Secureworks stories

GOLD MELODY acts as initial access broker, says Secureworks report
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Secureworks identifies GOLD MELODY as a cyber group that sells compromised network access to other criminals

Secureworks identifies malicious Qakbot ransomware campaign
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Secureworks' Counter Threat Unit researchers have long maintained active monitoring of the botnet and detected the disruption activity on August 25.

Secureworks and Akamai partner to secure modern systems
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The alliance between the companies will aim to empower security operations teams to scale secure access in a hybrid working era.

Email defence methods increasingly falling short - report
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According to the Secureworks Incident Response report, the number of incidents involving business email compromise doubled between January and December 2022.

Ransomware down 57%, Secureworks warns against complacency
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Secureworks has cautioned against complacency despite a 57% decline in ransomware incident response engagements in 2022.

Supportive security culture essential for breach prevention
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Improving the security culture within organisations plays a critical role in mitigating some breaches and bolster disaster recovery efforts.

Secureworks announces 220% increase in customers using Dell's MDR
Fri, 9th Jun 2023
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Notable growth was seen especially within local government, education and healthcare, with customers ranging from 50 or more employees to large multi-nationals.

Secureworks partners SentinelOne to enhance threat detection
Thu, 8th Jun 2023
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Then new Secureworks Taegis integration for SentinelOne Singularity Complete provides enhanced XDR threat prevention, detection and response.

Secureworks unveils an integrated MDR solution for OT and IT
Sat, 3rd Jun 2023
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Organisations will gain security resilience with unified detection and response for OT and IT with the company’s MDR solution powered by Secureworks Taegis XDR.

Secureworks reveals 'thriving' infostealer market enabling cyber crime
Thu, 18th May 2023
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The Secureworks Counter Threat Unit has revealed a thriving infostealer market that serves as a key enabler for the most damaging forms of cyber crime.

Secureworks has discovered malware in online advertising
Fri, 21st Apr 2023
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Secureworks has found that Bumblebee malware is being spread through malicious online advertising, such as Google ads.

Video: 10 Minute IT Jams - An update from Secureworks
Wed, 19th Apr 2023
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Alex Tilley, who is the Head of Threat Intelligence for APJ at Secureworks, joins us today to tell us more about Secureworks and what its solutions are for the security threats of today.

Secureworks launches its Taegis security posture dashboard
Thu, 23rd Mar 2023
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Secureworks reduce cyber risk and bolster cyber resiliency with the new dashboard, which companies can use to evaluate and strengthen their security posture.

Business email compromise doubled in 2022: Secureworks
Mon, 20th Mar 2023
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Analysis of over 500 incidents that Secureworks responded to in 2022 found companies need to make themselves a more challenging target.

BEC overtakes ransomware as cyber crime of choice
Mon, 20th Mar 2023
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The number of incidents involving business email compromise has doubled, replacing ransomware as the most common type of financially motivated cyber threat.

Ransomware down 57% but other threats looming, warns report
Fri, 17th Mar 2023
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The Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has found that most real-world security incidents start with much smaller organisational issues.

Iranian state-sponsored threat group impersonates US Think Tank
Fri, 10th Mar 2023
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The targets in this instance were all women who are actively involved in political affairs and human rights in the Middle East region.

Secureworks finds Iranian threat group back with new persona
Wed, 1st Feb 2023
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Secureworks has found that the Iranian threat group, Cobalt Sapling, has reemerged with a new persona, Abraham's Ax.

Iran-sponsored group using GitHub to deploy custom malware
Tue, 13th Dec 2022
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The Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has uncovered a subgroup of Iranian Cobalt Mirage using GitHub to store and deploy malware.

Secureworks CTU identifies increase in stolen credential sales
Mon, 5th Dec 2022
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Reports have revealed that infostealer malware responsible for harvesting corporate data is becoming a growing threat to enterprises and an ideal tool for cybercriminals.

Secureworks introduces XDR platform as ransomware escalates
Wed, 12th Oct 2022
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According to IPA, Japanese companies rank the damage caused by ransomware and advanced persistent threats as their top two biggest information security concerns

52% of ransomware incidents started with compromise of unpatched remote services
Thu, 6th Oct 2022
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The exploitation in remote services has become the primary initial access vector in ransomware attacks over the past year.

The growing threat of CEO fraud and how to mitigate it
Tue, 4th Oct 2022
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By posing as the CEO or other senior figures, attackers guarantee that malicious emails get employees' attention. Many employees are reluctant to question a request from their CEO, so they usually provide the information.

Microsoft not addressing authentication flaw in Azure AD
Wed, 14th Sep 2022
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Secureworks has published new research that identifies a proof-of-concept exploit of flaws found in Microsoft's Azure AD PTA method, which it says the tech giant is not planning to address.