In the race to execute digital transformation strategies, the rear-view mirror never fails to shake off the looming cyber threats that are a significant stumbling block to any organizational objectives. Today, nearly 48% of organizations are experiencing more cyberattacks than the previous year.

It’s a Sunday morning and things are pretty quiet around the Fusilero household, which is especially noticeable now that the chaos of the holiday season has passed and the kids are back at school. So, I’m catching up on my reading and research – starting with Splunk Predictions 2024.

In 2023, Remote Access Trojans (RATs) and Trojan Stealers were some of the most prevalent types of malware in the cybersecurity landscape. RATs and Trojan Stealer malware represent significant cybersecurity threats, as they’re often employed to conduct espionage, surveillance, and data theft, which emphasizes the critical need for robust defenses.

The recent identification of CVE-2024-23897 in Jenkins versions up to 2.441 has significantly heightened concerns within the cybersecurity community, particularly focusing on the implications for public-facing Jenkins servers. Jenkins servers are important for many organizations as they are used in continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, automating stages of software development and deployment.

On January 16th, 2024, Atlassian released an advisory highlighting a critical vulnerability within certain versions of Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. This issue, tracked under the identifier CVE-2023-22527, involves a severe Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability stemming from a template injection flaw in out-of-date software versions. The risk is significant, with unauthenticated attackers potentially gaining the ability to execute arbitrary code on affected installations.

Macro technology trends have always impacted and influenced every aspect of the retail industry. From the days of catalog ordering and cash only transactions to today’s personalized, always-on omnichannel experiences where contactless payment has become the norm - the world of retail is almost unrecognizable.

On January 10th, 2024, Volexity reported that there is active exploitation in the wild against Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN devices. Ivanti and Volexity worked together to review impacted devices, and Volexity identified two different zero days, which have been assigned the following CVEs IDs.

Dissecting the cybersecurity landscape isn’t easy. Organizations are perennially under-prepared. Seemingly every person in the world has been affected by some company’s data breach. Then, we layer in the biggest tech news of 2023: the widespread experimentation and use of generative AI. Today, no one is immune from the threat of an attacker. Each organization must be ready. Organizations of all sizes must understand the evolving cybersecurity landscape in order to defend themselves.

Hypothesis-driven hunting is probably the most well-known type of threat hunting, and it’s one of the three types defined in the PEAK threat hunting framework. In this article, we’ll walk through a sample hypothesis-driven hunt, step-by-step. For our data, we’ll be using the Boss of the SOC Version 3 (BOTSv3) dataset, which you can use to recreate the hunt and work through it on your own. Below is a diagram of the Hypothesis-Driven hunting process.

The security posture of any organization is the result of comprehensive security strategies, processes and practices, which enable organizations to be resilient against evolving security threats. This article describes what we mean by “security posture”, including why it matters, and what comprises it. Importantly, we’ll also understand how to assess and improve the security posture.