Incident response in 6 steps
By Asaf Perlman, Incident Response Leader Modern security tools continue to improve in their ability to defend organizations’ networks and endpoints against cybercriminals. But the bad actors still occasionally find a way in.... READ MORE
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CyOps Threat Alert: LockBit3(LockBit Black)
By Ronen Ahdut, Cyber Threat Intelligence Leader LockBit was introduced in 2019 and operates... READ MORE
CyOps Lighthouse: Luca Stealer
By Ronen Ahdut – Sr. CyOps Analyst The Darknet is home to many underground hacking forums.... READ MORE
How to stay safe against attacks like the recent Cisco hack
By Ronen Ahdut – Sr. CyOps Analyst There is one striking similarity between the recent Cis... READ MORE
Supercharge your resource-strapped security team
Microsoft, Toyota, Nvidia — cyberattacks on big corporations dominated news headlines this ye... READ MORE
6 steps to building a lean security framework
“Patchwork enforcement mechanisms continue to hamper efforts to control cybercrime.” – W... READ MORE
CyOps Lighthouse: Eternity Project
By Ronen Ahdut – Sr. CyOps Analyst The Darknet is home to many underground hacking forums.... READ MORE
Why Cynet is sponsoring the Houston Hurricanes in the World Series of Beep Baseball
The beep of a ball. The crack of a bat. The roar of the crowd. Sound is what makes this sport s... READ MORE
Seismic Shifts: Surprising Insights from 2022 CISO Survey of Small Security Teams
Lack of staff, threat visibility, and technology consolidation drive priorities It’s no se... READ MORE
CyOps Lighthouse: Malware-as-a-service (MaaS)
By Ronen Ahdut – Sr. CyOps Analyst The Darknet is home to many underground hacking forums... READ MORE
CyOps Threat Alert: Follina mitigated, the recent MSDT 0-Day Vulnerability Explained
By: Daniel Lippa – CyOps analyst Follina in a nutshell Disclosed on May 30th, CVE-2022-3019... READ MORE
Social Engineering: What you need to know to stay resilient
There’s a good chance you’ve been exposed to at least one social engineering attack. Unless... READ MORE
Orion Threat Alert: Flight of the BumbleBee
By: Max Malyutin – Orion Threat Research Team Leader Orion, Cynet’s Threat Research and... READ MORE
Learn how to interpret the 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation results
Update: This blog post was edited on April 8, 2022, to provide clarification on Cynet’s resul... READ MORE
CyOps Lighthouse: Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS)
The Darknet is home to many underground hacking forums. In these forums Cybercriminals talk fre... READ MORE
Cynet is #2 in G2's Best Security Products List!
G2 has been very kind to us this year. Today they announced their 50 Best Security Products Lis... READ MORE
Spilling the Visibili-tea
Every single vendor out there has some sort of story on threat visibility. It’s been a topic... READ MORE
XDR - A game changer for MSSPs
MSSP’s: what would SMBs do without you? As someone who spent a significant portion of her car... READ MORE
G2 Winter Report: Cynet rated #1 in best XDR, MDR, EDR and Incident Response Solutions
Did someone say award season? As was announced in PR Newswire last week – we were recogniz... READ MORE
Cynet Named a “Pioneer in XDR” by eSecurityPlanet
Cynet was recently recognized as one of the top XDR providers in 2021 by eSecurit... READ MORE
Cynet and Crowstrike Rank Best in eSecurity Planet’s Newest Top EDR Providers for July 2021
Crowdstrike and Cynet have outperformed the pack in eSecurity Planet’s most recent update... READ MORE
PrintNightmare - Windows Print Spooler Patched Vulnerability Remains Exploitable
Introduction On June 29th, security researchers demonstrated that the patch Microsoft rele... READ MORE
Cynet Participates in Locked Shields 2021
Last week, Cynet CyOps participated in the annual cyber exercise organized by NATO Cooperative... READ MORE
Cynet Reveals its MITRE ATT&CK 2020 Evaluation Results
Cynet Achieves 100% Visibility and Detection Across All Steps of the MITRE Carbanak+FIN7 ATT&am... READ MORE
Cynet vs. HAFNIUM
By: Max Malyutin – Sr. Threat Researcher Introduction Cynet’s customers are fully protected... READ MORE
China Chopper Observed in Recent MS Exchange Server Attacks
By: Max Malyutin - Sr. Threat Researcher Overview On Monday, March 2, 2021, Microsoft publicly... READ MORE
2021 Survey of CISOs with Small Security Teams: The Push for More Usable Cybersecurity Technologies
Cynet just released what may be the first-ever survey of CISOs with small security teams (acces... READ MORE
Respond at The Speed of Light
Whether you are a big hitter in the cybersecurity landscape, with your own SOC team, or you are... READ MORE
Selecting The Right XDR Provider
You might be forgiven for wondering why, with all of the sophisticated cybersecurity systems at... READ MORE
Incident Responses Are an Integral Part Of Cybersecurity
