As per a series of conversations intercepted by Sectrio’s threat research team from various forums, China is learned to have identified Beijing-based APT 41 and Haikou, Hainan-based APT 40 as nodal cyber offense teams to initiate revenge attacks against many...
Yes, the time to act was yesterday, but is it too late to ramp up your cybersecurity posture now? Can investments in multi-level cybersecurity interventions at this point, save us from more cyberattacks in the future? While post-facto investments cannot secure data...
In January 2022, we witnessed a huge rise in ransomware attacks specifically on IoT and IT networks. Most of these attacks were designed to lock up the data, copy parts or whole of it and then dump the data on the Dark Web. If media reports are to be believed, many...
The convergence of IT-OT and IoT has opened new avenues for hackers to target systems based on those three technologies. OT however, has been impacted uniquely as the security dimensions of OT have not been fully understood by security practitioners. With the collapse...
Last week the Biden Administration announced the extension of the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Initiative to the water and wastewater treatment facilities. ICS across sectors is at risk from targeted cyberattacks. This is especially true of ICS...
The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has announced the release of a new Special Publication revision to verify the veracity of the implementation of security and privacy controls. Special Publication (SP) 800-53A Revision 5 includes updates that...