Dark Web Analytics: Detecting Threats Across the Dark Web
The nebulous part of the internet: the dark web, which traditional search engines don’t index, serves as a hub for cybercriminal activity, ranging from illicit trade in stolen data to planning sophisticated cyberattacks. Dark web analytics can help organizations detect potential threats and enable them to proactively protect their digital ecosystem. There are a number […]
Executive Threat Protection: Using Monitoring to Gain the Advantage
The risk of cyber threats has become an everyday reality for many organizations. This risk is amplified when it comes to company executives who, due to their high-profile nature and access to sensitive company data, are likely targets for malicious actors. Threat actors are employing new tactics such as double and triple extortion ransomware and […]
Threat Spotlight: Stealer Logs & Corporate Access
Executive Overview Over the last three years, infostealer malware variants have become a “popular trend” in the cybercriminal Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) ecosystem. Doing precisely as their category implies, these malware variants steal information from users’ devices. After infecting the device, the malware employs various techniques to remain undetected while sending data to the malicious actors’ command […]
Threat Intelligence Sharing: 5 Best Practices
To combat sophisticated and relentless threats effectively, organizations must adopt a collaborative approach that goes beyond their individual security measures. Threat intelligence sharing has emerged as a powerful strategy to enhance cybersecurity defenses by leveraging the collective knowledge and insights of the cybersecurity community. By exchanging information about emerging threats, attack techniques, and indicators of […]
Actionable Threat Intelligence: Generating Risk Reduction from CTI
Organizations need to go beyond traditional security measures to effectively protect their valuable assets and maintain a strong security posture. They must harness the power of actionable threat intelligence, which provides timely and relevant insights that can drive proactive risk reduction strategies. Actionable threat intelligence empowers organizations to not only understand the threat landscape but […]
Actioning Threat Intelligence Data: The Definitive Guide
Threat intelligence data plays a pivotal role in strengthening any organization’s defense systems. Actionable threat intelligence is critical, and it is an important function in active defense measures. It provides immense benefits through providing context and priority. Adopting a SaaS platform for threat intelligence handling includes useful features such as automation, consolidated data sources, real-time […]
Cybersecurity AI: Threat Actor Profiling Provides Instant Insights
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLM) dominate current technology conversations. From ChatGPT to DALLE 2, generative AI has become the new hype technology overtaking the corporate world. With all the hype around generative AI, the idea that it is a tool that can enable rather than replace people can get lost. According […]
Unveiling the Dark Web’s Massive Military Data Leak
Introduction to Spectre Several threat groups and actors exist in online cybercrime communities with the express goal of hacktivism, which is defined as the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. These groups are not financially motivated, and are seldom seen […]
Cybercrime group on a data leakage tear through U.S. States
Data Leaks Escalate As Data Leaks continue to mount online this year, dealing massive impacts to the companies and governments they are stolen from, hackers have become increasingly public about their activities and continue to act with impunity in the cybercrime underworld. After being down for a brief period after the arrest of its administrator, […]
What is Your Security Attack Surface?
As businesses and individuals become more reliant on technology, they inadvertently increase their security attack surface – the sum total of all the vulnerabilities that threat actors can exploit. Understanding your security attack surface is essential for developing an effective cybersecurity strategy. By gaining insights into your security attack surface, you can proactively safeguard your […]
