Ever lost sleep over possible hidden attack routes lurking in your organization’s attack surface? You’re not alone. The concept of ‘unknown-unknowns’ is a recurring nightmare for many IT professionals – but there are ways to mitigate the risks. We’ll explore the problem of unknown-unknowns and provide some practical strategies to help your organization uncover these hidden threats.

Welcome to the Threat Context Monthly blog series where we provide a comprehensive roundup of the most relevant cybersecurity news, and threat information from KrakenLabs, Outpost24’s cyber threat intelligence team.

A penetration test is a sanctioned assault on your organization’s electronic assets and data. If the attack is repelled, you win. If the attack successfully breaches your defenses, technically you also win – as you’ve now got the chance to fix those vulnerabilities before a real attacker tries their luck. Given the complexity of a modern enterprise, a pen test can evaluate a wide range of assets, networks, systems, and apps on premises, mobile, and in the cloud.

Welcome to the Threat Context Monthly blog series where we provide a comprehensive roundup of the most relevant cybersecurity news, and threat information from KrakenLabs, Outpost24’s cyber threat intelligence team.

Finding savings and efficiencies is part of an IT leader’s role. But sacrificing security for the sake of convenience is almost always asking for trouble later down the line. There are IT security shortcuts that might be well-intentioned and seem sensible at the time, that could have serious and unintended negative consequences. We’ll run through nine common IT security shortcuts that can end up costing organizations millions.

During a recent customer assessment, our pen testers discovered a critical vulnerability that exemplifies the importance of manual and continuous pen testing. The issue involved a feature intended for administrators, allowing them to send messages to a “broadcast” endpoint, which would then be displayed in a modal pop-up box for all logged-in users of the web application. However, our pen testers found that this functionality was accessible to any user, regardless of their role.

A recent advisory issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has shed light on vulnerabilities in Ivanti VPNs that are currently being actively exploited by malicious actors. Ivanti VPN solutions, widely utilized for their robust security features and efficient network management capabilities, have recently been identified as containing critical vulnerabilities.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks pose a significant security threat by infiltrating an application’s input fields with malicious code snippets. When users access the affected pages, this code is executed in their browsers, putting their sensitive information at risk. The malicious content injected into the web browser can take various forms, including JavaScript, HTML, Flash, or any other executable code.

Welcome to the Threat Context Monthly blog series where we provide a comprehensive roundup of the most relevant cybersecurity news, and threat information from KrakenLabs, Outpost24’s cyber threat intelligence team.

Problems arise when teams are too siloed. In the past, organizations ran into trouble when Development teams would hand over finished code with security problems to IT Operations to deploy and manage. They realized it was faster and more effective to work together throughout the product lifecycle in a DevOps model, picking up on issues and resolving them as they went in an agile way of working.