Police officers, during a blackout, often check if a neighborhood has regained power by spotting the faint glow of doorbells. This tiny beacon of light, even in an empty house, indicates the restoration of electricity. Similarly, criminals employ surprisingly simplistic methods to identify potential targets. For instance, car thieves casually traverse streets, subtly lifting car…

Duck, duck, duck… goose! In the classic schoolyard game, the ‘it’ player walks around a circle of seated children, gently tapping their heads and calling them ‘duck.’ Tension builds with every tap until the player chooses an opponent by calling them ‘goose.’ The ‘it’ player runs around the circle and tries to slide into the…

Sun Tzu was a Chinese military strategist and general best known as the author of the immortal work, The Art of War, which is still studied and quoted to this day. Sun Tzu was a believer in preparedness prior to battle and believed that battles are often won prior to being fought. One of his…

In March 1831, James Honeyman and William J. Murray used forged keys to enter the City Bank of New York, emptying the vault of more than $245,000 in bank money. Boy, how times have changed! In the digital age, criminals don’t need to risk their safety by physically entering a bank. Why would they when…

Extortion is about leverage. The more leverage you can attain, the greater the chance that an extortion attempt will prove successful. A ransomware attack is a classic example of an extortion maneuver. A ransomware gang encrypts the systems and data repositories that an organization’s business operations depend on. At that point, everything grinds to a…

Let’s say you’re going on vacation next week to a foreign country. You need to know the weather so you can pack appropriately. You open a weather app, enter your destination, and see that it will be warm, but there’s a slight chance of rain, so you throw an umbrella into your bag. Behind the…

Police officers, during a blackout, often check if a neighborhood has regained power by spotting the faint glow of doorbells. This tiny beacon of light, even in an empty house, indicates the restoration of electricity. Similarly, criminals employ surprisingly simplistic methods to identify potential targets. For instance, car thieves casually traverse streets, subtly lifting car…

Duck, duck, duck… goose! In the classic schoolyard game, the ‘it’ player walks around a circle of seated children, gently tapping their heads and calling them ‘duck.’ Tension builds with every tap until the player chooses an opponent by calling them ‘goose.’ The ‘it’ player runs around the circle and tries to slide into the…

Sun Tzu was a Chinese military strategist and general best known as the author of the immortal work, The Art of War, which is still studied and quoted to this day. Sun Tzu was a believer in preparedness prior to battle and believed that battles are often won prior to being fought. One of his…

In March 1831, James Honeyman and William J. Murray used forged keys to enter the City Bank of New York, emptying the vault of more than $245,000 in bank money. Boy, how times have changed! In the digital age, criminals don’t need to risk their safety by physically entering a bank. Why would they when…

Extortion is about leverage. The more leverage you can attain, the greater the chance that an extortion attempt will prove successful. A ransomware attack is a classic example of an extortion maneuver. A ransomware gang encrypts the systems and data repositories that an organization’s business operations depend on. At that point, everything grinds to a…

Let’s say you’re going on vacation next week to a foreign country. You need to know the weather so you can pack appropriately. You open a weather app, enter your destination, and see that it will be warm, but there’s a slight chance of rain, so you throw an umbrella into your bag. Behind the…

Conti, one of today’s most prolific and profitable ransomware groups, launched an initial cyberattack against Costa Rica in mid-April. In recent weeks, the Russian-speaking Conti gang, or possibly an associated group called Hive, have stepped up the attacks and expanded the assault. After Costa Rica refused to pay the initial $10 million ransom or the…

An unknown threat actor is selling a new malware toolkit called Eternity Project. Cybercriminals can buy stealers, clippers, worms, miners, ransomware, and DDoS Bots for a few hundred dollars each. What’s most notable about this malware-as-a-service (MaaS) is that in addition to being available on a TOR website, the hacker behind it is brazenly promoting…

Has REvil re-emerged? That’s the question on everyone’s mind and the topic that’s got the cyber community talking. After months of silence, REvil, the infamous presumed Russian-based ransomware gang, seems to be back online as of last week, with a new leak site promoted on RuTOR. The hacker group’s old site, Happy Blog, has returned,…

