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Trends und Top-Themen in 2025 : Prognosen zur Cybersicherheit

Dec 4, 2024 | globalsecuritymag.fr | Daniel dos Santos |Rik Ferguson

Trends und Top-Themen in 2025: Prognosen zur CybersicherheitCyber-Bedrohungslandschaft wird 2025 komplexer und vielschichtiger als je zuvor. Forescout Technologies gibt seine Prognosen für das Jahr 2025 bekannt: Was sind die Technologie- und Markttrends in 2025, welche potenzielle Risiken drohen, die IT-Verantwortliche im Blick haben sollten? Die Forescout-Experten Rik Ferguson und Daniel dos Santos haben Vorhersagen für 2025 getroffen.
The current state of ransomware risk

Oct 20, 2024 | frontier-enterprise.com | Daniel dos Santos

- Advertisement -Ransomware risk is top of mind for both citizens and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). From the boardroom to the Security Operations Centre (SOC), everyone is feeling the pain of disruption. Our working lives are thrown into disarray when we’re locked out of systems, compelling us to revert to pen and paper. Too often, ransomware delays much-needed surgeries or requires manual intervention where digital processes were once easy and efficient.
Guest Essay: The urgent need to improve firmware security - especially in OT and IoT routers

Aug 26, 2024 | securityboulevard.com | Daniel dos Santos

By Daniel dos Santos As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, the security of Operational Technology (OT) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices is more critical than ever. New findings from Forescout – Vedere Labs, the industry leader in device intelligence, and Finite State, an industry leader in software supply chain security, emphasize the critical state of software supply chains in OT and IoT routers, revealing widespread vulnerabilities.
The Chinese Communist Party's Threat to US Critical Infrastructure

Feb 1, 2024 | forescout.com | Daniel dos Santos |Alison King

Against the backdrop of global tensions in Israel, Ukraine, and the South China Sea, US officials testified before Congress that they disrupted a serious Chinese cyberattack aimed at embedding malware within the nation’s critical infrastructure. At the heart of this revelation is a botnet compromising hundreds of small office and home routers controlled by Chinese hackers.
Op-ed: Understanding AI-assisted cyberattack challenge for OT and unmanaged devices

Sep 17, 2023 | cybersecurityconnect.com.au | Daniel dos Santos

Malicious code is not difficult to find these days, even for OT, IoT and other embedded and unmanaged devices. Cyber-criminals are continually targeting public exploit proof-of-concept (PoCs), typically porting them into something more useful or less detectable by adding payloads, packaging them into a malware module, or rewriting them to run in other execution environments.
Navigating future AI-assisted cyberattacks

Aug 30, 2023 | idm.net.au | Daniel dos Santos

Malicious code is becoming increasingly common to find, both for traditional IT software as well as for OT, IoT and other embedded and unmanaged devices. Malicious actors are targeting public exploit proofs-of-concept (PoCs), typically porting them into something more useful or less detectable by adding payloads, packaging them into a malware module or rewriting them to run in other execution environments.
Unveiling the Hidden Risks of Routing Protocols

Aug 18, 2023 | darkreading.com | Daniel dos Santos

Source: vska via Alamy Stock PhotoRouting protocols play a critical role in the functioning of the Internet and the services built upon them. However, many of these protocols were developed without security concerns in mind. For example, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) did not originally consider the potential for attacks between peers. Much work has been dedicated in the past decades to origin and path validation in BGP.
You’re Not Hallucinating: AI-Assisted Cyberattacks Are Coming to Healthcare, Too

Jul 18, 2023 | forescout.com | Daniel dos Santos

We recently published a blog post detailing how threat actors could leverage AI tools such as ChatGPT to assist in attacks targeting operational technology (OT) and unmanaged devices. In this blog post, we highlight why healthcare organizations should be particularly worried about this. First, the exploit we used in the previous example affects a vulnerability on a TCP/IP stack that is used in a myriad of devices, such as patient monitors and building automation devices of major vendors.
Schneider Power Meter Vulnerability Opens Door to Power Outages

Jun 20, 2023 | thetechstreetnow.com | Daniel dos Santos

7 minutes ago darkreading.com INFOSEC23 – London – A security vulnerability in the Schneider Electric ION and PowerLogic power meters has been disclosed: They transmit a user ID and password in plaintext with every message.
Op-Ed: Interrupt the routine, ruin a cyber criminal’s day

Apr 20, 2023 | cybersecurityconnect.com.au | Daniel dos Santos

Although we can’t look into the mind of a cyber criminal, it’s clear the goals of these perpetrators are evolving. Threat actors are no longer casting a wide net when carrying out attacks, and rather going after specific organisations, leading to far more successful infiltrations and attack campaigns. Although ransomware groups continue to evolve and refine their operations, the more things change, the more they remain the same.