Cyber Risk Blogs

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Posted on Mar 14, 2023 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - March 13, 2023 - March 17, 2023

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Mar 6, 2023 | Updated on Mar 9, 2023 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - March 6, 2023 - March10, 2023

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | March 6, 2023 - March10, 2023

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Mar 2, 2023 4 minutes

Why Are Some Ransomware Vulnerabilities More Dangerous than Others?

Securin experts mapped ransomware vulnerabilities to the MITRE Att&ck framework and identified 57 vulnerabilities that can be exploited from initial access to exfiltration. Read on to find out more about these vulnerabilities.

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Surojoy Gupta

Posted on Feb 27, 2023 | Updated on Mar 2, 2023

CSW's Threat Intelligence - February 27, 2023 - March 3, 2023

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | February 27, 2023 - March 3, 2023

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Feb 20, 2023 | Updated on Feb 24, 2023 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - February 20, 2022 - February 24, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | February 20, 2022 - February 24, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Feb 13, 2023 | Updated on Feb 17, 2023 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - February 13, 2022 - February 17, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | February 13, 2022 - February 17, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Feb 6, 2023 | Updated on Feb 10, 2023 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - February 6, 2022 - February 10, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | February 6, 2022 - February 10, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jan 30, 2023 | Updated on Feb 3, 2023 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - January 30, 2022 - February 3, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | January 30, 2022 - February 3, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jan 18, 2023 | Updated on Jan 20, 2023 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - January 16, 2022 - January 20, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | January 16, 2022 - January 20, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jan 9, 2023 | Updated on Jan 17, 2023 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - January 9, 2022 - January 13, 2023

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jan 3, 2023 | Updated on Jan 5, 2023 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - January 02, 2023 - January 06, 2023

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | January 02, 2023 - January 06, 2023

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Dec 30, 2022 7 minutes

How Safe is your Database?

A data breach resulting in the loss of their jobs is one of the worst nightmares for a CISO. Companies that have experienced a breach underperform the market by more than 15% three years later. That raises the question - “Is your data safe?” CSW analyzed more than 290 database products and identified 4352 vulnerabilities, of which 24% have high predictive risk ratings, and 12% are trending in the wild! What should be your course of action?

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Priya Ravindran

Posted on Dec 27, 2022 | Updated on Dec 30, 2022 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - December 26, 2022 - December 30, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Dec 19, 2022 | Updated on Dec 23, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - December 19, 2022 - December 23, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | December 19, 2022 - December 23, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Dec 12, 2022 | Updated on Dec 16, 2022 10 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - December 12, 2022 - December 16, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | December 12, 2022 - December 16, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Dec 5, 2022 | Updated on Dec 9, 2022 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - December 5, 2022 - December 9, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | December 5, 2022 - December 9, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Nov 28, 2022 | Updated on Dec 2, 2022 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - November 28, 2022 - December 2, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | November 28, 2022 - December 2, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Nov 21, 2022 | Updated on Nov 25, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - November 21, 2022 - November 25, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | November 21, 2022 - November 25, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Nov 14, 2022 | Updated on Nov 18, 2022 7 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - November 14, 2022 - November 18, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | November 14, 2022 - November 18, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Nov 7, 2022 | Updated on November 11, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - November 7, 2022 - November 11, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | November 7, 2022 - November 11, 2022

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Priya Ravindran, Supriya Aluri

Posted on Oct 31, 2022 | Updated on November 4, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - October 31, 2022 - November 4, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | October 31, 2022 - November 4, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Oct 25, 2022 | Updated on October 28, 2022 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - October 24, 2022 - October 28, 2022

This blog brings you all the DHS CISA KEVs that need to be prioritized for patching from October 24, 2022 to October 28, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Oct 18, 2022 | Updated on Oct 21, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - October 17, 2022 - October 21, 2022

This blog brings you all the DHS CISA KEVs that need to be prioritized for patching from Oct 17, 2022 to Oct 21, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Oct 10, 2022 | Updated on Oct 14, 2022 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - October 10, 2022 - October 14, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | October 10, 2022 - October 14, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Oct 3, 2022 | Updated on October 07, 2022 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - October 3, 2022 - October 7, 2022

