Understanding Hardware Vulnerabilities and Advanced Persistent Threats

Hardware vulnerabilities have emerged as a critical concern in the rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape. As organizations strengthen their software defenses, attackers increasingly target hardware components to exploit inherent weaknesses. Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) — highly sophisticated and targeted attacks often backed by nation-states — leverage these hardware vulnerabilities to compromise systems at a fundamental level,… Read More

What Are State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks

If you’re interested in cybersecurity, you’ve most likely heard of the rise of state-sponsored cybersecurity attacks. With the growth of cloud platforms and third-party providers, you may not know that these attacks are now a threat to a broader range of organizations and businesses than ever before.  Here, we cover some of the latest state-sponsored… Read More

CVE-2024-3094 Utils and Vulnerabilities in Federal Linux Systems

Over the past week, a new vulnerability in the Linux operating system and the XZ compression utility has led to a new security alert and an immediate call to roll back some new updates. While this threat is a massive problem for federal IT systems relying on specific Linux distributions, it also highlights how poorly… Read More

What Is the Lifecycle of an Advanced Persistent Threat? 

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are some of the most dangerous and persistent cyberattacks that organizations face today. Understanding the APT lifecycle is crucial for organizations looking to protect their sensitive data and networks against these attacks.  The APT lifecycle consists of several stages: reconnaissance, initial compromise, establishing persistence, escalation of privileges, lateral movement, data exfiltration,… Read More