Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The Arctic Wolf team is having a great time in Boston at AWS re:Inforce 2022. What a wonderful show! It has been thrilling to connect with industry leaders and AWS experts from across the world–and it was equally thrilling for us to announce that Arctic Wolf has achieved the newly introduced Level 1 MSSP specialization in Digital Forensics Incident Response (DFIR).

On Thursday, July 21, 2022, SonicWall disclosed a critical severity vulnerability – CVE-2022-22280 – impacting their Analytics On-Prem and Global Management System (GMS) products, which are used for central management and deployment of SonicWall firewalls, email security, remote access, and other solutions.

On Wednesday, July 20, 2022, Cisco disclosed a critical severity vulnerability – CVE-2022-20857 – impacting Cisco Nexus Dashboard, an integrated dashboard used for visibility and provisioning data center and cloud network infrastructure. If successfully exploited, the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote threat actor to execute arbitrary commands as the root user in any pod on a node.

On Wednesday, July 20, 2022, Atlassian released patches to remediate two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26136 and CVE-2022-26137) that impact how Atlassian products implement Servlet Filters and could lead to unauthenticated authentication bypass, cross-site scripting (XSS), or cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) bypass depending on the filters used by each impacted product.

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is an annual publication that provides an analysis of information security incidents, with a specific focus on data breaches. Verizon has been publishing this report on an annual basis since 2008.

Organizations are moving workloads to the cloud to help keep pace with the speed of innovation. However, too often this is done without a proper plan in place to ensure that their security doesn’t fall behind. The potential financial and reputational damage, as well as the risk of lost data from a breach is massive, and that makes proper planning crucial.

Temperatures rose in June, and the threat of serious cyber attacks soared along with them. The start of summer saw revelations of major breaches in confidential medical information, a case study for changing-up hacked passwords, another round of victimization for people whose data has already been sold once before, and one high-profile threat to undermine an entire democracy. Let’s take a closer look at these troubling instances, plus one controversial effort to rein in the crimewave.

Cyber insurance has become increasingly expensive for most policyholders. Various organizations, including industry heavyweights such as Aon who have predicted premium hikes between 20% and 50% this year. There are even reports of premium increases as high as 1,000% for organizations with the highest risk. Unfortunately, many of these premium increases occur with little warning, often within a few weeks of a policy renewal.

On Wednesday, June 29, 2022, Horizon3.ai published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that targets CVE-2022-28219, a critical attack chain that includes unauthenticated XML External Entities (XXE), Java deserialization, and path traversal vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) if successfully chained together. CVE-2022-28219 impacts Zoho’s ManageEngine ADAudit Plus builds prior to 7060. ManageEngine patched CVE-2022-28219 on March 30, 2022.

Each quarter, Tetra Defense, an Arctic Wolf company, collects and analyzes data and insights from its incident response engagements in the United States. These statistics are a vital part of assessing the cyber threat landscape at large and are intended to guide underwriting strategies, loss prevention programs, broker advisement, and client security priorities.