This blog brings you all the DHS CISA KEVs that need to be prioritized for patching from Oct 3, 2022 to Oct 7, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Sep 27, 2022 | Updated on September 29, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - September 26, 2022 - September 30, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | September 26, 2022 - September 30, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Sep 19, 2022 | Updated on Sep 23, 2022 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - September 19, 2022 - September 23, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | September 19, 2022 - September 23, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Sep 12, 2022 | Updated on Sep 16, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - September 12, 2022 - September 16, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Priya Ravindran

Posted on Sep 9, 2022 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - September 05, 2022 - September 09, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting. | September 05, 2022 - September 09, 2022

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Sep 2, 2022 5 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - August 29, 2022 - September 2, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Aug 22, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - August 22, 2022 - August 26, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Aug 16, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - August 15, 2022 - August 19, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Aug 12, 2022 3 minutes

An Exploration of Russia-based APT29’s Recent Campaigns

CSW's analysis of the vulnerabilities and attack tactics used by APT29 in recent campaigns

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Vasanthakumar Thangaprakasam

Posted on Aug 9, 2022 6 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - August 08, 2022 - August 12, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Aug 1, 2022 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - August 02, 2022 - August 05, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jul 25, 2022 3 minute

CSW's Threat Intelligence - July 25, 2022 - July 29, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jul 18, 2022 3 minutes

CSW's Threat Intelligence - July 18, 2022 - July 22, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jul 13, 2022 3 minutes

CSW's Weekly Threat Intelligence - July 11, 2022 - July 15, 2022

We bring you threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jul 8, 2022 2 minutes

CSW’s Friday Threat Intelligence

This week, we bring to you eight threats that are currently trending as well as new vulnerabilities that hackers are exploiting.

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Pavithra Shankar, Supriya Aluri

Posted on Jul 1, 2022 3 minutes

CSW Weekly Threat Intelligence

All CVEs mentioned in this blog edition have received a maximum rating from the Threat Intelligence platform indicating high probability of exploitation.

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Pavithra Shankar

Posted on Jan 10, 2022 5 minutes

A Pentester’s Perspective: What's Next after Domain Admin?

Organizations have been increasingly relying on cloud services from Azure, since Microsoft provides native support. As a result, CSW penetration testers have been researching various attack vectors related to Azure. Read on to find out more about their findings.

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Venkatraman Kumar

Posted on Jan 9, 2022 2 minutes

How to Detect JNDI vulnerability in H2 Database Engine?

CSW Researchers have developed a script to detect the JNDI vulnerability - the well-known LogShell-like vulnerability. Run our simple-to-use script to ensure your projects are free from JNDI injections.

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Pavithra Shankar

Posted on Dec 12, 2021 | Updated on Aug 30, 2022 2 Minutes

Have you Patched the Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228?

Apache Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 is a critical zero-day code execution vulnerability with a CVSS base score of 10. This weakness poses a significant risk to many applications and cloud services and it needs to be patched right away!

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Sumeetha Manikandan, Pavithra Shankar

Posted on Aug 25, 2021 | Updated on June 28, 2022 4 minutes

Pegasus Spyware Snoops On Political Figures Worldwide

An Israeli zero-click cyber-espionage software recently infected the Apple devices of journalists and politicians from around the world by exploiting three zero-day vulnerabilities. Read our analysis of these vulnerabilities.

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Surojoy Gupta

Posted on May 4, 2021 3 minutes

NSA Validates CSW’s warning on two critical vulnerabilities

In May 2020, CSW warned the industry of two critical vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN and Citrix’s Remote Desktop solution that could be used by Ransomware or APT groups. One year after our warning, NSA, FBI and CISA validated the same.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Mar 8, 2021 3 minutes

Cyber Women We Admire

This women’s day, we spoke to a few inspiring women executives who are breaking the myth and are soaring high. They are skilled, motivated, and talented and they come from different geographies, backgrounds but are united by their passion for cybersecurity. 

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Sumeetha Manikandan

Posted on Feb 11, 2021 3 minutes

Sri Lankan Domain Attack: Exposed Credentials available in Dark Web for Eight Years!

Investigations on the Sri Lankan Domain attack reveal that threat actors could have used exposed credentials and vulnerabilities to breach and redirect the websites. These credentials have been exposed on the dark web for the past eight years!

