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It’s been a tough year for the healthcare sector. Throughout 2024, cybercriminals have unleashed a barrage of attacks on a vast number of healthcare organizations - with disconcerting levels of success. FBI research revealed that healthcare is now the US’s most targeted industry.

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. Here’s what you need to know from January.

Kubernetes adoption continues to grow as enterprises increasingly rely on containerized environments to deploy and scale their application. However, the complexity of the Kubernetes environment has evolved dramatically. It ranges from single-cluster setups of workloads to multi-cluster environments spanning hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. Kubernetes deployments are now characterized by their scale and diversity.

Riscosity’s premier capability to automatically act upon any data type that organizations’ products are sharing with 3rd party vendors has been enhanced even further to support SFTP traffic. Now, any data type going over SFTP to any 3rd party vendor can be automatically blocked, redacted, or notified about.

The future of cloud computing is expected to drive innovation, efficiency, and security in the future, transforming both organizations and technology. Faster processing, improved security, and more intelligent automation are becoming more and more necessary as businesses depend more and more on cloud infrastructure.

Network security has become essential in today's rapidly changing digital environment. Conventional firewalls frequently find it difficult to keep up with the increasing complexity of assaults and the widespread adoption of cloud computing. A cloud-native solution called Firewall as a Service was created to provide complete, scalable, and effective network protection.

The year 2024 was full of incidents, hacker attacks, and security flaws that were used in the wild. Were there any incidents related to the Atlassian ecosystem? Outages? Security flaws? We’ve decided to analyze it. In comparison to the previous year, the number of incidents in Jira grew by 44%, and when we compare it to 2022 the percentage is even higher – 63% – in 2022 there were reported 59 incidents, in 2023 – 75, and in 2024 their number grew to 132 incidents.

Artifactory token leaks are not the most common, but they pose significant risks, exposing sensitive assets and enabling supply chain attacks. This article explores the dangers of leaked tokens and proposes mitigation strategies, including token scoping and implementing least privilege policies.

Every day, insurance companies manage vast amounts of sensitive data, including medical records, financial information, and personal identifiers—all of which are processed and stored across various services, applications, and cloud resources. The types of sensitive data that these companies collect has become more complex and nuanced, with varying requirements for protection.

Today, Arctic Wolf successfully completed the acquisition of BlackBerry’s Cylance endpoint security assets. With this acquisition, we are thrilled to welcome hundreds of new partners and thousands of customers to The Pack. Additionally, we are excited to welcome almost 400 new employees who will join Arctic Wolf offices around the globe.