Daniel Dobrowolski, David V Gioe and Alicia Wanless argue that enforcing heavy moderation of content is counterproductive and that civic education, transparency and ongoing research into the methods that threat actors use are essential to guide an effective response and provide original research towards...
Bad IP Address (IPv4 and IPv6):Security teams should investigate odd connections to unfamiliar IP addresses. IP spoofing is no secret, and IPs could originate from servers compromised by threat actors or belonging to botnets responsible for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Uniform Reso...
Whether you are facing a pandemic, designing a product, managing a property, or whatever, you will find that Threat Modeling is a very helpful and methodical way to explore and identify potential risks. In this article, I’m going to use the example of Threat Modeling an app to make it ...
“Insider threat mitigation programs need to be able to detect and identify improper or illegal actions, assess threats to determine levels of risk, and implement solutions to manage and mitigate the potential consequences of an insider incident,” CISA stated. “Organizations should form a...
billion faces. So the ultimate faces that would be used in those projects would not, in fact, be the likeness of a single actor. So I think the concern may be slightly overblown there, even though I can see the actors' point that they want to be very careful to protect their l...
If you have on-premises AD, use the investigation tool Tenable.AD to identify weaknesses and misconfigurations. Kerberoast golden ticket attack Kerberoast is another attack sequence threat actors use. No logging is done in the domain to document the attack until the attacker has a golden tic...
Threat actors Cobalt Strike Credential theft moreCryptocurrency miners are typically associated with cybercriminal operations, not sophisticated nation state actor activity. They are not the most sophisticated type of threats, which also means that they are not among th...
You should identify the IP address and port the attacker is using to send the authentication requests. One port, in particular, RDP or port 3389 has been one of the most commonly targeted ports by threat actors, especially given the recent rise of remote workers. After connecting to this tar...
For example, threat actors may use brute force attacks, credential stuffing, or other forms of social engineering to gain unauthorized access to computing systems. More sophisticated attacks, like advanced persistent threats (APTs), employ various techniques and vectors to gain unauthorized access to ...
Apenetration testperformed by cyber security experts can help you see where your company stands against threat actors. Pentesting simulates a cyber attack against your organization to identify vulnerabilities. Social engineering testingis a form of penetration testing that uses social engineering tactics ...