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jan 21, 2021 3 minutes

Could Google’s most searched Top 10 vulnerabilities in 2020 be key attack indicators?

2020 was a productive year for threat actors. With the world’s workforce working remotely while dealing with the pandemic, threat actors were busy weaponizing critical vulnerabilities that had a global impact. Many organizations fell prey to ransomware and sophisticated cyber attacks that allowed remote and privileged access to sensitive information.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jan 21, 2021 3 minutes

Eight Cybersecurity Predictions from CSW Security Experts

What does 2021 have in store for cybersecurity? Will we take note of the lessons learned in 2020 and start taking security seriously? Will we see more cyberattacks? We asked our exclusive team of pentesting experts to predict the trends for us, and here is what they said.

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Sindhuja Sreenivasan

Posted on Jan 11, 2021 3 minutes

Seven Predictions by Women Cyber Security Experts

What does 2021 have in store for cybersecurity? Will we take note of the lessons learned in 2020 and start taking security seriously? Will we see more cyberattacks?

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Sindhuja

Posted on Dec 18, 2020 3 minutes

How to Detect SolarWinds Orion Product running on your network?

Popular scanners such as Tenable, Qualys and Nexpose are missing 48 vulnerabilities out of 102 vulnerabilities. To help 18000 customers who have been affected, CSW team has come up with a script that would help detect SolarWinds Orion Product running on your network.

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Pavithra Shankar

Posted on Dec 16, 2020 3 minutes

CSW Analysis of SolarWinds: Top Scanners miss most of the vulnerabilities

The massive breach of SolarWinds Network Management product has compromised as many as 18,000 organizations outside of U.S Government entities, security agencies, defense entities. We took a closer look at the weaknesses that exist in other SolarWinds products and found that top scanners miss most of the vulnerabilities.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Dec 15, 2020 5 minutes

Vulnerability Analysis: SolarWinds Orion Network Management

SolarWinds disclosed on Dec 13 that vulnerabilities in their network management tool Orion was used to mount attacks on FireEye and on several Government agencies. CSW analyzed Orion’s 15 Vulnerabilities and has found that CVE-2019-9546 – with a known critical Privilege Execution Exploit needs immediate remediation along with an upgrade to Orion Platform version 2020.2.1 HF.1.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Dec 10, 2020 3 minutes

FireEye’s stolen Pentesting Tools & the vulnerabilities they target

CSW analyzed the vulnerabilities (impacted by FireEye’s stolen pentesting tools) and found that Chinese & Iranian APT Groups target them routinely. These CVEs are also favorite targets of Ransomware such as Ryuk, Maze, Netwalker.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Aug 30, 2020 2 minutes

India's Cybersecurity Policy: Disclosure of Data Breaches

Will the new national cybersecurity policy include a disclosure policy similar to what the west has?

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 3 minutes

How safe are Web Proxy?

Today, the reliance on applications such as web proxy, remote conferencing, VPNs, etc. are at an all-time high which is yet another reason for threat actors to work overtime to exploit vulnerabilities.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 3 minutes

How safe are Databases?

Cyber threat actors have been working hard during these pandemic times. Systems, infrastructure, and sensitive information that was hitherto viewed within the secure walls of one’s office is now being accessed through insecure connections and unsafe laptops from one’s home.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 5 minutes

How safe are Enterprise Data Storage Systems?

While Enterprise data storage systems are great to work with, they are also sitting ducks for threat attacks. Find out how?

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jul 19, 2020 5 minutes

How safe are VPN solutions?

Travelex fell prey to a ransomware attack (on New Year’s Eve) because they failed to install a patch issued by their VPN - Pulse Secure. How safe are our VPNs? Let's find out.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jul 14, 2020 7 minutes

How safe are online conferences?

With the recent breaches in Zoom application and increasing instances of ‘zoombombing’ and data theft, a definitive study of popular online video conferencing tools was needed. Take a read.

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Sumeetha

Posted on Jul 14, 2020 5 minutes

How safe are your Tech Stacks?

This April, Cognizant fell prey to a nasty ransomware attack whose ripple effect has shaken the world. How safe is your tech stack? Let's take a look.

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