SecureOps March Cyber Brief
Management’s Corner
For our fourth Newsletter of 2023, we are going to take advantage of the current news in our industry which includes the Indigo Ransomware Attack and the emergence of BlackMamba Ransomware. We unpack those two stores then we’ll discuss the evolution of malware, which unfortunately seems to us like it may be gaining speed. We also added two recent blog posts on Network Security Concepts, in which we leveraged a ChatGPT-like AI-bot to write. Finally, we define and explain SSE or Security Services Edge cyber defense technology.
We have over 140 blog posts on our site, and many of the articles are geared to define cyber technologies and their contribution to an organization’s security posture and cyber defense. That said, any layered defense solution can be extremely cumbersome and difficult to manage – we are here to help if you have any questions.
Enjoy…and to reiterate, when you reach out, we will put you in touch with a specialist to answer any IT security-related questions. Seriously, happy to help.
The Indigo Bookstore Ransom Cyber Attack – Lessons Learned
The Indigo Hack was a zero-day exploit ransomware attack that targeted the Indigo Bookstores based in Montreal, Canada. This type of malicious cyber attack is highly dangerous as it is done using zero-day exploits, which means the vulnerabilities being exploited have not previously been identified. Unfortunately, sometimes hackers or malicious actors spot the vulnerability before the software developers do. While the vulnerability is still open, attackers can write and implement code to take advantage of it. We’ll break down the attack in this blog post.
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'BlackMamba' AI-Keylogging Malware Attack Is Here - What You Need to Know
A new strain of malware has been discovered that is powered by artificial intelligence, and it's already making headlines in the cybersecurity community. Dubbed "BlackMamba," this keylogging attack has the potential to completely evade most existing endpoint detection and response (EDR) security solutions. In this blog post, we'll take a closer look at what this attack is, how it works, and why it's so dangerous.
Two Fantastic Articles Discussing the Impact of BlackMamba
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HYAS Lab Blog Post - BlackMamba: Using AI to Generate Polymorphic Malware – Excellent article! You can even download their White Paper
AI-Powered 'BlackMamba' Keylogging Attack Evades Modern EDR Security – A Great Article by Dark Reading – One of our favorite resources
Malware: Old Tools; New Tricks
With BlackMamba and other AI-powered malware attacks increasing, the trend made us take a step back and think about the evolution of malware. Thus, we decided to provide you with a blog post we wrote last summer on the ever-changing malware landscape. We discussed how malware variants continue to grow in scope and sophistication. Threat actors work quietly behind the scenes persistently and aggressively, adapting new techniques and strategies into their design paradigms. Every new platform that emerges represents another lucrative opportunity. The intrinsic cat-and-mouse game between malware developers and IT security that’s been going on for years shows no sign of stopping.
20 Basic Network Security Concepts You Need to Know
This is our first blog post partially written by an artificial intelligence bot like ChatGPT. We did not use the all-popular https://chat.openai.com/chat, we used another more sophisticated bot that was able to write approximately 15% of the post. I absolutely had to give it quite a bit of help in terms of adding keywords, and tone, eliminating duplication of content, and some other bits of tweaking. That said, we were able to scour 25+ sources to find the 20 Network Security Concepts that you will read about in this blog post.
Will Your Organization Benefit from Security Services Edge (SSE)?
Fundamentally, SSE provides the security service elements of a comprehensive SASE strategy - SSE is a subset or component of a SASE solution or strategy. SSE delivers access control, threat protection, data security, security monitoring, and acceptable use control functionality into a single cloud-delivered solution. Further, when SSE is combined with SD-WAN, it forms a comprehensive SASE platform, providing monitoring and policy enforcement with integrated network controls and application APIs augmented by endpoint-based controls.