We often talk about the perils of downloading pirated versions of games, since they may harbor malware. But they aren’t the only threat. Nasty surprises can pop up in free-to-play games, too, which is what happened just recently with Super Mario 3: Mario Forever. But first things first… Malware in free-to-play Super Mario 3: Mario Forever The Super Mario series (aka Super Mario … [Read more...] about Malware in the free game Super Mario 3: Mario Forever
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Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
In a recent post, we showed you how to get started with the free and open tier of Elastic Observability. Below, we'll walk through what you need to do to expand your deployment so you can start gathering metrics from application performance monitoring (APM) or "tracing" data in your observability cluster, for free.What is APM?Application performance monitoring lets you see … [Read more...] about Adding free and open Elastic APM as part of your Elastic Observability deployment
Introducing Sandbox Scryer: A Free Threat Hunting Tool
Sandbox Scryer is an open-source tool for producing threat hunting and intelligence data from public sandbox detonation output The tool leverages the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to organize and prioritize findings, assisting in assembling indicators of compromise (IOCs), understanding attack movement and hunting threats By allowing researchers to send thousands of samples to a … [Read more...] about Introducing Sandbox Scryer: A Free Threat Hunting Tool
A Free Solution to Protect Your Business from 6 Biggest Cyber Threats in 2022
For the last few years, the cybersecurity threat landscape has gotten progressively more complex and dangerous. The online world is now rife with data thieves, extortionists, and even state actors looking to exploit vulnerabilities in businesses' digital defenses. And unfortunately — the bad guys have the upper hand at the moment. Part of the reason for that is the fallout … [Read more...] about A Free Solution to Protect Your Business from 6 Biggest Cyber Threats in 2022
CrowdStrike Services Releases Free Incident Response Tracker
The CrowdStrike Incident Response Tracker is a convenient spreadsheet that includes sections to document indicators of compromise, affected accounts, compromised systems and a timeline of significant events CrowdStrike incident response teams have leveraged this type of tracker in thousands of investigations Download the CrowdStrike Incident Response Tracker Template During a … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Services Releases Free Incident Response Tracker
CrowdStrike Launches Free Targeted Log4j Search Tool
The recently discovered Log4j vulnerability has serious potential to expose organizations across the globe to a new wave of cybersecurity risks as threat actors look to exploit this latest vulnerability to execute their malicious payloads using remote code execution (RCE). An immediate challenge that every organization faces is simply trying to understand exactly where you have … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Launches Free Targeted Log4j Search Tool
Here’s a New Free Tool to Discover Unprotected Cloud Storage Instances
The IDC cloud security survey 2021 states that as many as 98% of companies were victims of a cloud data breach within the past 18 months. Fostered by the pandemic, small and large organizations from all over the world are migrating their data and infrastructure into a public cloud, while often underestimating novel and cloud-specific security or privacy issues. Nearly every … [Read more...] about Here’s a New Free Tool to Discover Unprotected Cloud Storage Instances
Threat Intelligence in SecureX: Fast, Free, or Easy (pick any three)
SecureX is Cisco’s free, acronym-defying security platform. (“Is it XDR? Is it SOAR? Does it solve the same problems as a SIEM? As a TIP?” “Yes.”) From the very beginning, one of the pillars of SecureX was the ability to consume and operationalize your local security context alongside global threat intelligence. And to that end, SecureX includes, by default, a few very … [Read more...] about Threat Intelligence in SecureX: Fast, Free, or Easy (pick any three)
Microsoft Launches Free Linux Forensics and Rootkit Malware Detection Service
Microsoft has announced a new free-to-use initiative aimed at uncovering forensic evidence of sabotage on Linux systems, including rootkits and intrusive malware that may otherwise go undetected.The cloud offering, dubbed Project Freta, is a snapshot-based memory forensic mechanism that aims to provide automated full-system volatile memory inspection of virtual machine (VM) … [Read more...] about Microsoft Launches Free Linux Forensics and Rootkit Malware Detection Service
Solution Providers Can Now Add Incident Response to Their Services Portfolio For Free
The Incident Response (IR) services market is in accelerated growth due to the rise in cyberattacks that result in breaches. More and more organizations, across all sizes and verticals, choose to outsource IR to 3rd party service providers over handling security incidents in-house.Cynet is now launching a first-of-its-kind offering, enabling any Managed Security Provider (MSP) … [Read more...] about Solution Providers Can Now Add Incident Response to Their Services Portfolio For Free