In October 2023, Okta, a leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, experienced a data breach affecting its customer support system. This incident raised serious concerns about the security of sensitive information entrusted to Okta by its customers and partners.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at some of the cybersecurity strategies for supply chains. Cyberattacks have been increasing, and supply chains have taken a hit. In 2022, the United States witnessed a surge in supply chain cyberattacks, which affected 1,743 entities—the highest reported figure since 2017.

In this episode of Trust Issues, CyberArk’s resident Technical Evangelist, White Hat Hacker and Transhuman Len Noe joins host David Puner for a discussion about the emerging threat of AI kiddies, a term that describes novice attackers using large language models (LLMs) and chatbots to launch cyberattacks without any coding skills.

In a newly published report, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that malicious attackers are already taking advantage of artificial intelligence and that the volume and impact of threats - including ransomware - will increase in the next two years. The NCSC, which is part of GCHQ - the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency, assesses that AI has enabled relatively unskilled hackers to "carry out more effective access and information gathering operations...

Trustwave SpiderLabs is tracking a spike in usage of the Greatness phishing kit to attack Microsoft 365 users to distribute malicious HTML attachments that steal login credentials. Greatness is a phishing-as-a-service platform developed by a threat actor known as "fisherstell," and has been available since mid-2022 that provides a ready-made infrastructure and tools for anyone to launch phishing campaigns charging $120 per month in Bitcoin.

Spoiler: Those ads you're seeing for a new X cryptocurrency endorsed by Elon Musk aren't what they appear to be.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Bad news for some Pixel owners this month – sorry to hear you might have an expensive paper weight now.

Atlassian recently disclosed a new critical vulnerability in its Confluence Server and Data Center product line, the CVE has a CVSS score of 10, and allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain Remote Code Execution (RCE) access on the vulnerable server. There is no workaround, the only solution being to upgrade to the latest patched versions.

Enterprise cybersecurity must constantly evolve to meet the threat posed by new malware variants and increasingly sophisticated hacker tactics, techniques, and procedures. This need drives the way security professionals categorize different technologies and approaches. The difference between network security and application security is an excellent example. These two components of the enterprise IT environment must be treated separately in any modern cybersecurity framework.