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Snyk Code is turning one! We’ve hit so many milestones in the last 12 months, and today we invite you to look back, celebrate, and peer into the future of code security with us.

Emotet started as a banking trojan in 2014 and later evolved to what has been considered the world’s most dangerous malware by Europol, often used throughout the world to deliver many different threats, including TrickBot. In October 2020, Netskope analyzed an Emotet campaign that was using PowerShell and WMI within malicious Office documents to deliver its payload. Later in 2021, we also spotted new delivery mechanisms being used, including squiblytwo.

Yesterday, the Elastic Security Research Team released a detailed report outlining technical details regarding the BLISTER launcher, a sophisticated campaign that we uncovered in December 2021. This latest release continues on research we’ve developed while observing the campaign over the last few months — specifically pertaining to the technical details of how the group behind this payload is able to stay under the radar and evade detection for many new samples identified.

Ready to secure government applications? Start with Zero Trust. Trust is the foundation of successful relationships. We want to trust our friends, companies, government, etc., and be trusted in return. But, sometimes mistrust better serves us. A few years ago, the cyber world adopted an approach to security known as trust-but-verify. A simplistic approach, it delivered innovative digital services to consumers – securely and efficiently.

In the recent ​​MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation, CrowdStrike demonstrated the power of its unified platform approach to stopping breaches. Facing attack emulations from the highly sophisticated WIZARD SPIDER and VOODOO BEAR (Sandworm Team) adversaries, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform: The results show that CrowdStrike stands alone in providing a unified approach to stopping adversaries from progressing attacks.

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The idea behind World Password Day is simple: to promote the use of strong, unique passwords to keep your accounts protected and your browsing safe. For those of you wondering how best to celebrate the day, we’ve got a challenge for you: how high can you get your 1Password Watchtower score? While a high Watchtower score won’t give you access to better loan rates, it will give you peace of mind. Not to mention some bragging rights, too.

Over US $43 billion has been lost through Business Email Compromise attacks since 2016, according to data released this week by the FBI. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a public service announcement on May 4 2022, sharing updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

Today, Calligo announced that we have partnered with BigID. The BigID data intelligence platform enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, security, and governance. This partnership will enable Calligo to provide clients with the ability to proactively discover, manage, protect, and gain more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape.