Keeping up with cybersecurity news is a challenge. From newly discovered vulnerabilities to new attack methodologies, you live a life of “need to know” when ability to find is difficult. As a security professional, knowing is more than half the battle. To stay within your budget, you need the open ... Read More

Numerous security practitioners and software development teams often utilize public repositories in their daily roles. The goal of these public repositories is to help teams collaborate on improving coding, fixing vulnerabilities, and support building high-quality software for companies. Two of the most popular types of these repositories are Log4j and ... Read More

Executive Overview Illicit Telegram channels have become a growing concern in the realm of cybercrime. Threat actors want to connect with each other in fast, reliable, and “anonymous” ways. Telegram has been their answer, and malicious actors are increasingly moving off of Tor and onto the instant messaging platform.  Flare ... Read More

Malicious actors are sneaky. If their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) were obvious, their attacks wouldn’t be successful. Security teams would detect them before they achieved their objectives, and they wouldn’t be able to hide in systems and networks. However, once security professionals identify an attack type, they provide details ... Read More

Data leaks have become a growing concern for businesses, governments, and individuals in today’s hyper-connected digital world. In this article, we will provide a comprehensive guide to preventing and detecting data leaks, focusing on proven strategies and best practices. Understanding Data Leaks Before diving into prevention and detection methods, it ... Read More

Executive Overview Threat actors have escalated the single extortion ransomware attack model to double and even triple extortion.  With the commodification of cybercrime, adversaries have significantly increased the sophistication levels of their operations, and therefore also the potential devastating impacts of a ransomware attack.  Flare Director of Marketing Eric Clay ... Read More

Flare is heading to San Francisco later this month for RSA and BSidesSF. These are the first events where we’ll live demo our AI Powered Assistant! We can’t wait to show you how we’re leveraging large language models to enable streamlining threat detection and response, prioritizing important information, and accessing ... Read More

There are two major trends coming together in the realm of cyber threats: 1) generative AI applications are redefining how we engage with each other and our environments, and 2) threat actors are abusing these same generative AI applications that are creating new positive possibilities to manipulate them for malicious ... Read More

The dark web is often a mysterious and misunderstood corner of cyberspace. Often misrepresented as accessible from the greater public view of the internet, the dark web is actually not as readily as accessible as it may seem to be. This is because it is a non-public facing corner of ... Read More

In today’s ever-changing threat landscape, employing security-based testing is more important than ever before. As organizations continue to rely on the latest technology to execute their daily business operations successfully, the risk of cyberattacks only continues to increase exponentially. For this reason, countless companies are turning to conducting red teaming ... Read More