Why Clustering Malicious Actors Using AI Can Help with Organizational Cyber Risk – Part One
In today’s digital world, malicious actors have access to a multitude of ways to preserve and increase their anonymity online. We recently posted an article highlighting various Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) methods to profile cybercriminals on the darkweb, and you could consider this a follow-up and in-depth dive into the Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technologies we […]
Quick Report: Credit Cards Sold on the Dark Web in 2021
The dark web is home to a vast amount of illicit markets and shops. Although there’s a variety of goods to be purchased on the dark web, one of the most sold resources by volume on the dark web, if not the most sold commodity, is stolen credit cards. Just last week, the largest carding […]
Your Data Has Been Leaked: Do Users Care About Data Leaks?
Data leaks and data breaches can come from anywhere. Data leaks can occur when an employee mistakenly leaves an API key on Github, or when a third party gives the public access to your proprietary information due to a permissions issue, or when a user clicks on a phishing link and gives their personal information […]
Flare’s Insights on Major Cyber Trends From 2021
2020 and 2021 have seen dramatic changes in the way we do business and in turn, the way we protect those businesses and people. Cybersecurity is a fast changing industry where some trends stay, while others simmer out. However, let’s discuss three topics that have been trends or major events for 2021 and will surely […]
What is Data Leakage? How Do You Prevent It?
During 2020, on average every person created at least 1.7 MBs of data per second and around 44 zettabytes of data in terms of the complete digital world. Today, the amount of data we create, distribute, analyze and sell has been increasing at an incredibly fast rate. Due to this increase of potentially sensitive data, […]
ToRReZ Market Shutting Down
Two months after White House Market’s retirement, comes another surprise; ToRReZ, currently the second largest market by the total number of listings, has announced they will be shutting down. After close to two years of operation, on December 17th, 2021, purchasing will be officially disabled as well as a few other essential market functions. ToRReZ […]
What Is an Attack Surface and How do you Reduce it?
What Is An Attack Surface? An attack surface is the total number of all possible attack vectors (or points) where an attacker or unauthorized user can access a system and enter or extract data. Attack surfaces can be split into two different categories. 1. Physical Attack Surface A physical attack surface area for an organization […]
Digital Risk Monitoring: A Quick Introduction
It’s no secret that cyber threats are proliferating. In just the past 12 months, major ransomware attacks such as against Colonial Pipeline and against the U.S. meat industry have resulted in significant real-world impacts. At the same time major software providers such as Solarwinds have been the victim of large scale compromises. To counter the […]
White House Market Is Officially Retiring
Updated: November 26th, 2021 As the article below is a bit out of date, here’s a breakdown of most of the large changes in the dark web marketplace scene: Empire Market exit scammed in August 2020 DarkMarket was sized in January 2021 Yellow Brick exited a few days after DarkMarket BigBlue was seized by Interpol in April […]
What Is Domain Monitoring?
Have you ever received an email from a colleague but in your gut felt that something was off? The spelling or grammar in the body of the message may have looked off, or the signature line different from past emails. Your spam filter may have even caught the email and flagged it as a potential […]
