Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Malicious threat actors don’t work a 9-to-5 schedule, and they definitely don’t take a break when your organization’s annual security assessments are complete. Instead, they constantly put your security posture to the test—day after day, month after month, all year long. That’s why annual penetration tests and periodic validation campaigns are insufficient in today’s threat landscape.

Crowdsourced penetration testing promises broad coverage, flexible resourcing, and cost efficiency by tapping into a distributed pool of security testers. Trustwave, A LevelBlue Company, realizes that not every organization has the financial resources to partner with a security firm with dedicated penetration testing capabilities. At the same time, we want to make organizations aware of the many pitfalls in the crowdsourced pen-testing market and offer a few pointers on choosing the right vendors.

A new phishing kit is impersonating the Italian IT and web services provider Aruba, according to researchers at Group-IB. The kit is designed to trick users into entering their Aruba credentials, granting attackers access to sensitive accounts. “Such a target offers significant payoff: compromising a single account can expose critical business assets, from hosted websites to domain controls and email environments,” Group-IB says.

A cyberattack is a malicious and intentional attempt by an individual or organization to compromise the information system of another individual or organization. Attackers use different methods to gain unauthorized access to the victim’s system and steal sensitive data. One of the most innovative types of cyberattacks is known as a ‘Salami attack’. In this attack, criminals steal small amounts of data and funds from multiple accounts over time without being detected.

Cyberattacks are becoming more advanced and threatening with every passing day. Even if you have a reliable security system in place, the risk of cyberattacks remains. Of all the cyberattacks, Ransomware is perhaps the most dangerous because it causes both data and financial loss. It started as simple encryption malware, but over the years, it has turned into a full-scale business model known as Ransomware as a Service (RaaS).

Cross-domain attacks exemplify adversaries’ drive for speed and stealth. In these attacks, threat actors navigate multiple domains such as endpoint, cloud, and identity systems to maximize their reach and impact. Their goal is to exploit the weaknesses in organizations’ fast-growing and complex environments.

In times of geopolitical and economic instability, no organization would consider running without backups, additional support, clear end goals, and company-wide communication. Within business, the wisdom of strength in numbers and power in unity is widely understood. However, when it comes to its cybersecurity – a critical pillar that reputation, safety, and resilience rely upon – the opposite often happens.

One of our most-loved features is Salt Cloud Connect. In a world of complex deployments, it’s a breath of fresh air: an agentless discovery model that delivers under 10-minute deployment and rapidly gathering API-specific info in cloud platforms. Customers plug it in, and in minutes, not weeks, they get a “traffic-free”, complete inventory of their APIs across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kong, and Mulesoft. This “ease of use” provides a “wow” moment of immediate visibility.