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Emotet Analysis: New LNKs in the Infection Chain - The Monitor, Issue 20

Kroll has been tracking Emotet since it was first identified in 2014, especially during its transition from a banking Trojan designed to primarily steal credentials and sensitive information to a multi-threat polymorphic downloader for more destructive malware. Today, Emotet operators stand as one of the most prominent initial access brokers, providing cybercriminals with access to organizations for a fee.

7 Cybersecurity Best Practices Financial Firms Should Live By

According to the 2021 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index , the finance and insurance industry sector experienced the most cyber attacks for the fourth year in a row. It’s no mystery why: Hackers go where the money is. And according to Verizon's 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), financial gain was the most common motive in data breaches across all industries: 93 percent of breaches involving companies with fewer than 1,000 employees were financially motivated.

Publish Your Splunk SOAR Apps Faster

The process for our technology partners to publish their SOAR Apps to Splunkbase just got faster and simpler. App updates are now automatically pulled from our partners’ GitHub repositories into the Splunkbase library in a matter of minutes. With 350+ SOAR Apps on Splunkbase across 200+ partners, this process improvement makes Splunk easier to integrate with and more importantly, provides our customers with even faster access to up-to-date Apps.

Protect CUI, FCI for Your Company's CMMC Compliance

If your company does any business with the U.S. Department of Defense, you will be required to comply with CMMC 2.0 to be considered for future contracts. It doesn’t matter if you sell a product or a service, if DoD business is only a small part of your revenue, or if you are only a subcontractor. You will still be required to comply, even if the work you do hasn’t changed. Your business needs to start building a roadmap for CMMC Level 1 or Level 2 compliance.

Top Challenges Faced in the Current Cyber Security Industry

Protecting devices, data, or systems from cyber threats is what cyber security is all about. These cyber-attacks are usually aimed at gaining access to, destroying, or stealing sensitive data, or consumers’ money and disrupting online transactions and business operations. Implementing an effective cyber security system is critical, as the task has grown increasingly difficult.