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REvil: Analysis of Competing Hypotheses

July 28, 2021 | 15 Min Read

Until the 13th of July, 2021, things appeared to be going as expected with the threat actors behind REvil (AKA...

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Getting Started With Domain Monitoring Part 3: Remediation

July 27, 2021 | 5 Min Read

This blog is taken from our recent Domain Monitoring Solutions Guide, which provides best practices and free tools to begin...

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SearchLight Reduces Domain Triage by 75%

July 21, 2021 | 5 Min Read

If you’re curious on domain monitoring, our Domain Monitoring Solutions Guide can give you a breakdown of the most common...

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Cyber Threats to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

July 21, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Just a few weeks ago, Digital Shadows published a blog written by yours truly that analyzed the cyber threats to...

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Q2 Ransomware Roll Up

July 20, 2021 | 9 Min Read

With the closing of another quarter, it’s once again time to have a look back at the cyber threat landscape...

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REvil Ransomware: What’s Next?

July 15, 2021 | 10 Min Read

When ransomware hits the news cycle, and even the non-cyber security folk have questions, you know it’s gone big. This...

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Kaseya Attack Update: What’s Happened Since?

July 14, 2021 | 6 Min Read

A little over a week ago, we wrote a bit about what we knew about the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operator group...

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Why Domains Matter: Impersonations and Your Brand

July 13, 2021 | 9 Min Read

Recently, we’ve released a few articles on typosquatting, Getting Started with Domain Monitoring Part I, and Part II and a...

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Marketo: A Return to Simple Extortion

July 8, 2021 | 9 Min Read

The world of ransomware and cyber extortion continues to change dramatically. On the one hand, new ransomware variants and data...

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Getting Started with Domain Monitoring Part 2: Detection

July 7, 2021 | 4 Min Read

This blog is taken from our recent Domain Monitoring Solutions Guide, which provides best practices and free tools to begin...

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Kaseya Ransomware Supply-Chain Attack: What We Know So Far

July 5, 2021 | 7 Min Read

On 02 July 2021, details started to emerge of a sophisticated supply-chain attack targeting Kaseya VSA, virtual system administrator software...

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Typosquatting Protection 101

July 1, 2021 | 6 Min Read

What is typosquatting? Typosquatting, also known as domain squatting or URL hijacking, is a type of malicious domain-impersonation attack where...

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Getting Started with Domain Monitoring: Part 1, Collection

June 30, 2021 | 4 Min Read

This blog is taken from our recent Domain Monitoring Solutions Guide, which provides best practices and free tools to begin...

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What We’re Reading This Month

June 29, 2021 | 6 Min Read

Ransomware, ransomware, RANSOMWARE! We can’t get away from it. Certainly there’s a fear that focusing too much on one threat...

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Why Do Users Get Banned from Cybercriminal Forums?

June 24, 2021 | 13 Min Read

Cybersecurity reporting tends to focus on stories about governments and law enforcement agencies moving to catch the threat actors responsible...

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Threat Actors Living Off the Land

June 23, 2021 | 10 Min Read

Don’t underestimate your adversary—there are some security practitioners out there who might dismiss your everyday hackers and threat actors as...

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Let’s Talk About Intel Requirements

June 17, 2021 | 7 Min Read

At Digital Shadows we get excited about intelligence. In fact, we’ve talked about it more than once before. One of...

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Key Findings from our Dark Web Monitoring Webinar

June 16, 2021 | 3 Min Read

A few weeks ago, we hosted a webinar on Dark Web Monitoring. I was taken aback that, even a year...

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Cyber Threats to the Online Gaming Industry

June 15, 2021 | 5 Min Read

Last week, Motherboard reported that source code for FIFA 21 had been stolen from EA sports by hackers. This was...

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Cyber Threats to the UEFA EURO 2020 Championship

June 9, 2021 | 7 Min Read

When I was first asked to write a blog about the UEFA EURO 2020 Championship, I immediately imagined going through...

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The Business of Extortion: How Ransomware Makes Money

June 9, 2021 | 8 Min Read

We can’t stop talking about it: Ransomware. It’s dominating a lot of security news for sure, which also means it’s...

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Cryptocurrency Attacks to be Aware of in 2021

June 8, 2021 | 10 Min Read

It’s been a pretty big year so far for cryptocurrency. After it reached an all-time high in April 2021, new...

