Recent statistics show that 60% of businesses are forced to suspend operations after a cyber-attack are never able to reopen for business. This is largely due to revenue lost due to downtime as well as damage to the company’s reputation. The good news is that most of these threats can be mitigated with reliable cybersecurity. When it comes to cyberattacks, time is of the essence.

As technological solutions to cybercrime become increasingly advanced, able to preempt attacks and weed out vulnerabilities before they’re widely known, attackers also become more adept at cloaking their presence and concealing their intent. The targets of attacks also change with the times.

Organizations of all sizes have made considerable shifts to using cloud-based infrastructure for their day-to-day business operations. However, cloud security hasn't always kept up with cloud adoption, and that leaves security gaps that hackers are more than happy to take advantage of.

Threat actors are always one step ahead, so after ransomware and cryptojacking, they have latched to a new, high-return attack: formjacking. Incidents of formjacking attacks – where hackers inject malicious JavaScript code into a website to skim data – rose steadily in the second half of last year. These small lines of code are very hard to detect but very effective. While formjacking can scrape data from any element of web browsing, it’s mostly targeted at ecommerce sites.

MITRE ATT&CK™ (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Common Knowledge) is a framework for understanding attackers’ behaviors and actions. We are pleased to announce that AlienVault USM Anywhere and Open Threat Exchange (OTX) now include MITRE ATT&CK™ information. By mapping alarms to their corresponding ATT&CK techniques, we are assisting in prioritizing analysis work by understanding the context and scope of an attack.

“We’re under attack” may be the three least favorite words of every cybersecurity professional out there. Luckily, for USA Today, this doesn’t happen often, however, last year one of our 115 media markets was targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

With connectivity to the outside world growing, cyber attacks on industrial computers constitute an extremely dangerous threat, as these types of incidents can cause material losses and production downtime for a whole system. Moreover, industrial enterprises knocked out of service can seriously undermine a region’s social welfare, ecology and macroeconomics. Not surprisingly, cybersecurity is therefore becoming more and more important across the board.

Chances are you’ve heard of traditional credential-based attacks on Active Directory (AD) and cloud applications—brute force attacks, dictionary attacks, and keylogging, to name a few. There’s now another attack type you should familiarize yourself with: password spray attacks. In this blog, we’ll analyze why you should be wary of them and the best way to tackle them.

A 2015 internet security report found that 60% of cyber attacks were aimed at small to medium-sized businesses.