Incident Responses, or IRs are an integral part of cybersecurity. Generally triggered by securi... READ MORE
Security Team Assessment
2020 has been an unusual year, and as it draws to a close, focus is now turned onto the budgeta... READ MORE
How Incident Response Companies Choose IR Tools
An Internet Response (IR) is a company’s organized reaction to managing a cybersecurity breac... READ MORE
COVID-19's Impact on Cyber Security
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected multiple areas of our lives, so it was probably inevitable t... READ MORE
Cynet Security Critical Update - SolarWinds Supply-Chain Attack
Last Sunday, December 13th, the IT industry in general, and the IT Security sector specifically... READ MORE
The Services You Should Expect From Your MDR Provider
Few CISOs can claim to know all there is to know about cybersecurity—their job involves so mu... READ MORE
FireEyes’ latest breach leads to Red Team Tools exfiltration
In response to the events reported by FireEye, we would like to give you a quick update of... READ MORE
Why MSSPs Need Multitenant Security Solutions
The task of the Managed Security Service Provider or MSSP is not an easy one. Their job is to p... READ MORE
Cybersecurity Budget Template
As the CISO of your company, one of the critical events of the year is planning the forthcoming... READ MORE
How To Get Your Hands on Deception Technology
It is every security manager’s worst nightmare—the thought of a random hacker breaking into... READ MORE
How Do You Know If You’re Getting Enough Value From Your EDR Solution?
Many companies use Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions as their primary breach prev... READ MORE
Cynet 2020 - Fall Platform Release: XDR, Response Automation, and MDR in one platform
The Cynet 4.0 release includes a major upgrade to the Cynet platform Most product relea... READ MORE
Taking Prevention, Detection and Response to the Next Level with Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Cybersecurity Needs a Rebuild, Not Duct Tape Cyberthreat protection is broken. If it was... READ MORE
Threat Report: Lockbit Ransomware
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LockBit is a relatively new Ransomware that started in September 2019, where... READ MORE
Cynet 2020 IR Challenge Solutions
Introduction Why did we create the IR Challenge? The IR challenge consists of 25 challenges... READ MORE
Cynet Launches the First of its Kind Public Incident Response ‘Capture the Evidence’ Challenge – with a First Prize of $5,000
Today, we're proud to announce the launch of a first-of-its-kind challenge to enable Incident R... READ MORE
Half of the Malware Detected in 2019 was Classified as Zero-Day Threats, Making it the Most Common Malware to Date
Technology and Intel is wrapping itself around our lives at an astonishing speed, slipping into... READ MORE
Recent Escalations in Cyberattacks in Italy Prove the Coronavirus Impact on Cybersecurity - Acting as a Warning for CISOs Worldwide
The global Coronavirus epidemic impacts economies worldwide, creating a new reality in which ma... READ MORE
Warning Signs That You May Be Under an APT Attack
For corporate cybersecurity professionals all around the globe, the threat of an APT Attack... READ MORE
Browser Exploits – Legitimate Web Surfing Turned Death Trap
On January 7th, the Mozilla Foundation disclosed a flaw in Firefox 72 that made it possible... READ MORE
The State of Breach Protection 2020 | Global Survey and Industry Report
What are the key considerations security decision makers should take into account when desi... READ MORE
EternalBlue: The Lethal Nation-State Exploit Tool Gone Wild
There’s a good chance you've heard of EternalBlue, the infamous exploit responsible for a sle... READ MORE
Botnet Attacks: Transforming Your IT Resources into an Army of Zombies
One computer program that automatically performs a repetitive malicious task is called a bot. M... READ MORE
Download 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results
The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey was an online survey published to gain insight into the de... READ MORE
Cryptominers: The Silent Leeches Draining Your Computing Resources
Today, we’re surrounded by an endless supply of devices, all with some amount of computin... READ MORE
Exploit Kits: Their Evolution, Trends and Impact
What Are Exploit Kits? Exploit kits are a type of all-inclusive, automated, and rapidly deploy... READ MORE
The 7 Best Free and Open-Source Incident Response Tools
What Is Incident Response? Being prepared is key to responding to security incidents in an acc... READ MORE
6 Incident Response Steps for Effective Security Event Mitigation
Like any other emergency situation, security incidents require swift, coordinated action. But o... READ MORE
What Are LOLBins and How Do Attackers Use Them in Fileless Attacks?