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On the Rise: Ransomware and the Legal Services Sector

June 3, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Ransomware has continued to dominate the headlines, new attacks, new groups, new data leak sites, and new tactics. Quarter over...

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The Top Three Cybercrime Takeaways from the 2021 Verizon DBIR

June 2, 2021 | 4 Min Read

The 2021 DBIR is still hot off the press, and it did not disappoint. For many years, Verizon’s Data Breach...

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Cyber Attacks: The Challenge of Attribution and Response

June 1, 2021 | 11 Min Read

In December 2020, the world was rocked by an enormous supply chain attack against software provider Solarwinds, which provided unprecedented...

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What We’re Reading This Month

May 26, 2021 | 6 Min Read

As intelligence analysts, our day-to-day is looking at lots of different information and discovering trends or different viewpoints. The research...

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Death and Decay: How Cybercriminal Platforms Meet Their End

May 26, 2021 | 12 Min Read

At Digital Shadows, we’re constantly monitoring the status of cybercriminal locations on the clear, deep, and dark web. It’s a...

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How the Intelligence Cycle Can Help Defend Against Ransomware Attack

May 25, 2021 | 14 Min Read

When Tolkien first sat down to write Lord of the Rings, he probably never imagined it would go on for...

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Ransomware-as-a-Service, Rogue Affiliates, and What’s Next

May 20, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Generating a chain of unforeseen events, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has drastically altered the broader cyber threat landscape as...

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10 Milestones Celebrating 10 Years of Digital Shadows

May 19, 2021 | 6 Min Read

2021 marks a bright and beautiful new beginning for many of us, as lockdown measures relax and we emerge from...

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Examining Russian-language Cybercriminal Marketplaces

May 18, 2021 | 10 Min Read

Our blogs have covered the fate of numerous cybercriminal marketplaces on the clear, deep, and dark web over the years....

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Colonial Pipeline Attack Update: Cybercriminal forum XSS, Exploit and RaidForums ban all things ransomware

May 14, 2021 | 8 Min Read

One week ago, on 07 May 2021, members of the DarkSide ransomware affiliate program encrypted infrastructure belonging to the US...

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How Cybercriminals Can Leverage Your Vaccination Card Selfie

May 13, 2021 | 6 Min Read

Gotta do it for the ‘Gram (Instagram), as the kids might say. After a year in quarantine, you just got...

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Mapping MITRE ATT&CK to the WannaCry Campaign

May 12, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Learning from past mistakes is a crucial part of every job. Four years after WannaCry’s outbreak, analyzing which weak security...

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Bitcoin and Alternative Cryptos in the Cybercriminal Underground

May 11, 2021 | 10 Min Read

The popularity of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies continue to progress in the modern-day, with drastically surging valuations. Notably, Bitcoin surpassed its...

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Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack: What we know so far

May 10, 2021 | 5 Min Read

On 07 May 2021, a ransomware attack impacted the network of the US energy operator Colonial Pipeline disrupting operations and...

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Creating Security-Aware Passwords

May 6, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Note: This blog is an overview of password history and best practices for individuals in honor of World Password Day,...

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The Top 5 Dark Web Monitoring Use Cases

May 5, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Note: This article is an excerpt from our just-released Dark Web Monitoring Solutions Guide. You can get a free copy...

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The Technology Adoption Lifecycle of Genesis Market

May 4, 2021 | 5 Min Read

This blog highlights work from Digital Shadows’ recently-published Dark Web Monitoring Solutions Guide. The guide outlines some of the most...

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Tracking Ransomware within SearchLight

April 29, 2021 | 4 Min Read

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. As we predicted last year, ransomware has been one of the most successful...

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The Dark Web Response to COVID Vaccinations

April 28, 2021 | 8 Min Read

There is light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel: Countries are now beginning a gradual return to normalcy thanks...

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Digital Shadows and XSOAR Powering Automation

April 26, 2021 | 5 Min Read

So you’ve got some threat intelligence here, firewall logs, XDR logs, logs from there, alerts from there, digital risk information...

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The Top 5 ShadowTalk Episodes of All Time

April 22, 2021 | 4 Min Read

On 29 April 2020, the Photon Research team Digital Shadows will record our 200th episode of ShadowTalk, our own weekly...

