Written by: Joseph Salazar, Technical Marketing Engineer - A significant reminder of the SolarWinds attack, attackers have once again targeted a trusted software vendor, this time Kaseya, to compromise hundreds of businesses and deploy ransomware. There are reports that the REvil ransomware group was behind...
Author: Venu Vissamsetty, V.P Security Research, Attivo Networks -The recent Hafnium attacks drew attention to several Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities, but other groups are taking advantage of these to launch ransomware attacks. Attackers are targeting enterprises exploiting the four recent Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-26855,...
While cyberattacks targeting large corporations or government agencies tend to make splashy headlines, the truth is that many attackers are shifting their priorities to focus on small businesses. Unfortunately, these smaller businesses generally lack the resources and security capabilities of larger organizations. In fact, 83%...
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Vikram Navali, Senior Technical Product Manager - The tactics employed by adversaries are as varied as their motives. Some prefer spear-phishing, while others make use of malware, executing targeted attacks. However, the result is inevitably the same: getting unprivileged access to shared resources like files, folders,...
Educational institutions face a variety of cybersecurity challenges related to the current extended remote learning reality. Not only do they face diverse attack surfaces to secure, but they often do not have control of the devices connecting to the network and lack the budgets or...
Written by: Joseph Salazar, Technical Marketing Manager & Juan Carlos Vázquez, Sales Manager -The Active Directory (AD) infrastructure remains critical in so-called “human-operated” ransomware campaigns and post-compromise extortion, which represents a significant threat to businesses and a detection challenge in the short time they have...
What sort of threat landscape, both current and emerging trends, have you seen in the region and how are they evolving? The continuing digitization efforts in the Middle East, along with the increased demand and emphasis on remote learning, have added to the growing risk...
Cyber Monday is a critical online event for retailers. Last year, research conducted by Adobe Analytics found that Cyber Monday brought in $9.4 billion in sales, including $3 billion from mobile customers alone. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic leaving many customers wary of entering brick-and-mortar...
Author: Biju Varghese, Technical Product Manager - Adversaries are adopting creative methods in these COVID-19 epidemic conditions to gain access to company assets. Ransomware is one such creative digital form of extortion that affects companies of all sizes. One prevalent method adversaries use to compromise and...