AlphaLock, Threat Actor Branding, and the World of Cybercrime Marketing
Threat actors are not a monolith in their approach to cybercrime. The popular perception is that threat actors steal information for the sake of it, while knowing and accepting that they are doing something wrong. However, some threat actors also justify their actions by promoting an image that their activity ethically advances the cause of […]
Ransomware in Context: 2024, A Year of Tumultuous Change
2024 has started off dramatic shifts in the ransomware landscape. In December of 2023 international law enforcement took down the BlackCat leaks site, leading to the group removing all ethical restrictions for their affiliates and declaring all organizations in Western Europe and the United States viable targets to include nuclear power plants and childrens hospitals. […]
Threat Spotlight: Data Extortion Ransomware Threats
Over the last few years, the ransomware landscape has changed significantly. Between 2022 and 2023, ransomware attacks increased by more than 100% year-over-year, with more attacks consisting of double and triple extortion. At a high level, the categories of ransomware can be defined as: Modern ransomware attacks are no longer a lone individual sitting at […]
Mettre en œuvre une gestion continue de l’exposition aux menaces : un guide rapide pour 2024
This year, Gartner named “Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)” as one of the top trends for Optimizing for Resilience. This is a response to increasing attack surfaces and thus cybercrime, and is the approach that best suits the evolving threat landscape. Organizations’ attack surfaces have exponentially increased over the past few years largely due to […]
Cyberguerre moderne : attaques DDoS participatives
Over the past few years, politically motivated threat actors have increasingly gone online to find allies for their causes. While ten years ago most hactivism like this was anonymous, modern actors favoring certain political elements or governments leverage a broader ecosystem. Since Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks require little technical skill, they offer a […]
Aperçu initial des courtiers d’accès dans les États membres de l’OTAN sur le forum Exploit
Initial access brokers (IABs) gain unauthorized access to the system then sell this access to other malicious actors. Based on a large sample of IAB posts on the Russian-language hacking forum Exploit.in (Exploit), IABs increasingly target entities within NATO member states, with research revealing recent activity in 21 of 31 countries. Additionally, access to organizations […]
Sécurité de la chaîne d'approvisionnement et NIS2 : ce que vous devez savoir
The Network Information Systems Directive (NIS2) and its predecessor NIS focus on risk management for organizations. The EU states that the NIS is the first piece of EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity with the goal of achieving a high common level of cybersecurity across the member states. The NIS2 will be quite impactful, especially as it […]
Gestion des risques liés à la cybersécurité par les tiers : un petit guide pour 2024
Third-parties are an important part of your extended enterprise. They’re your vendors, your partners, and your suppliers. They provide some of your business’s most critical services: billing, data storage, or sales. Unfortunately, vendors and suppliers also come along with significant third party cybersecurity risk. Early in January, Gartner named third-party risk cyber management (TPCRM) a […]
Conformité NIS2 : mise à jour pour 2024, guide complet
The Network Information Systems Directive (NIS) was published in 2016 and required EU critical infrastructure sectors to meet basic cybersecurity compliance requirements. In October 2024 the second iteration of the Network Information Systems Directive (NIS2) will be going into effect, which will both substantially expand the number of entities required to be compliant in addition […]
Pleins feux sur les menaces : nouvelle frontière des exploits de l'IA
À mesure que l’apprentissage automatique (ML) et l’intelligence artificielle (IA) deviennent de plus en plus complexes, ils ouvrent de nouvelles possibilités aux organisations et aux acteurs de la menace. Au cours des quinze dernières années, les réseaux de neurones et les technologies d’apprentissage profond ont évolué à un rythme rapide. Au cours des quatre dernières années, depuis la sortie de GPT1 jusqu'à GPT4 aujourd'hui, les modèles d'IA ont évolué de […]
