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Threat hunting is the practice of proactively searching for cyber threats that are lurking undetected in a network.  Cyber threat hunting digs deep to find malicious actors in your environment that have slipped past your initial endpoint security defenses. After sneaking in, an attacker can stealthily remain in a network for months as they quietly collect data, look for confidential material, or obtain login credentials that will allow them to  move laterally across the environment . Once an adversary is successful in evading detection and an attack has penetrated an organization’s defenses, many organizations lack the advanced detection capabilities needed to stop the  advanced persistent threats  from remaining in the network. That’s why threat hunting is an essential component of any defense strategy. Threat Hunting Methodologies Threat hunters assume that adversaries are already in the system , and they initiate an investigation to find unusual behavior that may in

What is a Cyber Attack? A cyber attack is an intentional exploitation of computer systems, networks, and technology-dependent enterprises. These attacks use malicious code to modify computer code, data, or logic. Culminating into destructive consequences that can compromise your data and promulgate cybercrimes such as information and identity theft. A cyber attack is also known as a computer network attack (CNA). Web Attacks SQL Injection SQL injection, also known as SQLI,  is a kind of  cyber attacks that employs malicious code to manipulate backend databases to access information that was not intended for display. This may include numerous items including private customer details, user lists, or sensitive company data. SQLI can have devastating effects on a business. A successful SQLI attack can cause deletion of entire tables, unauthorized viewing of user lists, and in some cases, the attacker can gain administrative access to a database. These can be highly detrimen

Everyone! Cyber threat intelligence is widely imagined to be the domain of elite analysts. In reality, it adds value across security functions for organizations of all sizes. When threat intelligence is treated as a separate function within a broader security paradigm rather than an essential component that augments every other function, the result is that many of the people who would benefit the most from threat intelligence don’t have access to it when they need it. Security operations teams are routinely unable to process the alerts they receive — threat intelligence integrates with the security solutions you already use, helping automatically prioritize and filter alerts and other threats. Vulnerability management teams can more accurately prioritize the most important vulnerabilities with access to the external insights and context provided by threat intelligence. And fraud prevention, risk analysis, and other high-level security processes are enriched by the understanding

Understanding the most commonly targeted ports enables you to better protect these threat vectors. Once you know where to look, you can reconfigure the ports to mitigate data breach risks and better secure data. The  2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , in its appendix, notes some of the most valuable ports that malicious actors use in targeted attacks: ·          cLDAP (389) ·          DNS (53) ·          NTP (123) ·          SSH (22) ·          Telnet (23) ·          HTTP (8080) ·          NetBIOS (445) ·          Dell Open Management As with all research, the Data Breach Investigations Report provides limited information. While these ports may have been the most commonly targeted at the time of the research, malicious actors continuously evolve their threat methodologies, meaning that they target other ports as well. Continuous cybersecurity monitoring for defense in depth Continuously  monitoring your cybersecurity  controls with artificial intelligen

Malware A variety of malware has been discovered in the years which have passed. These attacks on malware is designed to attack different devices like smartphones. In the first half of 2019, there was a 50 per cent increase in malware attacks in mobile banking. The mobile devices that virtually every one of us carries contain sensitive data and information of us. Through attacking this mini machine hackers can get what they want. With the passage of time our reliance on these tools has been greatly increased and we are using it for our sensitive information, for different purposes of online transaction and recording. In order to save this sensitive information, we focus on two authentication criteria in which one is linked to the SMS and the other is verification through mobile application. Thus hackers have reached that poor communication between the network and the service provider through an attack in “SIMjacking”. Such attacks were carried out through a social engineer