Emerging Threats

Defending Healthcare: Trustwave’s Dedication to Fight Cyber Threats to Patient Safety 2024-08-15 at 18:31 By Hospitals face a challenging dilemma: delivering the highest quality of medical care while shielding patient and family data from ever-evolving cyber threats, all while ensuring that critical operations continue uninterrupted. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original […]

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Harris-Trump Presidential Election: Looking at the Threats and Cybersecurity Challenges 2024-08-14 at 21:16 By Jose Luis Riveros With less than three months to go until the 2024 US presidential election and with possible cyberattacks and data leaks already impacting campaign activities, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Microsoft have issued separate reports on the tactics they see being

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Placing Threat Groups Under a Microscope: Lapsus$ 2024-08-02 at 17:01 By This report is the first in a series of blogs that will delve into the deep research the SpiderLabs Threat Intelligence team conducts daily on the major threat actor groups currently operating globally. The information gathered is part of a data repository to help

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CISA-FBI Issue Security Warning for Chinese-Manufactured Drones 2024-08-01 at 21:46 By Allen Numerick Drones are becoming ubiquitous. They are sold as toys, used in industry, and as weapons of war, so the possibility of one becoming co-opted by a threat actor could result in severe damage, disruption of services, or data theft. This article is

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Trustwave SpiderLabs: SYS01 and Rilide Linked to Same Actor 2024-07-31 at 16:07 By Drawing on extensive proprietary research, Trustwave SpiderLabs believes the threat actors behind the Facebook malvertising infostealer SYS01 are the same group that developed the previously reported Rilide malware. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this

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Is it Time to Rethink Your Security Stack? 2024-07-26 at 16:01 By The cybersecurity threat landscape is constantly evolving, requiring organizations to regularly evaluate their security stack to ensure it not only offers the highest level of protection, but is operated by a firm with a long track record of developing, implementing, and properly maintaining

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Trustwave Response: CrowdStrike Falcon Outage Update 2024-07-19 at 23:16 By Trustwave is proactively assessing and monitoring our clients who may have been impacted by CrowdStrike’s recently rolled-out update for its Windows users. The critical issue identified with CrowdStrike Falcon may result in a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) on Windows systems, affecting systems worldwide in

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How Cybercriminals Use Breaking News for Phishing Attacks 2024-07-19 at 23:16 By Trustwave SpiderLabs issued a warning that threat actors may attempt to take advantage of CrowdStrike’s software update that caused widespread outages by using the news as the center of a social engineering scheme to convince people to open malicious phishing emails or fall for other

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Trustwave SpiderLabs: The Unique Factors that Make Professional Services a Target 2024-07-08 at 17:01 By Trustwave SpiderLabs has put together nine vertical threat reports over the past 12 months, but in its most recent effort, the 2024 Professional Services Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies report, our team of elite researchers delve into one

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CDK Global Cyber Incident Shows the Need for Better Supply Chain Security 2024-06-27 at 16:01 By CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks on June 19. These attacks led to an outage that continued to impact many of their sales operations on Friday, according to the

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Ransomware, Supply Chain & Tech Threats Explode – 2024 Trustwave SpiderLabs Report 2024-06-26 at 16:01 By Trustwave SpiderLabs, in its just-released report 2024 Professional Services Threat Landscape: Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing and Mitigation Strategies, has uncovered an increasing number of ransomware, third-party supplier, and technology-based attacks targeting the professional services sector. This article is an

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How Deepfakes May Impact Upcoming Elections Worldwide 2024-06-18 at 16:02 By Jose Luis Riveros The common fear regarding election interference is that a threat actor will gain access to either ballot machines or the networks that tally votes. However, there is a much easier method a person interested in interfering with a specific election can

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How Trustwave Protects Your Databases in the Wake of Recent Healthcare Data Breaches 2024-06-11 at 18:01 By The recent cyberattack on Ascension Medical, Change Healthcare and several UK hospitals is a stark reminder of the vulnerabilities within the healthcare sector. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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How Managed Detection and Response Helps Protect Against Threats from Cloud Sprawl 2024-06-10 at 16:16 By As businesses continue to rely on cloud services for all sorts of applications, computing, and storage services, each with its APIs, they dramatically increase their attack surface. It’s a situation that results in prime breeding grounds for cyber threats

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911 S5 Botnet Operation Disruption Highlights the Need for MDR and Email Security 2024-06-03 at 16:02 By A major botnet operation that controlled an estimated 19 million IP addresses and was responsible for $99 million in illegal gains was shut down this week, and an international law enforcement operation arrested its primary operator. This article

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8 Reasons to Conduct Regular Vulnerability Scans 2024-05-31 at 16:16 By Vulnerability scanning is a critical component of any robust Offensive Security strategy. When combined with penetration testing and Red Team exercises, they can serve as an early warning system to identify potential security weaknesses and provide an organization with the breathing room needed to implement changes before they are discovered

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ChatGPT: A Tool for Attackers and Defenders 2024-05-30 at 21:01 By Jason Whyte ChatGPT impresses everyone with its writing capabilities; however, its proficiency in understanding and generating human-like text has inadvertently empowered threat actors to produce realistic and error-free phishing emails, which can be challenging to detect. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog

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Growing Attack Surfaces Highlight the Need for Managed Detection and Response Services 2024-05-28 at 16:02 By One reason organizations have difficulty defending against cyber threats is their attack surfaces are constantly growing, creating more entry points for bad actors to target. And target they will, creating an onslaught of alerts that drive the need for

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Email Security Must Remain a Priority in the Wake of the LabHost Takedown and BEC Operator’s Conviction 2024-05-22 at 21:02 By Two positive steps were taken last month to limit the damage caused by phishing and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks when a joint action by UK and EU law enforcement agencies compromised the infrastructure

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Using Trustwave DbProtect and Offensive Security Solutions to Protect Against Nation-State Cyber Threats 2024-05-16 at 16:01 By The US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) earlier this month gave a stark warning to the Senate Armed Services Committee detailing the cyberthreats arrayed against the US and the world from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran. This

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