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Each quarter, Tetra Defense, an Arctic Wolf company, collects and analyzes data and insights from its incident response engagements in the United States. These statistics are a vital part of assessing the cyber threat landscape at large and are intended to guide underwriting strategies, loss prevention programs, broker advisement, and client security priorities.

QR (quick response) codes were first created in 1994 by an auto company in Japan, Denso Wave. Visually? They look like they were designed by the first inventors of video game graphics. These days you can find them on everything from menus to billboards. Basically, the goal of the QR code is to link an object to a website containing all the information you’d need for that object.

Penetration tests, also known as pen tests, offer significant security benefits to your business. But, before we dive into what they do, let’s take a moment to understand what they are.

The cybersecurity landscape is complex enough without the lack of a common vocabulary. But, often, organizations use common security terms incorrectly or interchangeably. This leads to confusion, which leads to frustration, which can lead to something much, much worse. Something like a breach. Let’s take a moment, then, to review the four most commonly mixed-up and misused security terms in the cybersecurity world.

On Friday, May 27, Security vendor nao_sec identified a malicious document leveraging a zero-day RCE vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190) in Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT). The actively exploited vulnerability exists when MSDT is called using the URL protocol from a calling application, such as Microsoft Word.

On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Citrix released patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2022-27511, an unauthenticated remote privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM). The vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to remotely corrupt an affected system to reset the administrator password at the next device reboot. Successful exploitation allows a threat actor to gain initial access using the default credentials via SSH after a device reboot.

After a two-year hiatus, we couldn’t have been happier to spend the week in the Bay area with our customers, partners, and peers at the RSA Conference. The opportunity to showcase our latest solutions and technologies while connecting with some of the smartest people in the industry is something we’ve missed dearly, and meeting with our customers in person has made the 2022 conference sweeter than ever before.

Summer is here and phishing season is in full swing. May saw a troubling range of phishing attacks carried out against a wide array of targets, from retirement planners to school systems to national defense. Bundle all of those efforts together with a disturbing ransomware attack on the air travel industry and you have all the evidence you need of the dangers of inadequate cybersecurity at every level.

On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, Volexity responsibly disclosed a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability to Atlassian affecting all supported versions of Confluence Server & Data Center. The Object-Graph Navigation Language (OGNL) injection vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on a Confluence Server or Data Center instance.

When you hear the words “brute force," subtlety is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Indeed, classic brute-force cyber attacks use the most straightforward tactics—trial and error—to gain entry into a protected system. When brute force works, the attack's type, depth, and severity depend on the attacker's goals.