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…
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X-Force Report: No Shortage of Resources Aimed at Hacking Cloud Environments
As cybercriminals remain steadfast in their pursuit of unsuspecting ways to infiltrate today’s businesses, a new report by IBM Security X-Force highlights the top tactics of cybercriminals, the open doors…
How Companies Can Prepare for Botnet Attacks on APIs
Organizations aren’t slowing down in their use of application programming interfaces (APIs). According to a survey covered by DEVOPSdigest, 61.3% of organizations used more APIs in 2020 than they did…
5 Ways to Use Microlearning to Educate Your Employees About Cybersecurity
Trying to learn large amounts of information in one sitting is often overwhelming and leads to lower retention. Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus found in studying himself in the 1800s that only…
LockBit 2.0: Ransomware Attacks Surge After Successful Affiliate Recruitment
After a brief slowdown in activity from the LockBit ransomware gang following increased attention from law enforcement, LockBit is back with a new affiliate program, improved payloads and a change…
Analysis of Diavol Ransomware Reveals Possible Link to TrickBot Gang
Ransomware has become the number one cyber threat to organizations, making up nearly 25% of attacks IBM X-Force Incident Response remediated in 2020. Ransomware is making headlines on a regular…
Analysis of Diavol Ransomware Reveals Possible Link to TrickBot Gang
Ransomware has become the number one cyber threat to organizations, making up nearly 25% of attacks IBM X-Force Incident Response remediated in 2020. Ransomware is making headlines on a regular…
ITG18: Operational Security Errors Continue to Plague Sizable Iranian Threat Group
This blog supplements a Black Hat USA 2021 talk given August 2021. IBM Security X-Force threat intelligence researchers continue to track the infrastructure and activity of a suspected Iranian threat…
Data Breach Costs at Record High, Zero Trust, AI and Automation Help Reduce Costs
Data breaches have been growing in numbers and scale, taking longer to detect and contain. The average total cost of a data breach is at its highest of 17 years,…
What’s New in the 2021 Cost of a Data Breach Report
Has cybersecurity ever been more important than it is right now? Even in these extraordinary times, with its focus on manufacturing vaccines and getting shots into arms, new research in…