Category: General Cyber security

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What We’re Reading This Month

September 8, 2021 | 6 Min Read

Another busy month goes by, but the team has found some time to read around our threat intelligence-focused roles. This month’s installment looks at some more politically-driven analysis on...
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What We’re Reading This Month

What We’re Reading This Month

September 8, 2021 | 6 Min Read

Another busy month goes by, but the team has found some time to read around our threat intelligence-focused roles. This...
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Preventing Ransomware: Preventing the 300 at Thermopylae

Preventing Ransomware: Preventing the 300 at Thermopylae

September 2, 2021 | 7 Min Read

Ransomware, Ransomware, Ransomware Unless you’ve been on a quiet sabbatical or otherwise offline and not watching the news for the...
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The Phight Against Phishing

The Phight Against Phishing

August 17, 2021 | 17 Min Read

What is Phish(ing)? No, not the band, unless you’re really into jam bands. We’re talking about the email attack variety....
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The (Nation) State of APTs in 2021

The (Nation) State of APTs in 2021

August 12, 2021 | 10 Min Read

Even though it seems like every year has been the year of ransomware since probably 2017, this year is in...
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Understanding Smishing Attacks

Understanding Smishing Attacks

August 10, 2021 | 5 Min Read

I’ve got some good news and some bad news.  The bad news is that I’ve been receiving a lot of...
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Q2 Ransomware Roll Up

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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Kaseya Attack Update: What’s Happened Since?

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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Typosquatting Protection 101

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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What We’re Reading This Month

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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Threat Actors Living Off the Land

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

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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The Business of Extortion: How Ransomware Makes Money

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

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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What We’re Reading This Month

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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How Cybercriminals Can Leverage Your Vaccination Card Selfie

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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