Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Newly-released research reveals the eye-watering costs that the manufacturing sector has suffered in recent years at the hands of ransomware. The analysis, by Comparitech, looked at 478 confirmed ransomware attacks on manufacturing companies between 2018 and July 2023, in an attempt to determine their true cost.

State-sponsored threat actors continue to exploit legitimate cloud services, and especially one group, the Russian APT29 (also known as Cozy Bear, Cloaked Ursa, BlueBravo, Midnight Blizzard, and formerly Nobelium), seems to be particularly active. Between March and May 2023, security researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group have unearthed a cyber espionage campaign by the same threat actor allegedly targeting government-sector entities in Europe with interest in Ukraine.

IT risk assessments are vital for cybersecurity and information security risk management in every organization today. By identifying threats to your IT systems, data and other resources and understanding their potential business impacts, you can prioritize your mitigation efforts to avoid costly business disruptions, data breaches, compliance penalties and other damage.

Businesses are realizing the value of bot management tools as part of their application security strategy, with the control set expected to mature towards mainstream adoption in less than two years. This is according to the latest Hype Cycle™ for Application Security by Gartner®, released this month.

As one of the pioneering WAF products, Akamai remains a crucial player in the modern WAAP landscape. Akamai was among the earliest CDNs introduced and continues to dominate content delivery. Its excellence is further validated by being rated a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Web Application and API Protection in 2022.

In the realm of cybersecurity, the RockYou.txt wordlist has become a household name. It’s a tool used by security professionals to test the strength of network security. However, like many tools in the digital world, it can also be misused by malicious actors. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the history of RockYou.txt, its uses and how to protect your organization from potential threats associated with it.

July was one of the hottest months in recent memory, and cybercriminals did their part to keep the heat cranked up for organizations around the globe. As organizations continued sorting through the wreckage of the massive MoveIT incident, new and ongoing threats continued to arrive from every corner. July’s notable breaches include attacks on healthcare providers, emergency services, government agencies, and free speech.

Since Nightfall’s inception in 2018, we’ve made it our mission to equip companies with the tools that they need to encourage safe employee innovation. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve expanded Nightfall’s capabilities to protect sensitive data across generative AI (GenAI) tools and the cloud. Our latest product suite, Nightfall for GenAI, consists of three products: Nightfall for ChatGPT, Nightfall for SaaS, and Nightfall for LLMs.

Since the widespread launch of GPT-3.5 in November of last year, we’ve seen a meteoric rise in generative AI (GenAI) tools, along with an onslaught of security concerns from both countries and companies around the globe. Tech leaders like Apple have warned employees against using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, while other major players like Samsung have even go so far as to completely ban GenAI tools. Why are companies taking such drastic measures to prevent data leaks to LLMs, you may ask?

San Francisco, CA, August 4, 2023—Nightfall AI, the leader in cloud data leak prevention (DLP), announces the launch of the industry’s first complete data security platform designed specifically for Generative AI (GenAI).