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The Emotet Shutdown Explained

April 22, 2021 | 5 Min Read

Covered in our previous article on Emotet’s Disruption, Emotet has been seized by law enforcement. Authorities that managed to seize...

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Q1 Vulnerability Roundup

April 20, 2021 | 8 Min Read

In the first quarter of 2021, several high-severity vulnerabilities were used as a conduit to solicit several malicious campaigns. This...

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Q1 Ransomware Roundup

April 14, 2021 | 9 Min Read

Consistency is the first word that springs to mind when assessing ransomware activity throughout the Q1 of 2021. There have...

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Initial Access Brokers Listings Increasing in 2021

April 13, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Since we first published our report Initial Access Brokers: An Excess of Access, Digital Shadows has continued to monitor this...

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The Facebook Data Leak Explained

April 8, 2021 | 8 Min Read

This weekend press exposed a significant data leakage containing the records of 533 million Facebook users. The records were posted...

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Applying MITRE ATT&CK to your CTI Program

April 7, 2021 | 5 Min Read

In recent years, there’s been an industry-wide movement to look more externally to predict, prevent, and adapt to threats. This...

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New Release: Actionable Threat Intelligence with SearchLight

April 6, 2021 | 4 Min Read

This year interest in cyber threat intelligence has risen to an all-time high. High profile events such as the Solarwinds...

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The Microsoft Exchange Server Exploit: What Happened Next

April 1, 2021 | 9 Min Read

It may be April Fool’s Day, but zero-day exploits detected in Microsoft Exchange Servers are no joke. It’s now been...

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3 Reasons to Download our New Cyber Threat Intelligence Solutions Guide

March 30, 2021 | 3 Min Read

This blog outlines what you can expect to read in our newly-released Cyber Threat Intelligence: Solutions Guide and Best Practices....

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Top Blogs of Q1 2021

March 30, 2021 | 10 Min Read

It’s safe to say that the first quarter of 2021 gave strong 2020 vibes. As many places are starting to...

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Tax and Unemployment Fraud in 2021

March 24, 2021 | 6 Min Read

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Tax season again. In a decision to assist US taxpayers navigating the...

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Arrest, Prosecution, and Incarceration: The Cybercriminal Perspective

March 22, 2021 | 10 Min Read

As we highlighted in our recent blog on Cybercriminal Law Enforcement Crackdowns in 2021, this year has been a busy...

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FBI IC3 2020: Cybercrime Causes $4.1 Billion in Losses

March 18, 2021 | 7 Min Read

On March 17th, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published its 2020 Internet Crimes Complaint Center (IC3) report. This report...

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Monitoring for Risks Coming From Suppliers: How SearchLight Helps

March 18, 2021 | 4 Min Read

For those looking to monitor risks from third parties, it’s been a stressful few months. Back in December, FireEye released...

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Smeltdown 2.0: Revisiting the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities

March 16, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Note: This blog is a revisit on our 2018 coverage of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. You can read further...

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Mapping MITRE ATT&CK to the Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Exploits

March 11, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Note: This blog is a part of our MITRE ATT&CK Mapping series in which we map the latest major threat...

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Year in Review: COVID-19 Concerns for Cybersecurity

March 10, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Note: This blog is a follow-up on our remote worker series on navigating security as organizations continue to work from...

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Mapping MITRE ATT&CK to the DPRK Financial Crime Indictment

March 9, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Note: This blog is a part of our MITRE ATT&CK Mapping series in which we map the latest major threat...

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The Right to Be Forgotten: Cybercriminal Forum Account Deletion

March 4, 2021 | 9 Min Read

We often hear lines like “your past will always catch up with you, no matter how hard you try to...

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Cybercriminal Law Enforcement Crackdowns in 2021

March 2, 2021 | 9 Min Read

Note: This piece is a follow-up on our previous blog, Emotet Disruption: What it Means for the Cyber Threat Landscape,...

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No Time for Threat Intel Noise

March 1, 2021 | 5 Min Read

I recently hit my fifth anniversary here at Digital Shadows. I’ve been reflecting on how the threat intelligence market has...

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How to Monitor Initial Access Broker Listings in SearchLight

February 25, 2021 | 4 Min Read

By now, you might have caught wind of Photon’s new research on Initial Access Brokers (IABs). It’s a pretty awesome,...

