Reading the headlines today, it’s safe to say that advanced malware poses a challenge to many of our traditional network security defenses. These malicious programs use an ever-increasing array of sophisticated tactics and evasive techniques to slip past our security walls. Once inside our castle...
Welcome back to a another regular Lastline Threat Intelligence Briefing. This short email briefing intends to give Lastline customers and other interested parties a regular recap of the most important news and events surrounding malware in the world in the previous two weeks. You will...
As virtually every single person working in the world of security knows, last week was the annual RSA Conference. Tens of thousands of security-minded folk from all over the world converged in San Francisco to talk all things security. Let’s just get the elephant in the...
On December 16, 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard disclosed a security incident at a facility regulated by the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA). Forensic analysis suggests that the incident might have begun when an employee clicked on a link embedded in a phishing email. This...
Welcome back to another Lastline Threat Intelligence Briefing. This email briefing intends to give Lastline customers and other interested parties a regular recap of the most important news and events surrounding malware in the world in the previous two weeks. We are providing links to...
The current state of malware is a conflicted one. On the one hand, data breaches involving malware have become less frequent in recent years. In its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), Verizon found that malware had been active in 28 percent of data breaches...
Welcome back to a brand new year and another Lastline Threat Intelligence Briefing! We hope your new year was fantastic! This short briefing intends to give Lastline customers and other interested parties a regular recap of the most important news and events surrounding malware in...
We’re inclined to focus only on digital threats that emanate from outside the network. In so doing, however, we overlook a key risk: threats that come from within the network itself. I’ll use this blog post to discuss what these “insider threats” look like, what types...
When we think of a digital attack, I think many of us go straight to attack campaigns that involve exploiting application or operating system vulnerabilities. Not all attacks involve these, of course. There are plenty of attacks that solely leverage social engineering tactics to undermine...
It should be an axiom: we undermine our cyber security when we retreat into silos. That’s because bad actors profit off of us when we separate ourselves by technology, department, organization, or sector. Ultimately, siloing doesn’t give us a business advantage; it just robs us...
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