Nearly Half a Billion Emails in 2024 Were Malicious

A new report from Hornetsecurity has found that 427.8 million emails received by businesses in 2024 contained malicious content. “Once again, phishing remains the most prevalent form of attack, responsible for a third of all cyber-attacks in 2024,” Hornetsecurity’s researchers write. “This was confirmed by the analysis of 55.6 billion emails, showing that Phishing remains a top concern consistently year over year.

Top Tool Capabilities to Prevent AI-Powered Attacks

Recent advances in AI technologies have granted organizations and individuals alike unprecedented productivity, efficiency, and operational benefits. AI is, without question, the single most exciting emerging technology in the world. However, it also brings enormous risks. While the dystopian, AI-ruled worlds of sci-fi films are a long way off, AI is helping cyber threat actors launch attacks at a hitherto unknown scale and level of sophistication. But what are AI-powered attacks?

Meta's impact on fraud and scams

Cyjax’s open-source intelligence team has recently conducted an investigation into Meta’s impact on fraud and scams with regards to advertisements. The investigation consisted of extensive research and data collection from dark web sources, closed and open chats, social media platforms, marketplaces, and threat actor marketing forums.

Challenges with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)

While Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is a powerful approach for discovering, monitoring, and managing sensitive data across complex systems, it is not without its challenges. These hurdles often stem from the complexity of modern data environments, evolving threats, and operational constraints. Below are the primary challenges associated with DSPM.

Tanium Semiannual Release SAR - Tanium Tech Talks #113

The new semiannual release schedule is for customers that use Tanium on premises. The semiannual releases streamline the deployment process and enhance the stability and predictability of Tanium solutions. By transitioning from weekly updates to semiannual releases, Tanium aims to ease the work involved for Tanium administrators to plan and deploy releases. See how on-prem customers get all the enhancements already enjoyed by cloud customers in high-quality, predictable releases.

Phreak Out!: New Bluebox Extortion Group DLS Emerges

Another week, another extortion group data-leak site emerges. Cyjax has continued to observe the emergence of data-leak sites (DLSs) for extortion and ransomware groups. New groups FunkSec, ContFR, Argonauts, Kairos, Chort, and Termite appeared in December and November 2024 alone, bringing this year’s total up to 69. On 11 December 2024, Cyjax identified the emergence of a Tor-based DLS belonging to a new data-leak extortion group going by the name ’Bluebox’.

Corelight delivers static file analysis with YARA integration

Malicious files continue to be a significant threat to organizations; SonicWall reported more than six billion malware attacks in 2023. To help organizations prepare for and stay ahead of these threats, we’re introducing an integration with YARA that offers a deeper level of inspection for files across enterprise networks while helping security teams consolidate their toolset in the process.

Tanium Converge 2024 Recap - Tanium Tech Talks

Tanium Converge 2024 announced some amazing tech! Join two Tanium talkers for an insiders look as we review what happened during this special week. Find out which keynotes to watch on-demand for free. Also check out the other in-person Converge interviews on the Tanium Tech Talks playlist on the channel here. Will we see you there in 2025? Tanium's 2024 Converge user conference was held November 17-21 in Orlando, Florida. Converge 2025 will be in Orlando, Florida, November 17-20.#CatchMeAtConverge.