According to Netacea’s latest research ‘The Bot Management Review: the challenge of high awareness and limited understanding’, 95% of financial services surveyed stated that they had experienced a bot attack over the past two years. Since financial services often store highly sensitive and personal information, it is essential that the security measures that they have in place can detect even the most sophisticated of bots.
The Splunk Attack Range project has officially reached the v1.0 release. By achieving this milestone, we wanted to reflect on how we got here, what features we’ve built for v1.0 and what the future looks like for Splunk Attack Range. What is the Splunk Attack Range? 🧐
AT&T Alien Labs closely monitors the evolution of crimeware such as the QakBot malware family and campaigns in connection with QakBot. The jointly coordinated takedown of the actors behind Emotet in late January has left a gap in the cybercrime landscape, which QakBot seems poised to fill.
To understand how often vulnerability scanning should be performed, it’s important to delve into the drivers behind this objective. Vulnerability management includes the treatment of risks identified during the vulnerability assessments. This is a vital element of the risk management regime for any organisation. Without making informed choices around risk appetite, an organisation may not get the best out of a vulnerability management programme.
Teleport has supported multi-factor authentication (MFA) for a while now, via Authenticator Apps (TOTP) and Hardware Tokens (U2F) such as YubiKeys. But this support was pretty limited: you could only choose one MFA protocol and users could only register one device. If a user lost their device, they would be locked out and need an account reset by the administrator. So, for Teleport 6.0, we’ve reimplemented the MFA support to make it more flexible.
Australia recently confirmed that a series of mobile phishing attacks were successfully executed on senior officials. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the targets – which included Australia’s finance minister, health minister and ambassador to the U.S. – were sent messages asking them to validate new WhatsApp or Telegram accounts.
The White House is reportedly moving swiftly forward with a plan to harden the security of the US power grid against hacking attacks. According to Bloomberg, the Biden administration has a plan to dramatically improve how power utilities defend themselves against attacks from countries considered to be adversaries in cyberspace – such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China.
