2024 Strategic Roadmap for Managing Threat Exposure

According to Gartner, through 2026, over 40% of organizations will rely on consolidated platforms or managed service providers for cybersecurity validation assessments. Many security teams currently use isolated approaches focused more on threat type and severity than on actual organizational impact. This reactive strategy doesn't effectively manage the complexities of an ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape and is unsustainable for effective exposure management.

ThreatQuotient Launches ThreatQ Platform Availability in AWS Marketplace

ThreatQuotient announces that its leading Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The Problem with Disjointed Cloud Migration Journeys

Organizations start their cloud migration journey with high hopes for more speed, agility, and innovation. But often, these hopes fall short. Instead of achieving a seamless, cloud-powered enterprise, companies end up with fragmented cloud projects, data security risks, and unpredictable spending. This scattered approach can stall cloud initiatives and prevent organizations from fully benefiting from the cloud. Let’s take a look at some of the impacts and risks.

How Do I Know if I Have Spyware?

You can tell if you have spyware on your device by looking for signs such as your device’s battery draining quickly, overheating, increased pop-ups or data usage and unfamiliar apps. Spyware is a kind of malware that, once unknowingly installed on your device, allows cybercriminals to spy on you and steal your private information. This information could be used by cybercriminals or sold on the dark web to commit fraud or identity theft.

How To Stop Spam Calls

Although there is no way to stop receiving all spam calls, there are steps you can take to reduce the number of spam calls you receive. According to Truecaller’s 2024 report, Americans collectively receive an average of 2.5 billion spam and unwanted calls every month. While spam calls do not always have malicious intent, like hacking your phone or stealing your money, they can grow annoying since they are unwanted and persistent.

Windows Downdate Attacks, Quick Share Vulnerability Exploit, and More: Hacker's Playbook Threat Coverage Round-up: August 2024

In this version of the Hacker’s Playbook Threat Coverage round-up, we are highlighting attack coverage for several new threats, including those discovered via original research by the SafeBreach Labs team. SafeBreach customers can select and run these attacks and more from the SafeBreach Hacker’s Playbook to ensure coverage against these advanced threats. Additional details about the threats and our coverage can be seen below.

Phishing in Style: Microsoft Sway Abused to Deliver Quishing Attacks

In July 2024, Netskope Threat Labs tracked a 2,000-fold increase in traffic to phishing pages delivered through Microsoft Sway. The majority of the credential grabbing pages investigated used “Quishing,” a form of phishing that uses QR code to trick users into accessing a malicious website. The phishing campaigns targeted MS Office credentials, using documents to bait users into logging in.

Applying a 'Three-Box Solution' to Identity Security Strategies

Physical and network barriers that once separated corporate environments from the outside world no longer exist. In this new technological age defined by hybrid, multi-cloud and SaaS, identities are the perimeter. Any one identity—workforce, IT, developer or machine—can become an attack path to an organization’s most valuable assets.