Very much like privacy concerns, insider threats may not be the first issue to come to mind when building an enterprise cyber resilience plan. However, they should be. Here is…
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Detections That Can Help You Identify Ransomware
One of the benefits of being part of a global research-driven incident response firm like X-Force Incidence Response (IR) is that the team has the ability to take a step…
How to Report Scam Calls and Phishing Attacks
With incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline infection and the Kaseya supply chain attack making so many headlines these days, it can be easy to forget that malicious actors are…
Trickbot Rising — Gang Doubles Down on Infection Efforts to Amass Network Footholds
IBM X-Force has been tracking the activity of ITG23, a prominent cybercrime gang also known as the TrickBot Gang and Wizard Spider. Researchers are seeing an aggressive expansion of the…
The Real Cost of Ransomware
Ransomware is an expensive cybercrime and getting more so all the time. Payouts have risen massively in the past few years. But while ransomware payment amounts make headlines, the real…
Phishing Attacks Are Top Cyber Crime Threat, Easier Than Ever to Create and Deploy
Why is one of cyber crime’s oldest threats still going strong? The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reports that January 2021 marked an unprecedented high in the APWG’s records, with over…
A Journey in Organizational Cyber Resilience Part 3: Disaster Recovery
Moving along our organizational resilience journey, we focus on disaster recovery (DR), the perfect follow-up to business continuity (BC) The two go hand-in-hand, often referenced as BCDR, and both are…
A Journey in Organizational Cyber Resilience Part 3: Disaster Recovery
Moving along our organizational resilience journey, we focus on disaster recovery (DR), the perfect follow-up to business continuity (BC) The two go hand-in-hand, often referenced as BCDR, and both are…
How to Protect Against Deepfake Attacks and Extortion
Cybersecurity professionals are already losing sleep over data breaches and how to best protect their employers from attacks. Now they have another nightmare to stress over — how to spot…
Cryptominers Snuck Logic Bomb Into Python Packages
Malware can show up where you least expect it. Researchers discovered a logic bomb attack in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, which is code repository for Python developers and…