Ransomware
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.
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.
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
Supriya Aluri
Posted on Feb 17, 2023 4 minutes
All About Hive Ransomware
One of the most prolific ransomware groups to affect healthcare facilities, nonprofits, retailers, energy providers, and other sectors, with a total of more than 1,300 institutions hit by the ransomware group worldwide and a profit of $100 million in ransom payments, Hive Ransomware has been ruling the roost since June 2021. Read on to find out what Securin experts uncovered when they revisited HIVE and their attack tactics and techniques, and what organizations can do to remain safe from future attacks.
Surojoy Gupta
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
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.
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?
Priya Ravindran
Posted on Dec 23, 2022 | Updated on February 3, 2023 4 minutes
All About Vice Society Ransomware
Vice Society has been recently observed employing multiple ransomware variants, similar to the Russian Sandworm Team and TA505 threat actors, apart from its double extortion tactics. After its recent attacks on the US K-12 education and healthcare sectors, Vice Society has garnered a lot of media attention. Read on to learn how to protect your network from Vice Society attacks.
Surojoy Gupta
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Supriya Aluri
Posted on Sep 28, 2022 | Updated on September 29, 2022 6 minutes
All about LockBit Ransomware
Read all about the CVEs exploited, attack methodology, and techniques used by the LockBit ransomeareKnow the CVEs exploited, attack methodology, and techniques used by the LockBit ransomeare
Supriya Aluri
Posted on Sep 23, 2022 3 minutes
Cyberwar Bulletin: Iran and Albania
As the world still reels under the impact of the Ukraine-Russia cyberwar, yet another Cyberwar has started between Iran and Albania. CSW experts provide insights into Iranian threats that organizations need to watch out for.
Priya Ravindran
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Supriya Aluri
Posted on Aug 18, 2022 7 minutes
How Safe Is Your VPN?
Did you know hackers can exploit 125 weaponized vulnerabilities in VPN products to attack their targets? CSW analysts deep dive into exposures in VPNs that could compromise organizational networks.
Priya Ravindran
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.
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.
Supriya Aluri
Posted on Jul 14, 2022 | Updated on Sep 06, 2022 5 minutes
All about BlackCat (ALPHV)
Did you know that the BlackCat ransomware group breached 60+ organizations in a single month? Read on to know about CSW's research into the ransomware group, the vulnerabilities they use, and their attack techniques and tactics.
Priya Ravindran
Posted on Jul 12, 2022 | Updated on Sep 09, 2022 3 minutes
How safe are storage devices from a ransomware attack?
Does your organization use Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices? If you think that backing up data in these devices will keep you safe from a ransomware attack, you might have to revisit your security strategy.
Priya Ravindran
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.
Pavithra Shankar, Supriya Aluri
Posted on Jul 6, 2022 5 minutes
43 Weaponized CVEs in Healthcare Products Threaten Patient Care
CSW researchers investigated 56 vendors and 846 healthcare products, and identified 624 vulnerabilities across them. Read to know more about our findings.
Priya Ravindran, Surojoy Gupta
Posted on Jul 4, 2022 | Updated on Sep 21, 2022 5 minutes
Why Should Schools Prioritize Cybersecurity?
This blog provides a snapshot of how CSW is helping schools gain resilience against cyber attacks and evolving threats and what schools can do to stay safe from ransomware attacks.
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.
Pavithra Shankar
Posted on Jun 27, 2022 2 minutes
CSW Weekly Threat Intelligence
CSW weekly threat intelligence edition brings to you early warnings about critical vulnerabilities that could potentially be weaponized and prove dangerous to your organization and its assets.
Pavithra Shankar
Posted on Jun 17, 2022 3 minute
CVE-2022-26134: A New RCE Atlassian Bug Exploited by Ransomware Gangs
Atlassian zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild is tagged as CVE-2022-26134. This is a critical unauthenticated, remote code execution vulnerability that affects all Atlassian Confluence and Data Center 2016 servers after version 1.3.0.
Prakash Ram
Posted on Jun 13, 2022 2 minutes
CISA Adds Vulnerabilities Warned by CSW’s Ransomware Reports
In a recent update of KEV on May 23, 2022, CISA has added three of four vulnerabilities that were called out in the CSW’s Q1 2022 Ransomware Report (May 18, 2022) thereby validating our research and recommendations.
Priya Ravindran
Posted on May 30, 2022 3 minutes
43 APT Groups Use Ransomware to Attack Their Targets
CSW’s quarterly report on ransomware metrics reveals that three new APT groups are using ransomware to mount attacks on their targets, bringing the total number of APT groups using ransomware to 43. Read more on them here.
Supriya Aluri
Posted on Mar 16, 2022 5 minutes
Cyberwar Bulletin 2: Are you ready for this cyberwar?
This bulletin covers CSW's research on the cyberwar, in particular the ransomware and malware threats that are spawning out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Sumeetha Manikandan, Priya Ravindran
Posted on Mar 4, 2022 | Updated on Mar 10, 2022 5 minutes
Cyberwar Bulletin 1: Russia & Ukraine
CSW's analysis of the threat groups and tools playing a role as threats in this cyber war between Russia and Ukraine
Sumeetha Manikandan, Priya Ravindran
Posted on Mar 2, 2022 | Updated on March 01, 2023 3 minutes
Top Scanners Fail to Flag DHS CISA-warned Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)
We looked into the DHS CISA KEV catalog one step further and found that 59 actively known exploited CVEs were missed by top scanners such as Nessus, Nexpose, and Qualys. Click here to know more!
Pavithra Shankar, Priya Ravindran
Posted on Feb 23, 2022 | Updated on June 29, 2022 5 minutes
All About Conti
The Conti Group has been one of the most prolific ransomware groups in 2022, second only to REvil. However, Conti has been on a roll with the widespread of attacks against US and now has 44 vulnerability associations. Organizations need to set a patching priority for these vulnerabilities in order to avoid large-scale attacks.
Surojoy Gupta
Posted on Nov 22, 2021 | Updated on March 01, 2023 5 minutes
CISA Releases a Directive Asking Organizations to Patch Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
The DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a directive with a list of 887 known and exploited vulnerabilities that public sector entities and organizations need to patch immediately!
Surojoy Gupta, Priya Ravindran, Pavithra Shankar
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.
Sumeetha