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In the world of cybersecurity, honeypots are a unique mechanism. They exhibit no business value, no production value. In fact, any or all interactions with the honeypot are expectedly anomalous and unauthorized. Honeypots are nothing more than a trap set up to lure cybercriminals into believing that they have accessed legitimate and high value computing resources within your network.

Malware refers to any modified script in a software system that aims to cause intentional harm to the victim. The term malware is a portmanteau that blends two words: malicious and software. Let’s take a good look at this bad situation. We’ll review how malware works, alarming stats and trends, signs that you’re likely infected and, most importantly, ways to prevent this malice.

All cyberattacks that violate the confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA) of the network and data demonstrate some form of anomalous behavior. The starting point of this behavior may be an unauthorized intrusion into the network and, then, unauthorized use of the resources contained within the network. If you can identify an unauthorized network intrusion attempt, you can maintain the CIA of your data assets and network resources.

Arguably nothing in tech has changes the landscape more than ‘as a Service’ offerings, the subscription-based IT service delivery model, In fact, the ‘as a Service’ offering has made its way into the cybercrime landscape. And cybercrime, for its part, has evolved beyond a nefarious hobby — today it’s a means of earning for cybercriminals.

Cryptography is fundamental to many information security and privacy mechanisms. Today, a variety of cryptographic algorithms are used in many different applications. This article explains cryptography: how it works, key principles or operations of cryptography, types of cryptography, use cases and more! (This article was written by Shanika Wickramasinghe.

When it comes to high profile cybercrime incidents, it’s the major tech vulnerabilities and sophisticated state-sponsored threat vectors that make the headlines. In reality, however, most of the cybercrime incidents exploit the human element as the weakest link in the cyberattack kill chain.

Managing and mitigating cyber risk has never been more challenging for companies. Cyber threats are growing exponentially. Daily, hackers are becoming more sophisticated. Businesses rely more on data to function: experts expect that cybercriminals will steal more than 33 billion records this year alone. With an increasing reliance on third-party vendors and cloud services, IT teams are essentially forced to leverage complex infrastructures with significant vendor risk.

When it comes to protecting sensitive business information and trade secrets, most business execs believe that sophisticated cybersecurity solutions and a strong mechanism for security governance are enough. The reality is that establishing multiple layers of security defense forms a strong security fortress against external threats — but that’s not where most corporate espionage originates.

As its name indicates, Denial of Service (DoS) is any cyberattack that renders the target service inaccessible to legitimate users and information systems. That is, you're trying to access a web page or web service and it's just down, not working. The most common way attackers achieve this is by flooding the host servers and network with excessive traffic, such that the host server crashes or fails to respond in an acceptable duration. The denial-of-service style of attack is a common one.

On September 28th it was disclosed by GTSC that there was a possible new zero day being abused in the wild beginning in early August. Although this campaign looked very similar to the previously abused vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, dubbed ProxyShell at the time, comprising 3 CVEs (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523 and CVE-2021-31207) that when combined enabled an adversary to gain remote access to an Exchange PowerShell session that may be abused.