What Is “Living off the Land?” The term “living off the land” (LOL) was coined by malwa... READ MORE
A Guide to Malware Detection Techniques: AV, NGAV, and Beyond
Back in the early days of malware, scammers spread their wares around from user to user via inf... READ MORE
How the Next Generation of EDR Turns the Tables on Hackers
Endpoint - Where the Interesting Stuff Takes Place The endpoint has always been the ultimate a... READ MORE
A Guide to Rootkit Detection: History, Methods and More
In mid-April 2019, a new and sophisticated malware threat began to appear on computers of home... READ MORE
Insider Threat Detection: Recognizing and Preventing One of Today’s Worst Threats
What Is an Insider Threat? As the name plainly suggests, insider threats are risks caused by i... READ MORE
Protecting Against Advanced Persistent Threats in 2019 and Beyond
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are targeted extended attacks usually conducted with the goa... READ MORE
Ransomware Never Dies – Analysis of New Sodinokibi Ransomware Variant
Summary CyOps, Cynet SOC team, recently encountered a new variant of the Sodinokibi ransomware... READ MORE
Incident Response at the Speed of Light
As organizations come to the realization that they cannot skimp on security, they are increasin... READ MORE
The Definitive Security for Management PPT Template
People, not Technology Cybersecurity is never just about technology. At the end of the day,... READ MORE
Four SOC 2 Technical Controls That You Want to Get Right!
I run into many organizations who are evaluating if they should get a SOC 2. Typically, these a... READ MORE
Cynet Free Visibility Campaign Provides Full Insight into Internal Network
One of the biggest challenges facing IT security teams is protecting organizational assets, as... READ MORE
The Ursnif Trojan: An Attack Overview and Zoom-In on New Variant
Over the course of the last few months, we at Cynet labs have encountered multiple occurrences... READ MORE
The Easiest Threat Prevention - Streamlining Software Vulnerability Management
May 12th marked the second anniversary of one of the most globally devastating cyberattacks in... READ MORE
Cynet Insights on Gartner’s Top 10 Security Projects for 2019
When it comes to security, prioritization is often the most used word. With an ever-increasing... READ MORE
Introducing Cynet's Free IR Tool for Organizations & Cyber Responders
As organizations have become more aware of the very real threat of breach, and as security prac... READ MORE
5 Tips To Help Small to Mid-Sized Businesses Improve Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity threats need to be taken more seriously by businesses of all sizes. Security brea... READ MORE
451 Research: Cynet Aims to Consolidate Breach-Protection Efforts in a Single Platform
The Cynet 360 platform is the subject of a new analyst review put out by 451 Research, "Cyn... READ MORE
IDC: Forging a Solution for Comprehensive, Integrated Security with Cynet
In their new vendor profile, “Cynet: Forging a Solution for Comprehensive, Integrated Sec... READ MORE
One Bot Campaign and Three Cyber Protection Insights
Introduction On the course of our ongoing analysis of telemetry and files within our install b... READ MORE
Mid-sized and Small Businesses Cybersecurity: Top 3 Myths
By Wade P. Richmond If you follow ANY news these days, you can’t help but become aware of... READ MORE
Threat Landscape Insights – Small and Mid-Sized Organizations Advance to the First Line of Fire
New Threat Trends Crossing-checking various independent threat reports reveals that 2018 fea... READ MORE
Free Threat Assessment Offering for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations
Know Your Risk Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone... READ MORE
New Wave of Ursnif Swarms Europe
Cynet’s team of security analysts and threat researchers have uncovered a new wave of attacks... READ MORE
Cynet Breach Protection Platform – Full Protection from LockerGoga Ransomware
The Ransomware Race Ransomware attacks are common reality. However, the recent variants of Loc... READ MORE
Reflections on Consolidation Trends – Go Shopping or Go Native
It’s the Age of Consolidation Consolidation is one of the top discussion issues in the cyber... READ MORE
Refund and Replace with Cynet Security Platform
Rip Refund and Replace with Cynet Security Platform The Hunt for Advanced Threat Protection... READ MORE
Reflections on M&A Cybersecurity Issues
The latest testimonial on the Marriot data breach throws another spotlight on the security risk... READ MORE
The Malicious Quartette – Composition for the Attacker, WMI, CMD.EXE and Two LOLbins
By: Ron Lifinski and Haim Zigel A Cynet Research Blog - Cyberattacks are continuously e... READ MORE
5 Steps to Achieving PCI Compliance
Meeting PCI Compliance Requirements It can be a difficult yet extremely important task for all... READ MORE
2019 INDUSTRY REPORT - Mid-Sized Organizations: The Urgent Need for Comprehensive Simplicity in Cyber Defense
