Originally published by Abnormal Security. Bad actors have been using phishing emails to steal sensitive data for three decades. Impersonating a trusted individual or brand and manufacturing a sense of urgency, attackers deceive targets into providing private information like login credentials or bank account details. Because email wasn’t initially designed with...
Inaugural global community will bring together financial regulators, central banks and supervisors to combat cyber and physical crime, enhancing financial sector resiliency
Expanded partnership to protect and defend European payments infrastructure
Originally published by Uptycs. Written by Shilpesh Trivedi and Nisarga C M. The Uptycs Threat Research Team has uncovered a large-scale, ongoing operation within the Log4j campaign. Initially detected within our honeypot collection, upon discovery, the team promptly initiated an in-depth analysis to delve into the complexities of this dynamic campaign. The threat...
NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 20, to discuss a new summary of a recent tabletop exercise to simulate national and international responses to a hypothetical asteroid impact threat. The fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise was held April 2 and 3, 2024, at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory...
Originally published by CXO REvolutionaries. Written by Ben Corll, CISO in Residence, Zscaler. Let’s face it, our jobs as CISOs are a constant dance with the shadows. We fight invisible enemies, anticipate the next attack, and strive to stay one step ahead of ever-evolving threats. That’s where threat intelligence comes in – it’s the intel that...
Trump’s claim that the president has unrestrained constitutional power to withhold funds is wrong Donald Trump is promising to assert sweeping constitutional power to cancel federal funds for an array of agencies and programs if he’s reelected president. On June 7, 2024, The Washington Post reported that Trump allies are considering cutting funds enacted into law...
Written by Alex Vakulov. The growing dynamics of cyber risks are forcing companies to shift their approach to information security from reactive to proactive. Gartner has introduced a new concept called Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to address this. In 2022, Gartner first introduced CTEM, highlighting that it is not a specific product or solution but...
Fourteen banks and industry trade associations from across Europe have been testing their mettle in a war-gaming WannaCry-style attack on a simulated bank network. The cyberrange exercise, hosted by UBS, follows recent predictions from the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) that artificial intelligence will be increasingly...
J.R. Manes, Global Head of Cyber Intelligence and Threat Analysis with HSBC, speaks about how convening with a trusted peer-to-peer network such as FS-ISAC’s supports HSBC’s cyber security program, the infrastructure changes CISOs should adopt to better protect their organisation, how important intelligence sharing is for your organisation and which...