From the report, “Welcome to Paladion’s Monthly Threat Report for October 2017. At Paladion CTAC we continuously track emerging threats and vulnerabilities to bring you timely, actionable threat intelligence. We provide this intelligence in machine-readable format from our Threat Intelligence Feeds, which can be directly integrated with your security devices. We also provide advisories on how you can prevent, detect, and respond to the latest threats as they happen. This report summarises the key findings of the stated month. It also contains insights related to threats and incidents that we have analysed.”

3rd-party (aka supply-chain) cyber attacks were one of the main reasons for major data breaches in 2018. Here is a recap of 3rd-party data breaches that hit the news in 2018

From the report, “All three of our stories in this issue of the State of the Internet / Security report are about things most organizations aren’t examining. Whether the cause is that organizations don’t perceive some issues as important to their environment, if they don’t have tooling to monitor these issues, or if the resources to monitor this traffic are not available, this traffic is often being overlooked.”

The 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), has been and continues to be one of the flagship strategic products for Europol. It provides a unique law enforcement focused assessment of the emerging threats and key developments in the field of cybercrime over the last year.

This report offers advice for what to do when the barbarians are at your door…

FireMon is proud to present its 3rd Annual State of the Firewall Report based on 437 survey responses collected between November 16, 2016 and December 6, 2016. Respondents included IT security practitioners representing a range of professional roles, organization sizes and industry verticals. Survey participants were asked 26 questions about their current firewall infrastructure and management challenges as well as questions about adoption and impact of emerging technologies such as SDN, cloud, microsegmentation and Internet of Things (IoT).

From the report, “A growing list of contractors and subcontractors have disclosed that they have been victims of data breaches resulting in the compromise of sensitive government information. In response, U.S. federal agencies have or are considering expanding cybersecurity requirements for their contractor base and adopting best practices for evaluating and monitoring those entities. In a recent study, BitSight found a large gap in the security posture between financial organizations and their third parties. This BitSight Insights report explores a similar question: what is the cybersecurity performance of U.S. federal contractors, and how does that compare to the performance of U.S. federal agencies?”

A review of the observed (externally facing) security practices of the Fortune 1000 firms.

This report takes a deep dive into examining the types of fraud that occur in the travel industry.

This report offers an inside look into how accounts are hacked and taken over.

Scott Adams has been at the front lines fighting fraud in the world of online games as former Vice-Chair Merchant Board at Payments Ed Forum, and former Director of Fraud and Risk Management at Riot Games. For nearly four years, he led his group to greatly reduce fraud and increase account security for the millions of people who play League of Legends worldwide. Scott’s experience and expertise includes Payment Processing, Anti-Fraud/Chargeback Management, and Connecting the Marketing/Business Departments with Customer Service and Information Technology Departments (Cross-Departmental Communications). Kount asked him to share his industry expertise and insights for combating card-not-present (CNP) fraud in the Online Games market.

From the report, “The widespread digitization of financial services is causing large-scale and sweeping transformations across various facets of the business, creating new growth opportunities but also new challenges and inherent risk. In the insurance sector, particularly, digital transformation is driven by new competitive threats, ongoing cost pressures, aging technology and increasing regulatory requirements. Put all together, there is a huge opportunity to modernize, to create new business models, acquire customers on new channels and create competitive and compelling customer experiences. ” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “Forter and PYMNTS.com have partnered to track, analyze and report on important fraud trends in the world of payments and online commerce. Every quarter, we monitor fraud attempts on U.S. merchant websites to give you the latest insights on what’s going on. (Note: For each of the Indexes in 2016, we’re using 2015’s fraud rates as a benchmark.) Our take-home this quarter: Fraud rates are climbing. They climbed last quarter and are still climbing this quarter. In fact, overall fraud rates have increased by 14 percent from last quarter to this quarter. To find out how fraudsters are doing it and what methods they favor, keep reading.” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “Forter and PYMNTS.com have partnered to track, analyze and report on the important trends happening in the world of fraud as it relates to payments and commerce online. Every quarter, we are monitoring fraud attempts, reflected as a percent of U.S. sales transactions , on U.S. merchant websites. How big is the storm? Where is it? How is it changing? Read on to find out. For each of the Index editions in 2016, we are using the fraud rates observed in 2015 as a benchmark for comparing the state of fraud each quarter.” Read on to find out more.

Forter and PYMNTS.com partnered together to track, analyze and report on the important trends happening in the world of fraud as it relates to payments and commerce online. Every quarter we will monitor how fraud attempts, reflected as a percent of U.S. sales transactions, on U.S. merchant websites are trending. Up? Down? Stable? Time to panic? Hopefully not.

From the report, “Overall, 2016 saw a steady rise in online fraud attack rate, which increased 8.9% over the course of the year. The frightening “tsunami” of fraud attempts that many merchants experienced at the end of 2015 was not repeated, but the moderate rate of increase was sustained. For several industries, primarily apparel, digital goods and travel, 2016 was a year of dramatic fluctuations, affected by numerous fraudsters who were looking for new vulnerabilities they can exploit.” Read on to find out more.

This report offers insight into 6 different fraud profiles in the online world.

From the report, “This report shares Feedzai’s original research. We found that fraudsters are attacking in methods that are faster and faster – and continuously new. The time horizon for the future of fraud has been shrinking. Today, the time horizon has shrunk to now. What does this new now look like?” Read on to find out more.

This report offers insight into authentication. It discusses some key problems with various standard authentication processes and highlights ways that authentication can be improved.

The Black Hat Edition of the Vectra® Attacker Behavior Industry Report provides a first-hand analysis of active and persistent attacker behaviors inside cloud, data center and enterprise environments of Vectra customers from January through June 2018.

The 2018 RSA Conference Edition of the Vectra Attacker Behavior Industry Report provides a first-hand analysis of active and persistent attacker behaviors inside cloud, data center and enterprise environments of Vectra customers from August 2017 through January 2018.