Threat Landscape Briefing – February 2024
In this month’s briefing we explore:
- Emerging Pressure Tactics in Ransomware Attacks (01:00)
- Ransomware syndicates are deploying increasingly aggressive methods to compel payment from their targets.
- See Info-Tech’s Build Resilience Against Ransomware Attacks
- Wrench Time for Cybersecurity: When Power Tools Go Rogue (03:55)
- A recent report revealed a critical vulnerability in a “smart nutrunner” widely used in automotive production lines.
- See Info-Tech’s Secure IT/OT Convergence
- Flaws Discovered in Quantum-Safe CRYSTALS-Kyber Algorithm (07:42)
- A researcher demonstrated how a timing attack could be used to recover a Kyber secret key.
- See Info-Tech’s Prepare for Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Security Researchers Discover 26 Billion Leaked User Records (10:19)
- On January 22, 2024, security researcher Bob Dyachenko exposed a data dump containing 26 billion records – a repository that has since been dubbed the “mother of all breaches” (MOAB).
- See Info-Tech’s Passwordless Authentication research
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