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Mapping MITRE ATT&CK to Compromised RDP Sales

February 23, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Digital Shadows recently published a free research paper titled Initial Access Brokers: An Excess of Access, outlining the emergence of...

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The Rise of Initial Access Brokers

February 22, 2021 | 5 Min Read

Over the course of 2020, Digital Shadows detected over 500 cybercriminals’ listings advertising network access across a multitude of industry...

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5 Ways to Take Action on Threat Intelligence

February 18, 2021 | 5 Min Read

The Gartner definition of threat intelligence is “…evidence-based knowledge, including context, mechanisms, indicators, implications and actionable advice, about an existing...

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Threat Intelligence Can Be Noisy: SearchLight Helps

February 16, 2021 | 6 Min Read

Let’s start with a scenario. You’ve finally convinced the business to begin the journey of building up a threat intelligence...

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Cybercrime and Valentine’s Day: What to Look Out For

February 10, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and for many people that means one thing: going to the app store of their...

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Prevent Account Takeover with Our New Exposed Credentials Solutions Guide

February 9, 2021 | 5 Min Read

Note: This blog is taken from our recently published Exposed Credentials Solutions Guide, which includes a complete list of our...

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Emotet Disruption: what it means for the cyber threat landscape

February 3, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Last week, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL) published a press release detailing the operation that led...

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DarkMarket’s seizure: the decline of the marketplace?

February 2, 2021 | 6 Min Read

Once upon a time, a high-profile dark web marketplace seizure or exit scam would have been big news in the...

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Joker’s Stash’s Final Deal: A turning point for AVCs?

January 28, 2021 | 12 Min Read

Back in December 2020, Digital Shadows reported that the Blockchain DNS domains for the infamous carding automated vending cart (AVC)...

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Brexit 2021: implications for the security landscape

January 27, 2021 | 8 Min Read

Ok I’ll admit it, I feel pretty sorry for Boris Johnson. That doesn’t appear to be a particularly common consensus...

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Ransomware: Analyzing the data from 2020

January 26, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Note: This blog is a roundup of our quarterly ransomware series. You can also see our Q2 Ransomware Trends, Q3...

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ShadowTalk Update: CISA Security Advisory, IObit Attack, and more SolarWinds!

January 25, 2021 | 2 Min Read

ShadowTalk hosts Stefano, Adam, Kim, and Dylan bring you the latest in threat intelligence. This week they cover: Adam and...

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Threats to Asset and Wealth Management in 2020-2021

January 21, 2021 | 10 Min Read

Note: Our findings in this blog stem from analysis of all Q4 2020 cyber threat activity by our in-house research...

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Our Top 3 Takeaways from Forrester: Now Tech: External Threat Intelligence Services, Q4 2020

January 20, 2021 | 4 Min Read

When it comes to selecting an external threat intelligence tool or managed service, “plenty of fish in the sea” is...

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Azure AD: Auto Validate Exposed Credentials

January 19, 2021 | 3 Min Read

SearchLight customers can now automatically validate credential alerts via an integration with Azure AD, drastically reducing the time required to...

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ShadowTalk Update: Sunburst, Sunspot, and more on SolarWinds!

January 18, 2021 | 3 Min Read

ShadowTalk hosts Alec, Charles, Austin, and Ivan bring you the latest in threat intelligence. This week they cover: Significant updates...

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Targets and Predictions for the COVID-19 Threat Landscape

January 14, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Note: This blog is part of our ongoing coverage of the virus’s impact on the cyber threat intelligence landscape. You...

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Tracing the Rise and Fall of Dark Web Marketplaces and Cybercriminal Forums

January 13, 2021 | 9 Min Read

It’s often the case that a sequel to a great book or a remake of a once-popular TV series doesn’t...

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ShadowTalk Update: SolarWinds Updates, TicketMaster Fraud, Apex Cyber Attack, and More!

January 11, 2021 | 2 Min Read

ShadowTalk hosts Stefano, Adam and Dylan bring you the latest in threat intelligence. This week they cover: Post-holiday updates on...

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ICYMI: SolarWinds Compromise Update

January 8, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Note: This blog is a follow-up of our previous SolarWinds blog by our in-house threat intelligence team. You can read...

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Looking back at 2020: A Year in Review

January 6, 2021 | 8 Min Read

2020 is truly an extraordinary year (and some aspects worse than others). This year was also made up of some...

