Cyber Threat Intelligence

• May 17 2021
• William Altman

Cyber catastrophe meets enterprise ransomware: Colonial Pipeline attack

Cyber criminal gangs are targeting single-point-of-failure technologies and CyberCube can help (re)insurers both identify key SPoF-related cyber risks and model threats to SPoF technologies and companies.

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• Mar 25 2021
• William Altman

Three cyber insurance takeaways from the OVHCloud fire

The OVHCloud data center fire highlights important lessons for cyber insurers

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• Jan 15 2021
• Darren Thomson

Advances in social engineering technology (and why we should care)

Social engineering is not new but recent developments in this area leverage AI to make techniques all the more powerful and dangerous.

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• Dec 24 2020
• Alejandro Sauter

Analyzing the footprint of recent Chrome and Windows zero-days discovery

Palo Alto Networks said “80% of exploits publish faster than CVEs” in August. We are facing this with two new zero-days being exploited in the wild in the most popular browser and OS in the world. Here we will explore the proportion of impacted networks and if any of them are quick to react (i.e. patch).

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• Nov 30 2020
• Darren Thomson

Another Cloud Outage – Are We Headed For “The Big One”?

AWS customers experienced another service outage last week as an apparently non-malicious incident took services down for around 8 hours.

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• Nov 6 2020
• Darren Thomson

Enterprise Ransomware: To Pay or Not to Pay… Is that even the question?

Paying ransoms to cybercriminals may not continue to be an option to legitimate businesses as the US government warns of penalties for organizations who fund criminal gangs

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• Oct 15 2020
• Wenfeng Yan

More Cloudy, Less Chance of Data Breach?

CyberCube's cyber data correlation analysis shows that more cloud adoptions are not automatically guaranteed less data breach incidents.

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• Sep 17 2020
• Darren Thomson

Automation in cyber crime – A key enabler of future risk accumulation?

Automation and associated technologies could lead to more frequent risk accumulation events.

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• Sep 11 2020
• Charlotte Anderson

Attack Vector Deep Dive: Mobile Attacks

The main types of cyber attacks on mobile devices

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• Sep 4 2020
• Mohammad Al Boni

CyberTrends: Extracting Insights from news articles

Machine Learning, Text Analysis, Cyber News, Correlation Analysis, Topic Modeling, Document Embeddings

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• Aug 27 2020
• Charlotte Anderson

Attack Vector Deep Dive: Exposed Databases

This blog discusses the main types of attacks that occur on exposed databases, and important security steps toward protecting enterprises from this risk.

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• Jul 15 2020
• Darren Thomson

Ransomware and the “Double-Dipping” Trend

A recent trend in enterprise ransomware sees criminals making not one, but two financial demands

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