A strong recovery and resilience strategy will ensure that crypto and DeFi firms are able to rebound from cyber attacks with minimal disruptions to their operations, mitigating losses for their investors and users.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
A new report finds that security professionals are receptive to the idea of more regulation by the federal government in the interest of improving cyber defenses. 99% feel that federal agencies are not doing enough to protect their own data and systems.
Exploitable features are the favored means by which to penetrate OT devices, and the current research finds that they continue to be an issue in industrial control systems.
The SolarWinds hackers (thought to be backed by Russian intelligence) are up to their old tricks with new cloud providers, and have reportedly already breached a number of companies.
A CEO’s involvement shouldn’t only come as a last resort. CEOs should take a proactive stance to highlight that security is also in the business’s best interest and can be balanced with the overarching goals of the business. With the CEO on board, the spotlight then shifts back to the CISO who must then begin work to create a security-focused organization.
The Hive ransomware threat appears to be very much in retreat as the US Department of Justice recently announced the seizure of the group's decryption keys and infrastructure, including its public-facing website, by law enforcement operations.
Security researchers have found over 35,000 code repositories with malicious forks or clones leading back to a single source. Malware in the tainted code repositories is designed to steal environment variables, stored elements that serve as authentication for various online services.
Leading insurer Lloyd's of London has issued a dire warning about a potential cyber attack scenario on one of the world's major payments systems, estimating that the global cost would total about $3.5 trillion and that much of the recovery cost would not be covered by insurance policies.
Implementing a Zero Trust architecture will help mitigate and ultimately lower the number of successful cybersecurity attacks your organization might otherwise endure, greatly reducing operational and financial risk. Here are five practical steps.
The FBI obtained a court order to remove hackers’ web shells from the still-compromised Microsoft Exchange servers without informing the owners until the operation was concluded.