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Top Three SearchLight Updates in 2020

December 28, 2020 | 3 Min Read

For threat intelligence to really work for organizations, it must… Be easy to use Be easy to integrate Have dependable...

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A Christmas 2020 Review: Confronting and controlling insider threats

December 21, 2020 | 6 Min Read

As the holidays rapidly approach, our halls are decked with images of Santa Claus. Kids are told stories of his...

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QUO, QUO, QUO! Merry Christmas…..

December 21, 2020 | 7 Min Read

On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me an index of the dark web for free….....

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How Bizarre: Joker’s Stash .bazar site allegedly seized by law enforcement

December 17, 2020 | 6 Min Read

What happened to Joker’s Stash? In a very recent event, the Blockchain domains of Joker’s Stash, an automated vending cart...

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Top Five ShadowTalk Episodes of the Year

December 17, 2020 | 4 Min Read

Despite everything else happening in the world, 2020 has been an amazing year for ShadowTalk, our weekly threat intelligence podcast...

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Holiday Cybercrime: Krampus is in Town

December 15, 2020 | 7 Min Read

For the average consumer, Black Friday and holiday shopping look different in 2020. In previous years, we would physically make our...

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SolarWinds Compromise: What security teams need to know

December 14, 2020 | 5 Min Read

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently released an Emergency Directive reporting on a long-running supply-chain attack actively exploiting...

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Digital Shadows’ Top Five Blogs of 2020

December 10, 2020 | 6 Min Read

Rumour has it that one day I’ll stop being nostalgic around December time and live this month just like any...

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Impersonator Syndrome: Supply chain lures and COVID-19 cures

December 9, 2020 | 3 Min Read

It’s been a tough few months for the healthcare industry (and for all of us in general). While we’ve reported...

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How Cybercriminals Answer “What do you do for a living?”

December 3, 2020 | 8 Min Read

Have you ever wondered how cybercriminals explain their mysterious means of income to others? While not all threat actors’ illicit...

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The Top 3 Cybersecurity Threats In The Middle East

December 2, 2020 | 7 Min Read

SECURITY CONCERNS ARE HEATING UP IN THE MIDDLE EAST Rising rates of cybercriminal activities occur as threat actors observe the...

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2021 Forecasts: Six Trends And Predictions For The New Year

December 1, 2020 | 18 Min Read

This year has been a real doozy, y’all: Ransomware capitalizing on extortion, operators compromising thousands of organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic...

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ShadowTalk Update: Egregor Ransomware, IoT Regulations, Black Friday Threats and More!

November 30, 2020 | 2 Min Read

ShadowTalk hosts Stefano, Adam and Dylan bring you the latest in threat intelligence. This week they cover: QBot drops Prolock...

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Egregor: The New Ransomware Variant to Watch

November 24, 2020 | 9 Min Read

INTRODUCING EGREGOR RANSOMWARE GROUP First observed on September 25th, 2020, the Egregor ransomware variant has been making considerable strides in...

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SearchLight’s Exposed Document Alerts: Uncover the Critical, Faster

November 23, 2020 | 5 Min Read

BACKING UP…INTO A DITCH I am a terrible driver. While I’ve sat through Driver’s Ed courses, studied physics and trigonometry,...

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Holiday Cybercrime: Retail Risks and Dark Web Kicks

November 19, 2020 | 7 Min Read

The holidays are right around the corner, and you know what that means – more calories and significant price drops...

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ShadowTalk Update: RegretLocker, OceanLotus, Millions Seized in Cryptocurrency, and more!

November 16, 2020 | 2 Min Read

ShadowTalk hosts Stefano, Kim, Dylan, and Adam bring you the latest in threat intelligence. This week they cover: RegretLocker’s approach...

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To Code or Not to Code? Cybercriminals and the world of programming

November 12, 2020 | 9 Min Read

If you keep a pulse on the technology sector or have take note of billboard ads in any urban area...

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Work Smarter, Not Harder: The Evolution of DDoS Activity in 2020

November 10, 2020 | 10 Min Read

Ransomware operations have undoubtedly dominated the 2020 cyber threat landscape thanks to multi-million-dollar heists and new malware variants popping up...

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A Eulogy for Maze: The end of a ransomware era?

