Category: Security

Data from the “IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index” for 2018 illustrated that threat actors have been increasingly using malicious cryptomining, aka cryptojacking attacks, to easily monetize their access to systems with minimal risk. The 2019 report showed that threat actors continue to use these attacks to compromise systems and generate…

The European Union (EU)’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is about to celebrate its first birthday, and similar regulations scheduled to go into effect early in 2020 — such as Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) — will press organizations to…

Cybersecurity experts are working longer hours and tackling more complex challenges as threat landscapes continue to evolve. Survey data from Farsight Security found that more than half of security professionals work weekends and nearly 30 percent work 10 or more hours a day. But companies still face a jobs shortfall:…

co-authored by Nadav Katzenell, Head of Machine Learning, Data & Research, IBM Trusteer This article explores how an aggressive and elusive remote overlay PC malware that is attacking Latin American banks met its match in a solution built from behavioral biometrics, deep research, reverse engineering and finely tuned threat modeling.…