Network Security

As a security leader, safeguarding your organization against evolving threats means not only supporting distributed workforces and expanding cloud environments, but also choosing a security partner who strengthens your operational stability. Modern cybersecurity requires a truly unified platform that provides comprehensive visibility, scalable protections, and fully integrated processes. However, this is only possible if the […]

Last week, we highlighted how nation-state sabotage risked critical infrastructure and operations for modern enterprises. This week, we note the recent spate of terrorist attacks and increasing alarm from governments around the world. Please subscribe to read future issues — and forward this newsletter to interested colleagues. Contact us directly with any comments or questions:

The Good | $39M From Mass-Scale BEC Scam Recovered & Crypto Wallet Used by Cybercriminals Seized This week, international law enforcement efforts made major recoveries in business email compromise (BEC) scams and took down a notorious cryptocurrency platform used by threat actors. INTERPOL’s global stop-payment system, I-GRIP, successfully recovered over $41 million stolen in a

The infosec community continues to eye a worrying trend: how the barrier to entry for extortion-focused cybercriminals is nearly non-existent. With a wide selection of ransomware builders and resources now readily available, new and malicious operations are emerging at an alarming rate. One operation in particular called DeathGrip ransomware made its debut in June this

As more organizations adopt artificial intelligence (AI) in their businesses, the roles of Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), along with their collaborative responsibilities, are set to evolve. These have traditionally been technical, but are now becoming increasingly strategic as AI transforms business operations. CIOs are moving from managing IT needs

The recent global IT outage underscores the complexity of today’s global digital infrastructure. Companies need to understand their dependencies and downstream impacts to prepare for future events, which could come from malicious threat actors. Please subscribe to read future issues — and forward this newsletter to interested colleagues. Contact us directly with any comments or

Last week’s global IT outage made one thing clear: technology risk equals business risk. Insurers understand this, and SentinelOne is partnering with many of the industry’s top carriers and providers, including Aon, Chubb, AXA XL, Coalition, CFC, AtBay, Beazley, Hanover, Travelers, Corvus, and Crum & Forster to help organizations mitigate it. As cyber threats become

Executive Summary On July 19th, 2024, Windows 7 and above systems running CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor were served a faulty channel file that caused kernel instability and would result in a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) loop and the largest global IT outage in history. The culprit is Channel File 291 (named with a pattern ‘C-00000291-*.sys’)

The Good | Interpol-Led Operation Cracks Down on West African Cybercrime Syndicates The axe has fallen hard on West African crime syndicates as part of Operation Jackal III, a months-long law enforcement effort run across 21 countries. This week, Interpol reported some 300 arrests, the identification of over 400 suspects, 720 blocked bank accounts, and

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) has been the foundational technology of effective detection and response programs for many years, providing security teams with unparalleled visibility and response capabilities across end user systems, cloud workloads, and servers. While this remains true today, security operation centers (SOC) and incident response (IR) teams need additional capabilities ‘beyond the