November 9, 2020 | 6 Min Read

Maze— a high profile ransomware gang in the cybercriminal world— now claims they’ve ceased to exist. The hacker group famed...

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Simplifying Cybercriminal Jargon: A Glossary of Cybercriminal Access Offerings

November 2, 2020 | 15 Min Read

With advertisements for access to compromised victim networks becoming increasingly prevalent across cybercriminal platforms, Digital Shadows has compiled the following...

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Ransomware operators targeting healthcare organizations: Monitoring the situation

October 29, 2020 | 9 Min Read

On 28 Oct 2020, in response to large-scale and coordinated attacks by ransomware operators targeting United States-based healthcare services, the...

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Mapping MITRE ATT&CK to SandWorm APT’s Global Campaign

October 28, 2020 | 7 Min Read

On Thursday, October 15th, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) indicted six Russian military officers connected to the SandWorm...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Week 4 – The Future of Connected Devices

October 28, 2020 | 8 Min Read

This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month has served as a refreshing installment of security considerations that are often at risk of...

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Foreign cyber threats to the 2020 US presidential election

October 27, 2020 | 12 Min Read

In 2016, Russian nation-state-linked threat actors infamously compromised the Democratic National Convention (DNC), wedging a divide in the political party...

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Marcus Carey Joins ShadowTalk

October 23, 2020 | 3 Min Read

We recently had mentor, author, founder, US Navy veteran, and Texan, Marcus Carey join ShadowTalk. For those who don’t know...

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Dark pathways into cybercrime: Minding the threat actor talent gap

October 21, 2020 | 11 Min Read

Digital Shadows recently published two blogs looking at how threat actors express their personality on cybercriminal forums — either inadvertently...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Week 3 – Securing Internet- Connected Devices in Healthcare

October 21, 2020 | 9 Min Read

The healthcare industry is increasingly relying upon internet-connected devices and solutions to improve patient care, organizational efficiency, crisis response speed,...

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Quarterly Update: Ransomware Trends in Q3

October 19, 2020 | 8 Min Read

As we embark on the final months of 2020, ransomware has been the main topic of conversation once again. Throughout...

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Digital Shadows Analysis of Europol’s Cybercrime Report

October 14, 2020 | 12 Min Read

In early October 2020, Europol released their Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2020, detailing the latest trends and impacts...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Week 2 – Security Devices at Home and Work

October 14, 2020 | 7 Min Read

This week, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) focuses on accountability and responsibility behind securing your devices at home and...

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Clickbait to Checkmate: SMS-based scam targets US smartphones and accesses victim locations

October 13, 2020 | 11 Min Read

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Digital Shadows has observed a significant increase in the number of SMS-based phishing...

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Week 1 – If you Connect It, Protect It

October 8, 2020 | 6 Min Read

This week marks the opening week of the annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). While focusing on cybersecurity is...

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Help your development teams keep their keys safe

October 7, 2020 | 3 Min Read

Modern development practices are a blessing and a curse for organizations. Efficiency gains delivered by distributed workforces, and blended in...

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Let’s get ready to tumble! Bitcoin vs Monero

October 6, 2020 | 13 Min Read

Over the past ten years, cryptocurrencies have become the go-to form of payment for the less law-abiding citizens of the...

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Recent arrests and high-profile convictions: What does it mean for the cyber threat landscape?

September 30, 2020 | 13 Min Read

In the wonderful world of cyber threat intelligence and research, we often analyze the impact that cybercrime or nation-state activity...

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Four Ways to Validate Credentials in SearchLight

September 29, 2020 | 3 Min Read

Amid the billions of credentials that are breached each year, security teams are focused on one core question: do any...

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Cybercriminals Targeting SAP RECON

September 29, 2020 | 5 Min Read

Key takeaways From the discussions that rapidly emerged following the publication of CVE-2020-6287, we can learn the following: There is...

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Unpicking Cybercriminals’ Personalities – Part 2: Morality and Forum Dynamics

September 28, 2020 | 7 Min Read

In the first part of this blog series, we looked at numerous examples of ways cybercriminals have expressed their gender...

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ShadowTalk Update – Law Enforcement Cracks Down On Cybercriminals, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, And More

September 28, 2020 | 2 Min Read

ShadowTalk hosts Kacey, Charles, Alec and Digital Shadows CISO Rick bring you the latest in threat intelligence. This week they...

