Many organizations have multiple IAM schemes that they forget about when it comes to a robust compliance framework such as PCI DSS. There are, at minimum, two schemes that need to be reviewed, but consider if you have more from this potential, and probably incomplete, list: Bottom line, in whatever fashion someone or something validates their authorization to use the device, service, or application, that authorization must be mapped to the role and privileges afforded to that actor.

As reported widely in the press, the Genesis Market is no more. On Tuesday 4th April 2023, the FBI seized control of the infamous marketplace that’d had hundreds of thousands of stolen digital identities for sale, replacing its login page with a takedown notice and call for further information from its users.

The increasing complexity of applications and networks means that it’s more important than ever to have comprehensive application scanning and attack surface management in one place. Any true and complete standalone EASM solutions should already have application scanning capabilities built into them. But how does this work exactly?

In light of recent password manager breaches, our experts have provided tips on how to protect your organization from compromised credentials. In recent weeks, cybersecurity has once again been thrust into the spotlight with the news that both LastPass and Norton LifeLock, two popular password management services, have been targeted in cyberattacks, resulting in the compromise of customer password manager accounts.

It's no surprise that organizations are moving to the cloud to innovate — to meet the growing demands of their customers and digital transformation. Organizations want to build applications that are fast and scalable. They want to make use of the latest cloud-native capabilities like containers, orchestrators, microservices, APIs, and declarative infrastructure. However, this also means security in the cloud cannot be an afterthought.

In this blog post, the KrakenLabs team will take a deep dive into a malware sample classified as LummaC2, an information stealer written in C language that has been sold in underground forums since December 2022. We assess LummaC2’s primary workflow, its different obfuscation techniques (like Windows API hashing and encoded strings) and how to overcome them to effectively analyze the malware with ease.

Security AI usage has surged, and enterprises are reaping the benefits. In its 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report, IBM found that organizations deploying security AI and automation incurred $3.05 million less on average in breach costs – the biggest cost saver found in the study. According to the study, organizations using security AI and automation detected and contained breaches faster. However, while leveraging AI clearly makes a difference, organizations must implement the right architecture.