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Six Golden Rules for Software and Application Security

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, established back in 2004 by the Office of the U.S. President and the U.S. congress. Led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA), the initiative helps both individuals and enterprises make smarter, more informed security decisions.

LOLBins: executing payloads through DNS records

In this blog post, we outline the research our Threat Intelligence team has undertaken into this new attack vector. A new LOLBins tactic for executing payloads through PowerShell was released by Alh4zr3d, a security researcher, on Twitter in September 2022. In the tweet, the security researcher recommended that organisations stay away from IEX and Invoke-WebRequest when using PowerShell commands and, as a substitute, host a text record with their payload on a domain.

September Product Rollup: Link Upgrades, Issue Resolution and More

This month, we’re excited to announce further improvements to public and private links, security and governance issue resolution, content lifecycle management support for content in Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive, support for viewer-only permissions in the Egnyte mobile app, and more. Check out some of our product releases this month below.

How to Create an Incident Response Plan

An incident response plan helps protect your business, customers, and finances in the event of a cybersecurity incident, or any kind of business disruption. It’s essential for business recovery and continuity as advanced and unknown cyber threats continue to gain ground. Most companies don’t yet have an incident response plan. Only 19% of UK businesses have a formalized response plan, while just 46% of US businesses have a specific response plan for at least one major type of cyberattack.

Phony PyPi package imitates known developer

Snyk Security Researchers have been using dynamic analysis techniques to unravel the behaviors of obfuscated malicious packages. A recent interesting finding in the Python Package Index (PyPi) attempted to imitate a known open source developer through identity spoofing. Upon further analysis, the team uncovered that the package, raw-tool, was attempting to hide malicious behavior using base64 encoding, reaching out to malicious servers, and executing obfuscated code.

CISA orders federal agencies to catalog their networks, and scan for bugs

You always want to know what is attached to your network. And whether it could be vulnerable or not. In any organisation it’s normal for different devices, on- or off-prem, wired or wireless, to be constantly added or removed – and this can present an opportunity for malicious hackers to take advantage of improperly secured systems. In many cases, organizations have no idea about how many assets they have, let alone where they are all located.

What to Know about APIs, the "On-Ramps to the Digital World"

An application programming interface, or API, is a defined process that allows data to be shared between applications or programs. Each API consists of a set of rules that dictates how communication occurs between a client and a server or external program. The required request format, the authentication process, and the encryption of data all have set guidelines so that the API knows what information to share and when and how to share it.

Spending Decisions in an Economic Squeeze

Inflation, stagnation… even stagflation and recession… these are the words that look like they will define global economies in 2022 and into 2023. There’s barely a country that is being spared the crunch, and we are already seeing heated debate among global politicians as to the appropriate fiscal response. Do we spend or save our way out of this?

Deliver a Strike by Reversing a Badger: Brute Ratel Detection and Analysis

A new adversary simulation tool is steadily growing in the ranks of popularity among red teamers and most recently adversaries. Brute Ratel states on its website that it "is the most advanced Red Team & Adversary Simulation Software in the current C2 Market." Many of these products are marketed to assist blue teams in validating detection, prevention, and gaps of coverage.