Over the years, we have seen a substantial amount of cyberattacks happening around the globe. The most infamous of them is the RaaS attack, which is taking over organizations of all sizes. An employee’s sheer negligence and lack of cybersecurity solutions put organizations at higher risk. In this article, we will share some tips that every organization needs to know in order to stay away from cyberattacks. Ransomware attacks have become prevalent in recent years and can happen to any organization.

Organizations usually rely on remote work capabilities, leading them to use cloud systems. But with increased use of cloud infrastructure, the vulnerability to cyberattacks increases. One such is the Privilege Escalation attack, a complex threat to any network. Multiple defense strategies are required to detect and prevent privilege escalation attacks, but understanding what this attack means is important even before that.

CrowdStrike is committed to protecting our customers from the latest and most sophisticated cybersecurity threats. We are actively monitoring activity surrounding CVE-2024-3094, a recently identified vulnerability in XZ Utils.

Spoofing attacks are a common cyber attack that tricks people into revealing their login credentials by pretending to be a legitimate business website. Password managers, like Keeper Password Manager, have an autofill feature that can help protect against this type of attack. If you land on a spoofed website, Keeper’s autofill feature, KeeperFill®, will not fill in your login credentials if the URL stored in your password vault does not match the website you’re on.

Cyberattacks on large companies grab the headlines, creating the false impression that only big organizations are targeted by cybercriminals. This misleads smaller companies into believing that they are not potential targets because of their size or low profile. However, threats against small and medium-sized companies have been a cause for concern in recent years. Experts warn that companies with fewer than 100 employees are especially vulnerable to a range of threats.

A journalist in Pennsylvania was targeted by phishing attacks that involved thread hijacking, according to Brian Krebs at KrebsOnSecurity. The journalist for LancasterOnline, Brett Sholtis, had written a story last year about a wealthy businessman named Adam Kidan who pleaded guilty to fraud in 2005. Several months after the story was published, Sholtis received two emails from Kidan’s email account.

The UK government's third phase of research shows how well UK organizations have been improving their cybersecurity efforts but indicates that the risk from certain attacks have only been reduced marginally. As part of the UK government’s National Cyber Strategy, their Cybersecurity Longitudinal Survey has been run three times to show how well UK businesses and charities are working to improve their state of cybersecurity.

In the late 1980s, a buffer overflow in UNIX’s fingerd program allowed Robert T. Morris to create a worm which infected 10% of the Internet—in two days. This event launched cybersecurity to the forefront of computer science headlines for one of the first times in history. Nearly three decades later in 2014, a buffer overflow vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptography library was disclosed to the public.

Generative AI technology is rapidly evolving, offering groundbreaking capabilities in various fields, including cloud native environments and CNAPP (Cloud-Native Application) solutions. Development of generative AI technology holds immense promise for enhancing the capabilities and performance of cloud-native environments and CNAPP solutions.

A browser hijacker is a type of malware that infects an internet browser. When your Internet browser becomes infected, it’s done without your knowledge or consent so you may not even notice it’s there until it’s too late. Typically, browser hijackers are used by cybercriminals to redirect users to malicious websites for financial gain, but they can also be used to gather your personal information and spy on your online activity.