Complex Threats: Ransomware, Hurricanes, Murder, Defacements, Bots, and Blackouts… ?
Over the course of this year, our team has shared a number of posts regarding blended and complex threats. As we see more occurrences and updates relating to these areas, we like to occasionally point out how such threats can manifest themselves in our current threat...
Prison Radicalization Doesn’t Have to be Inevitable, But Real Change Is Needed
By Bridget Johnson A federal judge delivered a pointed criticism of how the corrections system deals with jihadism when he ruled this summer that a convicted terror supporter would be less of a danger turned loose on supervised release than he might become if...
Potatoes and Tomatoes: You Say Blended, I Say Complex…
“If you don't immediately stop the clearing of the Hambach Forest, we will attack your servers and bring down your web pages, causing you economic damage that you will never recover from…” This blog has routinely featured posts addressing the idea of blended threats....
It’s Time for an FBI Cybercrime College Scholarship Program
by Andy Jabbour Seemingly every day a new data breach is reported, a new cybercrime effort is launched, fraud and extortion attempts are made, and organizations are attacked from threat actors from script kiddies to nation-states. The FBI has done a remarkable job of...
Blended Threats! McAfee Labs Addresses Digital Impacts to Physical Infrastructure
“Cyberattacks have always been, well, cyber. Their immediate effects were on our data, our digital information, and our devices…until they weren’t. The interconnected nature of the world and the way it’s built in 2018 has brought us exciting and revolutionary...
Blended Threats: Mining Takes a Toll!
A new report from the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) highlights one type of blended threat that organizations should be aware of. In this case, CTA demonstrates a cyber threat that can have crossover impacts and harm physical equipment. On 10 Sep, CTA released a new...