Veeam Software announced the acquisition of Coveware, a provider in cyber-extortion incident response. It brings ransomware recovery and first responder capabilities to further strengthen Veeam’s radical resilience solutions for customers. Coveware by Veeam will continue to operate as it does today, providing incident response services to victims of cyber extortion attacks as well as working […]
A recent incident in West Africa has once again brought attention to the persistent threat posed by the LockBit ransomware. Cybercriminals, armed with stolen administrator credentials, have deployed a customized variant of the encryption malware equipped with self-propagation capabilities. Exploiting privileged access, they breached corporate infrastructure, demonstrating the ongoing risk posed by the leaked LockBit […]
The public draft – titled Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 Community Profile, was published by NIST on April 3. The agency is seeking public comments on the draft through May 20.
Apr 03, 2024NewsroomData Breach / Incident Response The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year. The findings, released by the Department of Homeland […]
Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) has observed the ongoing use of legitimate digital document publishing (DDP) sites for phishing, credential theft and session token theft during recent incident response and threat intelligence engagements. Hosting phishing lures on DDP sites increases the likelihood of a successful phishing attack, since these sites often have a favorable […]
Microsoft/ Tech / Microsoft’s nation-state security incident continues to be a headache for the company. By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012. Illustration: The Verge Microsoft revealed earlier this year that Russian state-sponsored hackers […]
The European Union (EU) has agreed new rules to strengthen cyber incident response and recovery across member states, which has been dubbed the ‘cyber solidarity act.’ The provisional regulation aims to make the EU more resilient and reactive to cyber threats via new cooperation mechanisms. This includes the establishment of an EU-wide cybersecurity alert system, […]
Feb 29, 2024The Hacker NewsAttack Surface / Incident Response As an IT leader, staying on top of the latest cybersecurity developments is essential to keeping your organization safe. But with threats coming from all around — and hackers dreaming up new exploits every day — how do you create proactive, agile cybersecurity strategies? And what […]
Incident response (IR) is a race against time. You engage your internal or external team because there’s enough evidence that something bad is happening, but you’re still blind to the scope, the impact, and the root cause. The common set of IR tools and practices provides IR teams with the ability to discover malicious files […]