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During October 2020, there were some major developments in cybercrime, with ransomware groups stepping up their game and new malware strategies being used. In this monthly wrap-up, we will have a closer look at threat actors Egregor and Trickbot, malware GravityRAT, MosaicRegressor, and IPStorm. Egregor Posts Stolen Data Ransomware groups stepped up their game. The Egregor ransomware group started posting stolen data belonging to Barnes & Noble customers on its dark web domain when the US.

Cybersecurity can be a tricky thing. Gaining information about an environment through internal and external testing can take a wide variety of forms and generate an overwhelming amount of data in the process. From Pen-Testing to Vulnerability Scanning, from Incident Response exercises to Breach and Attack Simulation; the details generated on every aspect of a cyber infrastructure can outpace the ability of the humans who have to make decisions to properly and completely ingest and analyze the.

In September 2020, cybercrime caused the death of an innocent victim. A patient suffering from a life-threatening illness had to be turned away from a hospital in the city of Düsseldorf since the systems had been blocked due to a ransomware attack. This forced the ambulance transporting her, to drive to a hospital in the nearby city of Wuppertal. The patient died on the way. The threat actors breached the hospital using a hole in Citrix software. Hospitals remain a popular target, even in.

Editor's note: Due to the sensitive nature of the topic of this post, Cymulate will not be placing our usual advertising information inside and at the end of the post. We stand with the hospital, emergency services workers, and the family of the victim in recognizing the gravity of this issue. Contact information for Cymulate can be found at the top and bottom of every page of our site, and so we will be presenting this post as-is. Unfortunately, the time has come to answer a question I get on.

A moment of candor - at first look I didn’t get the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cyber Security Framework. It just looked like a list of sensible things to do. Being in the Cyber industry for more years than I care to mention, I have seen it grow from its infancy. Well, I was fortunate to play around with Checkpoint Firewall-1 when it was released as a set of floppies and ran on Solaris. Alongside the amazing development of the cyber security industry I also witnessed.

August 2020 was a hot month, with cybercrime heating up as well. Ransomware attacks became more sophisticated, more incidents of cyber espionage were reported, and there were some major data breaches. The month started with the notorious ransomware group Maze stealing 10TB of data from Canon during a ransomware attack. On August 12, cybercrooks posed as Ritz employees to obtain an unknown amount of personal data of guests in London’s The Ritz, including credit card information. Around the.

Continuing with our series of questions from readers and users of the Cymulate BAS Platform, let's take a look at this user question: "What happens during a Web Gateway Assessment?" When looking at Web Gateways, there are often a lot of "moving parts."Most people think of firewalls when thinking of a web gateway, and the firewall and its technologies are a critical component of a web gateway overall, but there are several other components to take into account when assessing the security of.

July 2020 might have been hot, and COVID-19 is still rampant, but that did not stop or slow down cybercriminals, on the contrary. Here is a rundown of their activity.  Hancitor and Emotet were used in several campaigns. Hanticor is a notorious downloader spreading through malicious attachments to download data-stealing malware such as Pony and Vawtrak. For the first time, Hanticor used a new three-pronged delivery approach: The use of the uncommon, native Windows CallWindowProc API. Piggyback.

A reader recently asked, "I'm in a regulated industry and do penetration testing once a year for compliance. Why would I also use Breach and Attack Simulation?" Let's dive into this question, as the need for Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) solutions like Cymulate do not diminish when you are in a regulated environment. In fact, the need for BAS becomes even stronger when you perform pen-testing once a year for regulatory compliance. Here are two reasons:   1 - You only pen-test once a year. .

In its simplest form, cyber risk is a measurement of your cyber exposure: the probability of a breach, adjusted for the potential loss and damage associated with such a breach. The probability of a successful breach is based on the combined capabilities of your people, technology, and processes; compounded by the skill, tactics, techniques, and technology of your opponent. When defining potential loss and damage, each organization has to define, for their own business, what the potential impact.