The Urgent Need for Comprehensive Simplicity in Cyber Defense During the month of November 201... READ MORE
How to Secure Your Mid-Sized Organization from the Next Cyber Attack
If you are responsible for the cybersecurity of a medium-sized company, you may assume your org... READ MORE
Securing Your Organization's Network on a Shoestring
In this blog post, we will discuss how to protect your resource-constrained organization’s en... READ MORE
Self-Audit Guide: Cybersecurity Effectiveness for the Resource-Constrained Organization
A Primer for Moving Beyond AV and Firewalls: The Problem - As software systems become more dis... READ MORE
How Hackers Use DNS Tunneling to Own Your Network
By: Ron Lifinski, Cyber Security Researcher DNS Tunneling Most organizations have a firewall t... READ MORE
Threat Review: Bypassing and Evading Host-based Detection through .NET Binary Abuse
By: Daniel Bresler, CyOps Team Leader .NET binary abuse is not overly sophisticated, nor is... READ MORE
Cynet Raises $13M to Fuel Growth
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As part of its mission to combine easy management with top-t... READ MORE
Now Available for Download: The CISO Handbook
A new, important document for CISOs, CIOs and other cyber security professionals was released b... READ MORE
Do You Really Need a SOC?
By: Tzah Malka, Cynet Cyber SWAT Team Manager These days cyber criminals are more advanced t... READ MORE
Making Threat Intelligence Work for You
As cyber attacks and threats have grown more complex, our knowledge of them has increased as we... READ MORE
Proactive Security through Threat Hunting - Part 2
In part one of our series on taking a proactive approach to cyber security, we discussed the id... READ MORE
The Good & the Bad of the Cyber Hack - Part 1
Black Hat, White Hat, Grey Hat. Good hackers and bad hackers. Bad hackers that become good (aka... READ MORE
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Security
Our lives are more and more Mister Robot, and the industries which surround our lives are incre... READ MORE
BYOD & the Weakest Link
In an age of BYOD, far, far removed from the big and clunky mobile phones of the days of yore,... READ MORE
The Evolution of the Attack Kill Chain
Born of Necessity - The Cyber Kill Chain Way back in 2011, Lockheed Martin introduced the cybe... READ MORE
Can Big Data Ever Be Secure?
Big Data makes for big headlines. We talk about everything from its applications – with more... READ MORE
The Orbitz Attack & the Visibility Achilles Heel
You’ve Been Breached – Welcome to the Club “Your account information may have been com... READ MORE
The Italian Botnet Attacks
Cynet Detects the Mail Botnet That Has Been Hitting Italian Companies The Cynet 360 holistic... READ MORE
Stopping Hidden Threats: Fileless Attacks
Cybercrime never stands still. Online crooks are always looking for a new edge to make their at... READ MORE
Introducing Cynet Critical Component Whitelisting
Comprehensive Protection & Detection for Total Cyber Health There are multiple parall... READ MORE
Cynet’s Response to Uber’s Extortion Payment
Yesterday Uber revealed that it has kept silent for more than a year about a massive data breac... READ MORE
How Cynet Stops CSV / DDE Injections
CSV/DDE injection attacks have recently popped back up in the cyber world, with Cynet researche... READ MORE
The Year of Ransomware
Ransomware has dominated the cybersecurity landscape in 2017, with organizations of every size... READ MORE
2017: The Ransomware Nightmare
It’s Halloween today, a few days after the recent Bad Rabbit ransomware attack that impacted... READ MORE
A Technical View of Bad Rabbit: Blog Part 2
A Technical View of Bad Rabbit: Blog Part 2 Here’s what we know about Bad Rabbit, the rans... READ MORE
Cynet Stopped Bad Rabbit: Blog Part 1
What is being labeled as ransomware makes an appearance again, the latest in 2017's saga of att... READ MORE
New York's Strict New Cyber Regulations: Just the Beginning
All eyes are on New York state as they institute the nation’s first of its kind cyber securit... READ MORE
Multiple Security Vendors… A Recipe for Disaster
By Yossi Geller The cyber arms race has led organizations to stock-pile security solutions t... READ MORE
The Black-and-White of Black & White Hat-ers
By Inbal Aharoni It’s late one evening and a group of penetration testers are gathered aro... READ MORE
Living the CISO’s Nightmare? Simplify Your Security
As if CISOs didn’t have enough to worry about. Threats and vulnerabilities are constantly evo... READ MORE
Healthcare Breaches – the Tip of the Cyber-Iceberg
By Yossi Geller When it comes to cybercrime and healthcare, we are witnessing the tip of the... READ MORE
Ransomware Attacks Show Importance of Complex Protective Measures
By Amir Geri Last Tuesday, the world experienced another massive attack on its way of life.... READ MORE
Ransomware is Getting Faster – Is Your Security Keeping Up?
