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Spear phishing, as the name implies, involves attempting to catch a specific fish. A spear phishing email includes information specific to the recipient to convince them to take the action the attacker wants them to take. This starts with the recipient’s name and may include information about their job or personal life that the attackers…

But incidents such as these quickly lead to a loss of trust in the cybercriminal world and partners will quickly move on to the next program. This effect has been visible in LockBit’s recent activity. According to GuidePoint’s statistics, LockBit still accounted for 60% of ransomware incidents in March, but its market share dropped to…

LogRhythm and Exabeam announce plan to merge May 15: Security intelligence and analytics firm LogRhythm, owned by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, will merge with competitor Exabeam, a provider of AI-driven security operations. “The combined company will leverage the complementary strengths from each organization to take AI-driven security operations to new heights,” Thoma Bravo…

The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions. Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is…

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds significant promise to increase productivity across business functions, and cybersecurity is no exception. Arguably no area of the security operation is more poised to benefit from AI than the security operations center (SOC). Today’s SOC teams manage a constant onslaught of attacks while navigating a complex and fragmented tooling landscape, an…

That means that CISOs should make sure that systems are trying to differentiate between automated and manual attacks. And to then examine manual attacks very carefully, Harrigan said. CISOs should “spend extra time” examining the manual attack attempts, he said, as doing so may give the security operations center a sneak preview of a zero-day,…

Mark Tauschek, vice president of research fellowships and distinguished analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, sees the new class of Windows computers leveraging Copilot a logical next step for Microsoft, especially given the rise of AI-enabled attacks. “The only way to defend against AI-enabled attacks is with AI-enabled defenses,” he said. “Leveraging OpenAI in Azure and…

Well-known ransomware gang LockBit has been usurped as the world’s top ransomware gang, according to a recent report from NCC Group. For the past eight months, LockBit has led the world in ransomware attacks. But the group had its assets seized in February in connection with a crackdown by The National Crime Agency of the UK, working…