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Sep 13, 2023 By Forescout In Forescout
Forescout Vedere Labs studies what attackers are working towards by observing actual attacks in our sandboxes, on the Darknet and in our Adversary Engagement Environment. We analyze significant attacks and generate vulnerability and threat intelligence that is consumed by the Forescout Platform. We also create corresponding detection rules that are added to Forescout XDR to help ensure customers can protect their IT, OT, IoT and IoMT environments.
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R4IoT: When Ransomware Meets IoT and OT | Forescout Research

Sep 13, 2023 By Forescout In Forescout
Forescout Research - Vedere Labs has released a demonstration, report and detailed playbook describing how organizations can protect themselves against R4IoT: a novel, proof-of-concept ransomware that exploits an IoT device to gain access and move laterally in an IT network and impact the OT network. This demonstration is backed by rigorous research into IT, OT and IoT asset vulnerabilities as well as current ransomware trends.
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Federal Agencies Face 9/30/23 Deadline to Submit Detailed Plan for Implementing 2021 Cybersecurity Executive Order

Sep 6, 2023 By Timothy Jones In Forescout
In mid-August, U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan sent a memo to cabinet secretaries of agencies outside the Pentagon dinging them for not complying with deadlines and steps in the 2021 Executive Order 14208 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. In doing so, he set a new timeclock ticking for submitting a detailed implementation plan by the end of September… just a few weeks away from this writing.
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2023H1 Threat Review: Vulnerabilities, Threat Actors and Malware

Sep 6, 2023 By Forescout Vedere Labs In Forescout
In a new threat briefing report, Forescout Vedere Labs looks back at the most relevant cybersecurity events and data between January 1 and July 31, 2023 (2023H1) to emphasize the evolution of the threat landscape. The activities and data we saw during this period confirm trends we have been observing in our recent reports, including threats to unmanaged devices that are less often studied.
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The Hidden Danger - Understanding and Defending Against Insider Threats

Aug 23, 2023 By Debojyoti Chakraborty In Forescout
Cyber threats do not always come from outside an organization. Insiders, including current and former employees, contractors and other business partners with authorized access to your network, systems or data can pose significant risk, damage your reputation or even cause financial losses and business disruption. Insider threat incidents are on the rise and organizations affected by them spend on average $15.4 million on mitigation efforts.
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Rhysida Ransomware - Detecting a Significant Threat to Healthcare and Other Sectors

Aug 17, 2023 By Forescout Vedere Labs In Forescout
The Rhysida ransomware as a service (RaaS) group was first revealed in May 2023. Since then, the group has claimed 41 victims, including some high-profile ones such as the Chilean army and five educational institutions in the U.S. The group is also suspected to be behind the attack against Prospect Medical Holdings, which affected 17 hospitals and 166 clinics in the U.S., although Prospect is not listed as a victim on Rhysida’s website.
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New TETRA:BURST Vulnerabilities Enable Attackers to Intercept and Inject Critical Radio Traffic - How to Mitigate Risk

Jul 24, 2023 By Forescout Vedere Labs In Forescout
On July 24, a group of researchers at Midnight Blue announced TETRA:BURST, a set of five new vulnerabilities affecting the TETRA standard for radio communication.
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You're Not Hallucinating: AI-Assisted Cyberattacks Are Coming to Healthcare, Too

Jul 18, 2023 By Daniel dos Santos In Forescout
We recently published a blog post detailing how threat actors could leverage AI tools such as ChatGPT to assist in attacks targeting operational technology (OT) and unmanaged devices. In this blog post, we highlight why healthcare organizations should be particularly worried about this.
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The 5 Riskiest Connected Devices in 2023: IT, IoT, OT, IoMT

Jul 13, 2023 By Forescout Vedere Labs In Forescout

Since 2020, Forescout Research – Vedere Labs has been tracking the riskiest devices on organizations’ networks. In 2020, we released the first Enterprise of Things Security Report, followed in 2022 with the Riskiest Connected Devices in Enterprise Networks report. Our reports are entirely based on data coming directly from connected devices.

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Go Beyond Device Visibility to Prioritize and Act on Cybersecurity Risk

Jun 28, 2023 By Barry Mainz In Forescout

When I joined Forescout as CEO six months ago, I was excited to partner with our strong employees, management team and board as we take the company through its next phase of growth. Today I’m pleased to announce enhancements to the Forescout® Platform that will help customers fully understand the risk posture of their attack surface and enable their security teams to focus on remediating the assets that pose the most risk.

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