What challenges test your threat intelligence capabilities? Security experts weigh-in

SC StaffAugust 21, 2023

In June 2023, CRA Business Intelligence conducted a survey asking 210 security and IT leaders and executives, practitioners, administrators, and compliance professionals in North America about the effectiveness of their organizations' threat intelligence programs and tools. Some respondents were forthcoming about the challenges testing their organizations' capabilities . Below are their verbatim responses found in the report, titled Threat intelligence: Eyes on the enemy.

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Threat Intelligence

Malicious PyPI, NPM packages facilitate data exfiltration

SC StaffSeptember 28, 2023

Forty-five malicious NPM and PyPI packages have been deployed by threat actors to facilitate extensive data theft operations as part of a campaign that commenced on Sept. 12, according to BleepingComputer.

Email security

State Department emails compromised in Microsoft breach

SC StaffSeptember 28, 2023

Sixty thousand emails from U.S. State Department accounts were noted by a staffer working for Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., to have been exfiltrated by Chinese threat actors during the widespread compromise of Microsoft email accounts that commenced in May, according to Reuters.

Threat Intelligence

Russian state hackers attempted to block Ukrainians from opening US bank accounts

Bradley BarthSeptember 28, 2023

Russian actors were behind a surge in an effort to block money transfers of Ukrainian war refugees, said Morgan Stanley’s Rachel Wilson at the InfoSec World 2023 conference.

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