DDoS

On February 9th 2023, a milestone partnership was celebrated between Vectra and KPMG, and they had a lot to share. The discussion centered around the value of EffectiveSecurity Observability (ESO) - powered by Vectra's Attack Signal Intelligence, while KPMG and Vectra hosted a joined webinar.

We have never seen a full-on cyber conflict rage across the world's digital systems, but if the situation in Ukraine leads to such a thing, CIOs and CISOs will find themselves on the front lines. With escalation patterns uncertain and no "rules of the road" governing cyberwar, any organization risks becoming a casualty. Already, CIOs and CISOs are seeing their roles evolve and enlarge. Vectra AI CRO Willem Hendrickx discusses their transformational hour

It's only human to focus on external threats to your well-being. This often applies to organizations and their approaches to security as well; which is why so much energy is typically put into perimeter security. Yet, this approach is antithetical to the zero-trust methodology: Organizations must also pay attention to internal-to-internal and internal-to-external traffic just as much as traffic coming in.

Updated perspective on cyberthreats as a result of ongoing Ukrainian/Russian conflict, including specific custom recall queries, and aggregation of common Russian state actor TTPs.

Vectra customers should be aware that current global events related to Russian recognition of separatist regions of the Ukraine carry with them the risk of increased cyber activity conducted by Russian state level actors. This includes evidence that the FSB, the main Intelligence Organization in Russia, is responsible for the DDoS against Ukrainian systems in February 2022.

Cyberattacks are hitting the headlines around the world and there seems to be no end to the noise the attacks are making. We dive into what an organisation should do to stay breached.

Updated June 3, 2015 11:00 AM(see details)Recently a popular privacy and unblocker application known as Hola has been gaining attention from the security community for a variety of vulnerabilities and highly questionable practices that allow the service to essentially behave as a botnet-for-hire through its sister service called Luminati. Vectra researchers have been looking into this application after observing it in customer networks over the past several weeks, and the results are both intriguing and troubling. In addition to its various botnet-enabling functions that are now part of the public record, the Hola application contains a variety of features that make it an ideal platform for executing targeted cyber attacks.

On June 6th, Forbes reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an NSF researcher who misused NSF-funded supercomputing resources to mine Bitcoin valued between $8,000 and $10,000. The article points to a student at London Imperial College and a researcher at Harvard University who are also alleged to have used their University's computers to mine a similar virtual currency called Dogecoin.