At BlackBerry, we recognize that in today’s world, security leaders must expand their focus beyond technologies and their vulnerabilities. To effectively manage risk, security leaders must continually analyze the global threat landscape and understand how business decisions can influence their organization’s threat profile. Similarly, business leaders require awareness of how security posture, risk exposure, and […]
Our data and intelligence All the data and intelligence in this report is derived from Flashpoint’s collections and intelligence team. Flashpoint’s collections utilise a mix of technologies that include AI/ML, and NLP models that are internally trained to surface relevant information for each customer. The Flashpoint intelligence team comprises over 100 experts who speak 35
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THREATS ARE CONVERGING, CYCLICAL A growing body of evidence, outlined in this report, demonstrates just how extensively cyber threats are overlapping, intersecting, and relating. Furthermore, we examine why these threats—from the online spaces in which cybercriminals operate to the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) they use to execute their attacks—are cyclical and what that means
The year 2022 was defined by volatile political conflict and economic instability. The war in Ukraine and the escalating events surrounding the conflict sent shockwaves throughout the globe. For many governments, major enterprises, and even smaller organizations, there were disrupted supply chains, setbacks in critical multinational industries, and economic repercussions. Like many organizations operating in
Rethinking Tactics: 2022 Annual Cybersecurity Report Read More »
Security, IT, and other teams tasked with vulnerability management and risk reduction operate in high-urgency, high-stakes environments where informed decision-making hinges on the ability to quickly find signal in a sea of perpetual noise. When a new potential threat emerges, information security professionals often find themselves needing to translate vague descriptions and untested research artifacts
The year 2022 was another tumultuous one for cybersecurity. While there was no shortage of contributing events, among the most significant were the continuing effects of the pandemic and the eruption of the military conflict in Ukraine. Disruption made 2022 a year of economic, geopolitical and human upheaval and cost—creating exactly the kind of chaos
Welcome to the T3 2022 issue of the ESET APT Activity Report! This report summarizes the activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and analyzed by ESET researchers from September until the end of December (T3) 2022. In the monitored timespan, Russia-aligned APT groups continued to be particularly involved in
THREAT INTELLIGENCE CAN BE CONSIDERED “THE ART OF TAKING THE ADVERSARY BY SURPRISE.” ANTICIPATING, MITIGATING, AND PREVENTING SURPRISES IN THE FORM OF CYBERATTACKS IS THE PRIMARY MISSION OF A PRACTICAL THREAT INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM. Achieving that goal requires a proactive approach that answers critical questions like the following: Which threat actors are most likely to cause
Remediation-based, orchestrated, automated and customized threat intelligence is the goal. Most organizations have a few steps to go before reaching that goal. Cyber Security executives have realized that raw data is not intelligence. The discipline is not called Threat Raw Data, it’s called Threat Intelligence. Global corporate enterprise cyber security executives must move past a
Report highlights Top attack type: Ransomware was again the top attack type in 2021, although the percentage of attacks X-Force remediated that were ransomware decreased nearly 9% year-over-year. REvil—a ransomware type X-Force also refers to as Sodinokibi—was the most common ransomware strain X-Force observed for a second year, making up 37% of all ransomware attacks,
