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Today’s cybersecurity landscape can be challenging. Cyber attacks are rising every year (50% of organizations suffered a breach in 2022), the skills gap continues to widen, and hackers are taking advantage of new techniques and new criminal networks like ransomware-as-a-service to launch sophisticated attacks. For organizations, it’s become harder to stay secure. The internal security operations center (SOC) isn’t feasible for many.

Malvertising–also called malicious advertising–is when cybercriminals use advertisements to infect devices with malware. Malvertising can appear on any advertisement you see online, you don’t necessarily have to be on a malicious website to be a victim of this cyberthreat. When a victim is exposed to a malvertisement, their device and data are at risk of being compromised, even if they don’t interact with the advertisement.

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The Knight ransomware-as-a-service offering (formerly known as “Cyclops”) is using phony TripAdvisor complaints to deliver its malware, BleepingComputer reports. “A newer version of this campaign spotted and analyzed by BleepingComputer now includes an HTML attachment named 'TripAdvisor-Complaint-.PDF.htm,’” BleepingComputer says.

In a recent panel discussion led by David Neuman, Sr. Analyst with TAG Cyber, ThreatQuotient’s Dave Krasik, Sr. Director of Product Management and Jessica Bair Oppenheimer, Director, Cisco Security Strategic Alliances shared their insights on data-driven security operations. The discussion focused on the challenges and importance of prioritizing, automating and collaborating to detect and respond to threats, and was followed by a demo of the ThreatQ Platform.

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As technology advances, the battle between cyber criminals and organizations intensifies. Cyber threats have become more sophisticated, complex, and widespread, posing a significant risk to the security and integrity of sensitive data. In Q1 2023 alone, the number of global cyber attacks increased by 7%, with an average of 1,248 attacks reported per week.