insider threats

Protecting Your Assets: Why Financial Services Firms Need Advanced Threat Detection
The financial services industry handles vast amounts of highly sensitive financial information, including customer data, transaction records, and intellectual property, making them a prime target for cyber attacks ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence Index: June 2023
Flashpoint’s monthly look at the cyber risk ecosystem affecting organizations around the world, including intelligence, news, data, and analysis about ransomware, vulnerabilities, data breaches, and insider threats. The post Cyber Threat Intelligence ...

3 Tips to Protect Employees From External Exploitation Threats
Here's how credentialed insider attacks work and how to avoid situations where user negligence can lead to successful attacks ...

Verizon’s Annual Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) Shines Spotlight on Ransomware Trends & Insider Threats
New research from Verizon reveals that ransomware is responsible for a sizable percentage of all recorded security incidents. Despite the alarming statistics raised in the report, the tech giant warns, we’re likely ...

Cyber Threat Intelligence Index: May 2023
Flashpoint’s monthly look at the cyber risk ecosystem affecting organizations around the world, including intelligence, news, data, and analysis about ransomware, vulnerabilities, data breaches, and insider threats. The post Cyber Threat Intelligence ...

Federal Appellate Court Approves ‘Pretext’ Border Search
For almost nine years, Chinese national and U.S. resident Haitao Xiang had been employed by the Monsanto company in St. Louis, Missouri, as a research application engineer specializing in hyperspectral imaging technology ...

Risk Intelligence Index: The April 2023 Cyber Threat Landscape
Flashpoint’s monthly look at the cyber risk ecosystem affecting organizations including ransomware, vulnerabilities, and insider threats. The post Risk Intelligence Index: The April 2023 Cyber Threat Landscape appeared first on Flashpoint ...
Insider Risk Detection 101: Mitigating Unintentional Insider Threats
When most people think of the insider threat, they think of that picture-perfect stock image of a man in a hoodie hunched menacingly over his laptop. The post Insider Risk Detection 101: ...

Threat Actors and APTs Target Australia, Stealing Over 50 Million Credentials
2022 has been an auspicious year for threat actors and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups targeting Australia, with adversaries stealing over 50 million credentials and personal information—a 99 percent increase compared to ...

Risk Intelligence Index: Cyber Threat Landscape By the Numbers
Flashpoint's monthly look at the cyber risk ecosystem affecting organizations around the world, including intelligence, news, data, and analysis about ransomware, vulnerabilities, insider threats, and high-profile cybercriminals The post Risk Intelligence Index: ...