By Yossi Geller The recent wave of ransomware may be the sparks of a cyber revolution that h... READ MORE
Petya or NotPetya - Cynet Stops It
The big conversation around the recent ransomware attacks has been - Petya or NotPetya? So we s... READ MORE
A Technical Analysis of NotPetya
Unless you have been living under a rock, over the last couple days you probably heard a lot ab... READ MORE
MS Patch is Not Enough - See Cynet Stop Petya
If you thought you were safe because you patched Eternal Blue with Microsoft's MS17-010 patch,... READ MORE
Cynet Stops Ransomware Attacks in Italy Today
Our team of 24/7 security experts detected ransomware attacks on a number of our Italian custom... READ MORE
Are Law Firms the Next Victims of Ransomware Bad Guys?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Are Law Firms the Next Victims of Ransomware Bad Guys? La... READ MORE
The IT Security Double Whammy
The IT Security Double Whammy: a Lack of Cyber Security Professionals + Disjointed Security So... READ MORE
Ransomware Breaks the Bank – Depending on How You Look at It
The noise over WannaCry has lowered from its fevered pitch as organizations around the globe ha... READ MORE
Cynet 360 Stops WannaCry Ransomware
It's being called the world's biggest ransomware operation ever. The back-story is known to... READ MORE
Critical Issue Opened Private Chats of Facebook Messenger Users Up to Attackers
An estimated 1.8-billion active monthly users trust Facebook to keep their accounts, user detai... READ MORE
In Case You Missed It... News from the Cyber Headlines
Healthcare organizations and the high cost of ransomware Cyber attacks on healthcare organizat... READ MORE
‘SNAP’ - Millions of LG Smartphone Devices are Vulnerable to Phone Hijack
Overview BugSec and Cynet researchers discovered a severe security vulnerability in LG G3 smar... READ MORE
Vendors Say Not Worried About FireStorm
Following our last blog post, vendors say they are not worried about the FireStorm vulnerabilit... READ MORE
FireStorm: Severe Security Flaw Discovered in Next Generation Firewalls
BugSec Group and Cynet discovered a severe vulnerability in Next Generation Firewalls. Head of... READ MORE
Shelob Moonlight – Spinning a Larger Web From IcedID to CONTI, a Trojan and Ransomware collaboration
By Max Malyutin – Sr. Threat Researcher Introduction Cynet’s research and CyOps teams con... READ MORE
Ransomware Removal: Recovering Your Files and Cleaning Up Infected Systems
What is Ransomware? Ransomware is malware that encrypts user data and makes it inaccessible to... READ MORE
Cynet Orion Team – Threat Intel and Research
While tracking malicious spam campaigns at the beginning of September 2021, we discovered a new... READ MORE
Into the Cryptoverse - When cryptocurrency and cybersecurity collide
By: Ronen Ahdut Executive Summary In the past, threat actors have used financial information... READ MORE
Defense Evasion Techniques
Last updated: November 1st, 2021 Written by: Ariel silver Analyzing, detecting, and preventin... READ MORE
Lateral Movement Explained
Introduction The explosive growth of cloud-based technology in the past decade has generated a... READ MORE
Monthly Ransomware activity
Monthly Ransomware activity Written by: Maor Huli For October, we will introduce the fol... READ MORE
Cynet Ranked #2 of G2’s Best Security Products List
Cynet Ranked #2 of G2’s Best Security Products List G2 has been very kind to us this y... READ MORE
CYOPS IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE
CYOPS IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE As part of our ongoing threat intelligence efforts to discover... READ MORE