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Cyber crime Phishing & BEC
InfoSec Guide: Domain Monitoring — Detecting Phishing Attacks (Part 1)

A lot of best practices teach users how to prevent or defend against phishing attacks, but how can organizations actively detect and thwart them before users even see them?

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Cyber crime
Tesla and Jenkins Servers Fall Victim to Cryptominers

Vulnerable enterprise servers are being compromised by individuals or groups looking for resources to mine cryptocurrency. The latest victims are automobile-maker Tesla and users of Jenkins servers.

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Exploits & Zero-Days Targeted attacks
North Korean Hackers Allegedly Exploit Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878) Against South Korean Targets

In a security alert posted on its website on January 31, The South Korean Computer Emergency Response Team (KR-CERT) warned of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash player that could be maliciously exploited.

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Cyber crime Hacktivism
Digital Vandals: Exploring the Methods and Motivations behind Web Defacement and Hacktivism

Activists have traditionally used physical signs and catchy slogans to promote their political agenda, but the internet offers a significantly broader audience, so these activities have since moved online.

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Delving into the World of Business Email Compromise (BEC)

We looked at BEC-related incidents over a span of nine months to see emerging and present trends from BEC incidents, examine the tools and techniques used by cybercriminals, and analyze the data to give us an overall picture of what BEC looks like today.

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Exploits & Zero-Days
Meltdown and Spectre Intel Processor Vulnerabilities: What You Need to Know

Microsoft, Linux, Google, and Apple started rolling out patches addressing design flaws in processor chips that security researchers named Meltdown and Spectre. What are they, and how can they affect users?

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Cloud
Data on 123 Million US Households Exposed Due to Misconfigured AWS S3 Bucket

A year that saw major data breaches, including some notable ones from companies like Uber and Equifax, just saw another breach that will likely rank as among 2017’s most notable incidents.

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Exploits & Zero-Days
17-Year Old MS Office Flaw (CVE-2017-11882) Actively Exploited in the Wild

Several threat actors are actively exploiting CVE-2017-11882 to deliver a plethora of threats, including the information-stealing Loki, Pony/FAREIT, and a lockscreen with a ransom note that resembles Bad Rabbit's.

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IoT & smart devices
Cities Exposed in Shodan

Western European, UK, French, German, and US cities exposed. Are your connected devices searchable on the internet? Find out what you are risking.

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Uber Breach Exposes the Data of 57 Million Drivers and Users

In a highly publicized data breach incident, rideshare application Uber announced that the personal information of 57 million customers and drivers were potentially compromised in October 2016.

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