium businesses (SMBs) located in the United States, with outliers in China and Mexico.

Chiseling In: Lorenz Ransomware Group Cracks MiVoice And Calls Back For Free

The Arctic Wolf Labs team recently investigated a Lorenz ransomware intrusion, which leveraged a Mitel MiVoice VoIP appliance vulnerability (CVE-2022-29499) for initial access and Microsoft’s BitLocker Drive Encryption for data encryption. Lorenz is a ransomware group that has been active since at least February 2021 and like many ransomware groups, performs double-extortion by exfiltrating data before encrypting systems.

A Security Leader's Guide to Leveraging MDR

Each organization has its own unique attack surface, operating model, and risk tolerance. The challenge for CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) and IT teams is how to keep business running smoothly, without interruption, while at the same time securing and protecting data. And, since every organization is different, no single strategy will work for everyone.

Car Dealerships: Dealers Must Bolster Data Security Under New FTC Rule

The Federal Trade Commission has recently updated the 2003 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ‘Safeguards Rule’ to create new standards and procedures that will apply to auto dealerships and go into effect in December 2022. The Safeguards Rule outlines the standards required for the protection of consumer data. The new updates create stricter criteria and procedures that car dealers will need to implement, both to reduce the risk of a data breach and to better protect customer data.

The Top Cyber Attacks of August 2022

Ransomware dominated the cybersecurity sphere yet again in August, with victims ranging from wealthy European nations to humble libraries to one of the most storied franchises in American sports. Also, people who send disgusting pranks via mail got some of their business put out on the street. What can we say, it was a weird month. Here are some of the breaches, hacks, and attacks that captured our attention in August 2022.

vxIntel Joins Arctic Wolf to Boost Detection and Threat Intelligence

I’m excited to announce that vxIntel, a leading provider of cyber threat intelligence has joined Arctic Wolf. vxIntel’s Malware Intelligence Platform currently analyzes over 500,000 files each day and over 10 terabytes of data each month from over 100 global data sources.
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5 Questions to Ask When Developing an Automation Strategy

Automation is like running a marathon. It sounds like a great and noble pursuit until you actually go out and start pursuing it. At that point, it's easy to fail if you don't prepare yourself ahead of time for the challenges that are inherent to the process. Indeed, although automation can provide a number of awesome benefits, whether you actually reap those benefits depends on how easy it is to implement and manage automation tools. And, as many teams discover, doing these things may be harder than it often seems.

Challenge Accepted Podcast - Finding Your First Job in Cybersecurity

Security is a journey, not a destination. Every organization — no matter their size or age — should be constantly working to level up their cybersecurity. It’s the kind of process that can be continually reworked, reevaluated, and honed as organizations grow and evolve, and as the cyber threat landscape changes. The question, of course, is where to start?

Recent Phishing Attack Highlights How Hacks Are Changing

Hackers are getting smarter, and phishing is becoming more sophisticated. Most employees know that when an email comes in from a random address, rife with misspellings, and credentials or other private data demands, it’s absolutely a phishing scam. But what if, as an employee, you got a text to update your Okta credentials? What if the link took you to a domain that looked just like your Okta login?

How Zero-Days Work And Why They Aren't Going Away Anytime Soon

Few security exploits are the source of more sleepless nights for security professionals than zero-day attacks. Just over Memorial Day weekend, researchers discovered a new vulnerability enabling hackers to achieve remote code execution within Microsoft Office. Dubbing the evolving threat the Follina exploit, researchers say all versions of Office are at risk.