Stay informed with articles on threat intelligence practices that help organizations anticipate, identify, and respond to cyber threats. This tag covers threat feeds, indicators of compromise, adversary tracking, intelligence sharing frameworks, and how to build an effective threat intelligence program.
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Colonial Pipeline Was Just the Beginning In May 2021, a single compromised password shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. Colonial Pipeline paid DarkSide operators $4.4 million in ransom. Fuel shortages rippled across the Southeast for days. That attack used just one of the many types
Your Employees' Passwords Are Already for Sale In March 2024, a single dark web marketplace listed over 10 billion stolen credentials. That's not a typo. The Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report found that stolen credentials were involved in roughly 31% of all breaches over the past
In April 2024, a credentials dump containing over 26 billion records — dubbed the "Mother of All Breaches" — surfaced on dark web forums. LinkedIn, Twitter, Dropbox, Adobe, and hundreds of other platforms were represented. Within weeks, threat actors were using those credentials in automated stuffing attacks against small and
Your Employees' Passwords Are Probably Already There In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — and a significant share of that activity traces back to credentials and data traded on dark web marketplaces. If you&
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase from the year before. A massive share of those incidents started with a single piece of malicious software landing on someone's machine.
