Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

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In today’s digital landscape, cryptography plays a vital role in keeping information secure. Encryption is one of the primary techniques used in cryptography to ensure that data transmission online is secure and that sensitive information stays protected from unauthorized access. Through encryption, organizations and individuals can mitigate the risk of data breaches and ensure that their confidential information remains that way.

KEV! KEV! KEV! No, you aren’t standing outside a frat house while some college kids encourage their buddy Kevin to finish his beverage. Rather, it’s the sound of people extolling the virtues of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities(KEV) Catalog.

The “Security Alert” scam is a prevalent tech-support fraud that threatens both Windows and Apple users. It exploits the trust of users by masquerading as an official support site, using fake pop-up warnings to lure users into dialing scam phone numbers by conveying a sense of urgency. The ultimate goal is gaining remote access to the user’s system and pilfering personal data to extort money.

ToddyCat deploys advanced tools for industrial scale data theft, hackers use eScan updates to spread GuptiMiner malware, and Russia’s APT28 exploits a Windows Print Spooler flaw.

In our recent research “Better Safe Than Sorry”, we reported how the number of exposed OT/ICS devices in Japan grew by 372% over the past six years. During this time, several notable cyber-attacks targeted businesses and government entities in Japan. The substantial increase in exposed OT/ICS combined with the recent cyber-attacks in Japan has prompted us to give a deeper look at the current threat landscape in the country.

Suspected North Korean threat actors are attempting to trick software developers into downloading malware during phony job interviews, according to researchers at Securonix. The threat actors contact software developers with seemingly legitimate employment opportunities before scheduling virtual job interviews.

With all great power, there comes an equal potential for misuse. Among the sophisticated arsenal of threat actors, impersonation attacks have surged to the forefront, which questions our sense of trust.

As application architectures shift to the cloud and the velocity of software delivery accelerates, organizations are seeking more powerful capabilities to identify security vulnerabilities within their production applications. Traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools, by themselves, are insufficient.