If I had polled cybersecurity experts on their way to work on May 12, 2017, most of them would have said they knew a major cybersecurity event loomed. Yet, on…
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Ransomware 2020: Attack Trends Affecting Organizations Worldwide
Ransomware is one of the most intractable — and common — threats facing organizations across all industries and geographies. And, incidents of ransomware attacks continue to rise. Meanwhile, ransomware threat…
Deciphering Between Incident Management and Crisis Management
Cyber threats come in many forms and can severely impact business operations, brand reputation, financial standing and even lead to a lawsuit. Organizations must prepare to respond and manage cyber…
New Research Exposes Iranian Threat Group’s Operations
IBM X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services (IRIS) has uncovered rare details on the operations of the suspected Iranian threat group ITG18, which overlaps with Charming Kitten and Phosphorous. In the…
COVID-19 Cybercrime Capitalizing on Brazil’s Government Assistance Program
IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) has been tracking cybercrime capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic since January, and has observed the geographical areas of this activity shift over…
Multifactor Authentication: The Next Battleground
X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) has responded to multiple security incidents where multifactor authentication (MFA) was not implemented—but where implementing MFA might have significantly reduced the impact of the incident.…
How Threat Actors Are Adapting to the Cloud
With organizations increasingly moving to cloud environments, cloud security is more critical than ever. Cloud environments often hold large troves of valuable and sensitive data that can put organizations and…
X-Force IRIS Overcomes Broken Decryption Mechanism in Jest Ransomware
IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) recently helped a company fend off a ransomware attack by building a custom decryptor for a strain of ransomware known as “Jest.”…
SBA Spoofed in COVID-19 Spam to Deliver Remcos RAT
Between late March and mid-April 2020, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) uncovered a phishing campaign targeting small businesses that appears to originate from the U.S. Government Small…
TA505 Continues to Infect Networks With SDBbot RAT
IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) responds to security incidents around the globe. During analysis and comparison of malicious activity on enterprise networks, our team identified attacks likely…