Author: Anthony Lim

At IBM X-Force, we keep our customers on the cutting edge of cybersecurity experiences, centered around incident response, and these include responding in cloud native environments. What is cloud native? It is a concept that grew out of the astonishing and rapid transition to cloud computing and is a fundamental…

This is the fifth in a five-part blog series on managed detection and response (MDR) as it drives strategic security outcomes for businesses. Now that you’ve reached part five of this series, you’ve seen how MDR services help organizations. They can help achieve their goals through the context of four…

In the early days of the pandemic, many retailers quickly launched e-commerce stores for the first time. Others expanded their offerings, such as adding online ordering with curbside pick-up. Within only a few months, the pandemic accelerated the shift to e-commerce stores by five years. This points to the need for…

IBM X-Force threat intelligence has been observing a rise in Dridex-related network attacks that are being driven by the Cutwail botnet. Dridex is delivered as a second-stage infector after an initial document or spreadsheet arrives via email with booby-trapped macros. Recipients who activate the macros unknowingly launch malicious PowerShell scripts…