This report is about evolution, how phishing emails and malware are in a state of constant flux. But one thing hasn’t changed: phishing is still the #1 cyber-attack vector. The vast majority of breaches begin with malicious emails or other social engineering and most malware is delivered by email.

Positive Technologies experts regularly perform security analysis of mobile applications. This report summarizes the findings of their work performing security assessment of mobile apps for iOS and Android in 2018.

This monthly report offers insight into PDS2 regulations and devleopments.

This report offers quantitative findings from a study of UK individuals to measure and understand awareness and attitudes towards cyber security, and related behaviors. The findings are part of a wider research project to provide insight to inform HM Government’s approach to encourage positive behavior amongst the public in protecting themselves against cyber threats.

A study on the causes and evolution of Americans’ and Canadians’ stressors relating to cybersecurity and personal data protection

This paper, published in partnership with the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, highlights research indicating that “underserved” residents in San Francisco, California— including low-income residents, seniors, and foreign language speakers—face higher-than average risks of being victims of cyber attacks. They are less likely to know whether they have even been victimized by a cyber attack, and they have lower awareness of cybersecurity risks. Partly as a result, they are less likely to access online services. This cybersecurity gap is a new “digital divide” that needs to be addressed—with urgency—by the public and private sectors alike.

This unique report takes a hard look at scams that focus on tax reporting and the filing of taxes.

In this report, we’re going to give you an overview of the credential stuffing attacks in 2018 against the aforementioned sectors and look at the risks these attacks pose. We’ll also explore some of the ways adversaries conduct these attacks.

Contrary to popular belief, every device is worth hacking when the process is automated. It doesn’t matter who or where you are, if you own a company big or small, or have technology in the home – every device can be monetized by an enterprising criminal. Brute force login attempts are likely occurring on any online device. Yet the speed and scale of the problem can boggle the mind. Criminals are relentless and often competitive with one another to find, take over, and monetize your smart devices. The research you’ll find here, using honeypot devices across the internet, is a first step in attempting to quantify the issue.

Privileged access remains the preferred vector for attackers, and most organizations aren’t taking the very basic steps to secure it

This report offers information on Mobile Phishing from data researched in 2018.

This report takes a closer look at the number of breaches notified to regulators and the first fines issued under the new GDPR regime for the period from May 25, 2018, to January 28, 2019 - international Data Protection Day

This report offers insight into the need for a cyber risk ratings system.

From the report, “To generate this report, Coronet analyzed an enormous set of data comprised of both access and service threats. The data originated from Wi-Fi and cellular networks, devices spanning all operating systems and public network connectivity infrastructure. The data was aggregated and evaluated based on potential damage that could be caused by attackers and existing vulnerabilities in the 55 most populated DMAs, which together account for almost 70 percent of the entire U.S. population. The ranked results have been aggregated into regions which closely resemble Nielsen DMAs. Coronet ranked each city that was analyzed from most insecure to least vulnerable, with the most insecure cities scoring a 6.5 and above.” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “Two years ago, the authors assessed 20 mobile applications that worked with ICS software and hardware. At that time, mobile technologies were widespread, but IoT mania was only beginning. In that paper, the authors stated, “convenience often wins over security. Nowadays, you can monitor (or even control!) your ICS from a brand-new Android [device].” Today, the idea of putting logging, monitoring, and even supervisory/control functions in the cloud is not so farfetched. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the landscape has evolved over the past two years and assess the security posture of SCADA systems and mobile applications in this new IoT era.”

This paper demonstrates vulnerabilities that affect numerous traders. Among them are unencrypted authentication, communications, passwords, and trading data; remote DoS that leaves applications useless; trading programming languages that allow DLL imports; insecurely implemented chatbots; weak password policies; hardcoded secrets; and poor session management. In addition, many applications lack countermeasures, such as SSL certificate validation and root detection in mobile apps, privacy mode to mask sensitive values, and anti-exploitation and antireversing mitigations.

From the Report, “This paper is based on our own research, in which we discovered critical cybersecurity issues in several robots from multiple vendors. While we assist the vendors in addressing the cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified, we want to describe the currently available technology, some of the threats posed by a compromised robot, and the types of cybersecurity issues we discovered. The goal is to make robots more secure and prevent vulnerabilities from being used maliciously by attackers to cause serious harm to businesses, consumers, and their surroundings.”

The purpose of this research is to provide a comprehensive description of the technical details and approach IOActive used to discover vulnerabilities affecting widely deployed radiation monitoring devices. Our work involved software and firmware reverse engineering, RF analysis, and hardware hacking.

This case study, focuses on one of Claroty’s power plant installations. It illustrates challenges and solutions that are both unique to the power generation sub-segment, as well those that apply to the broader context of OT cybersecurity.

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.”

How is cyber-resilience defined and measured? How are breach risk and cyber resilience related, and what is the best way to improve cyber-resilience for an enterprise? This paper will answer these questions and shed light on steps you can take to improve the cyber-resilience of your enterprise.