Lapsus$ Breaches Okta to Reach Customers’ Sensitive Data Traced back to January of this year, Okta, a publicly traded identity and access management company announced yesterday that it has been impacted by a cyber-attack claimed by the data extortion group Lapsus$. Okta and Lapsus$ disagree regarding the success of the breach, while companies like Cloudflare…

Over the last few weeks, threat actors have been launching phishing scams which leverage people’s fears and anxieties over the Omicron COVID-19 variant. The scams either inject the Dridex banking malware into a victim’s computer or other malware that collects passwords, credentials, and personal or financial data. Informing all employees about the threat is the…

[Last updated Dec. 19, 2021] A recently discovered Log4j vulnerability (Log4Shell, CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache utility that allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and server take over is said to be exploited in the wild. Due to how widely used the Apache tool is, affecting companies such as Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Steam, Tesla, Twitter, and many…

The cybersecurity kill chain, initially defined by Lockheed Martin, continues to be a general standard inside Information Security to describe how a malicious actor, internal or external, performs an attack. The cyber kill chain 7 stages are defined as: Reconnaissance – Identify vulnerabilities, improperly configured services, and obtain credentials through active or passive methods. Weaponization…

In the world of digital warfare, Artificial Intelligence is transforming the Security Operation Centers (SOC) to better respond to cybersecurity threats and attacks. Leveraging AI-Based security tools, such as CYREBRO’s SOC Platform, can provide integration features whereby you will be better able to detect and respond to cybercrimes without an in-house SOC team in place. …

Cybersecurity is a critical component of every business around the world, regardless of size or industry, with the SOC being a key component during the detection and incident response phase. Red Team vs. Blue Team Cybersecurity in a Nutshell The Blue Team stands at the core of Cybersecurity. The foundational elements established in the Blue…

Businesses worldwide are continuously at risk from external threats which are looking for a way in, be it by phishing or vulnerabilities. Once they enter your infrastructure or software, they can then use it to pivot and move into sensitive data, stealing it, or destroying it to obtain a profit. Internal threats have increased rapidly…

SOCs are taking the center stage as the defenders of the network but many organizations don’t fully understand how to leverage a SOC, leaving them in the dark about the real value they provide.   On March 24, CYREBRO’s CEO and founder Nadav Arbel sat together with Ryan Alban Sr. Manager of Global Solution Leads at…

In this episode of CISO Series, we CYREBRO’s CTO, Ori Arbel, discussing the latest cybersecurity trends with the show hosts, cybersecurity journalist, David Spark, and veteran CISO, Andy Ellis. From the start of COVID and the cloud migration rush that followed, to practical tips to help improve incident response planning, the group discusses how to…

On March 8th, our company will proudly celebrate International Women’s Day. While this year’s theme, Break the Bias, applies to women in every professional field and country, we find it particularly relevant to the cybersecurity industry. Gender bias has gone on for too long. Many women haven’t been given the recognition and opportunities they deserve. …

Europe’s top value-added distributor has selected CYREBRO’s interactive cloud-based platform to provide an easy to implement, cost-effective solution to MS(S)Ps across Europe MUNICH, GERMANY and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — AUGUST 10, 2021 – CYREBRO, the only interactive SOC platform solution for SMBs, today announced that Infinigate, Europe’s largest purveyor of cybersecurity solutions, will be using…

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — AUGUST 2, 2021 – CYREBRO, the only interactive SOC platform solution for SMBs, today announced that CEO and co-founder Nadav Arbel has been named a Finalist in the Top 10 Cybersecurity Experts for 2021 category at the Black Unicorn Awards for 2021 which take place annually at the Black Hat USA…

When we first established our company, our goal was clear. We were on a mission to provide strategic support to Fortune 500 companies by helping them optimize their cybersecurity posture. Our way to do this was to leverage our team’s real-world experiences and deep domain expertise in cyber-forensics investigations, IR, and ethical hacking to provide…