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Slicing through CISA’s KEV Catalog
Slicing through CISA’s KEV Catalog
Dive into the critical insights of CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog with Bitsight’s latest blog! Discover how KEVs, which signal urgent cybersecurity risks, are being tracked and mitigated across industries. Learn why addressing these vulnerabilities quickly is vital and how it impacts organizational security.
Cyber attacks are occurring more frequently and banks, insurance companies, and other financial services firms are prime targets. Due to the nature of these businesses and the sensitivity of their data, financial firms are hit with approximately 300 times more cyber attacks than businesses in other industries.
A new report from the Information Security Forum (ISF) contains some fascinating insights into how hackers probe and exploit people's psychological vulnerabilities to gain access to corporate systems. From phishing to "whaling" (targeting high level executives) to "baiting" (offering something in return for credentials or information), hackers are using several tactics to gain a foothold. They also know the best time to deploy those tactics – at the end of the day, for example, when a person is tired and may not make the best decisions.
Technology companies — along with their partner ecosystems — are some of the most targeted organizations when it comes to cyber-attacks. In 2018, enterprises invested an average of 3.5 million on cloud apps, platforms, and services — making the sensitive information held in those platforms a top target for hackers.
Healthcare is under attack. Hospitals, doctors’ networks, insurance companies, and others are prime targets for hackers due to the valuable protected health information (PHI) they store and the vital role they play in our nation’s critical infrastructure.
Cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated, targeted, and potentially catastrophic. This is particularly true of the most dominant form of cyberattack – ransomware.
Stress and burnout is emerging as perhaps the biggest threat to corporate security. Long hours, alert overload, and a lack of visibility into their IT infrastructure have many security professionals reconsidering their chosen careers.
2019 has already been rife with cybersecurity woes. Unfortunately, as we enter the second half of the year, things are going from bad to worse.
In the weeks since our previous post, we’ve seen development in the security community withthe release of an exploit into a commercial product as well as the announcement of theunreleased integration of an exploit into Rapid7’s Metasploit framework. During this time, wewanted to provide an update of affected machines, but also dive a bit deeper into thecharacteristics of the individual systems that remain exposed and unpatched.
A few weeks ago Google confirmed that there was malware pre-installed on a number of Android devices due to a supply-chain attack. The latest installment was discovered by security researchers from Dr.Web who have been investigating this situation for several years as it was already theorized by security researchers back in July 2017 that these infections originated as part of a supply-chain attack. In this instance, these devices were pre-installed with Triada, a form of Android malware that has been studied and reported on by Kaspersky and most recently Google in its attempt to surface this critical information to users and the wider community.
It’s been five weeks since we first posted about the exposure of the BlueKeep vulnerability on the external networks of many organizations across the world. There have been further developments regarding the capabilities of the vulnerability including that both the DHS developed a working exploit and individuals from the private sector have also developed a remote code exploit. Both of these milestones further demonstrate the risk introduced by this vulnerability and the pressing statements by Microsoft and the NSA to patch.
Today ElevenPaths, the Telefónica Group’s global cybersecurity unit, released a report highlighting cybersecurity trends for the first half of 2019. As a follow-up to a November 2018 report, ElevenPaths again takes a close look at how cybersecurity is trending in Spain and compares statistics for Spain against the whole of Europe.
The aftermath of a cyber breach can be costly. But just how expensive and where the brunt of that financial impact falls has been somewhat unclear, until now.
A little over a month ago, Microsoft discovered a software security vulnerability that could ultimately lead to one of the worst cybersecurity attacks since 2017’s infamous WannaCry ransomware incident.
The past few years have shown us that the cybersecurity landscape has only gotten more complex, as massive attack after massive attack —WannaCry and NotPetya ransomwares, at Uber Technologies in 2016, from the Shadow Brokers group, and many more — jolted enterprises around the world.
There are numerous areas of business and enterprise risk that have been measured for years in a standardized fashion — these include financial risk, market risk, operational risk, legal risk, and even IT risk.