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RECAP: Discussing deception with Chris Sanders

September 24, 2020 | 3 Min Read

When I was a Forrester Research analyst, I had some strong opinions on deception technology. Approximately five years ago, I...

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Unpicking Cybercriminals’ Personalities – Part 1: Gender and Nationality

September 23, 2020 | 9 Min Read

It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about cybercriminal forums as purely transactional platforms; environments in which cut-throat...

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DarkSide: The new ransomware group behind highly targeted attacks

September 22, 2020 | 8 Min Read

We’ve recently observed the emergence of a new ransomware operation named DarkSide. The nuance of the operation includes corporate-like methods...

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ShadowTalk Update – Ed Merrett Joins To Talk HackableYou And The Latest In Threat Intel

September 21, 2020 | 2 Min Read

Listen below 👇👇 ShadowTalk Threat Intelligence Podcast · Weekly: The Team Talks Baka, Epic Manchego, and Smaug, Plus Emotet Rides...

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With the Empire falling, who will take over the throne?

September 16, 2020 | 10 Min Read

With the Empire falling, who will take over the throne? Empire Market’s exit scam has dealt a significant blow to...

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Access Keys Exposed: More Than 40% Are For Database Stores

September 14, 2020 | 6 Min Read

By now, we’ve all heard news about AWS keys leaked by a developer on GitHub. While this can cause damaging...

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ShadowTalk Update – The Team Talks Baka, Epic Manchego, and Smaug, Plus Emotet Rides Again

September 14, 2020 | 2 Min Read

Listen below 👇👇 ShadowTalk Threat Intelligence Podcast · Weekly: The Team Talks Baka, Epic Manchego, and Smaug, Plus Emotet Rides...

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Recruitment fraud: Don’t spook your dream candidates this halloween

September 10, 2020 | 4 Min Read

Everyone wants their dream job. Some people get it, others think they’ve found it online… the job post looks appealing:...

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Not another ransomware blog: Initial access brokers and their role

September 9, 2020 | 5 Min Read

It’s hard to get very far in cyber threat intelligence without discussing ransomware. Actually, it’s almost impossible. Keeping with the...

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Cyber espionage: How to not get spooked by nation-state actors

September 8, 2020 | 8 Min Read

In all the years I’ve worked in the cybersecurity field (nine if anyone’s counting), I haven’t seen as much reporting...

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ShadowTalk Update – New Zealand Stock Exchange faces DDoS, Tesla avoids cyberattack, and Pioneer Kitten updates

September 7, 2020 | 2 Min Read

Listen below 👇👇 ShadowTalk Threat Intelligence Podcast · Weekly: New Zealand Stock Exchange faces DDoS, Tesla avoids cyberattack, and Pioneer...

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Revisiting Typosquatting and the 2020 US Presidential Election

September 2, 2020 | 11 Min Read

In October 2019, Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team embarked on an adventure involving election typosquats that could potentially affect the...

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What is DevSecOps and Why Do We Need It?

August 12, 2020 | 4 Min Read

DevSecOps, SecDevOps, and any variation of those words are massively trending topics in tech companies today. People love to talk...

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Dread takes on the spammers – who will come out on top?

August 28, 2020 | 9 Min Read

Spamming is an irritating and sometimes damaging issue that affects all of us, whether it’s constant emails about dubious products...

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Fall of the behemoth: Cybercriminal underground rocked by Empire’s apparent exit scam

August 27, 2020 | 10 Min Read

Summer is generally a relatively quiet time in the cybercriminal underground. It seems that, just like the rest of us,...

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“ALEXA, WHO IS THE NUMBER ONE CYBERCRIMINAL FORUM TO RULE THEM ALL?”

August 26, 2020 | 12 Min Read

In June 2020, the administrator of the English-language cybercriminal carding forum Altenen announced a “big victory” for the site in...

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RECAP: Discussing the evolution and trends of cybercrime with Geoff White

August 25, 2020 | 8 Min Read

In late July 2020, Digital Shadows had the fantastic opportunity to speak with Geoff White on ShadowTalk, Digital Shadows’ threat...

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Validate Exposed Credentials with Okta to Save Even More Time

August 24, 2020 | 3 Min Read

SearchLight customers can now automatically validate credential alerts via an integration with Okta, drastically reducing the time required to triage. ...