Cybersecurity

The following posts are useful for general awareness of current cyber threats, vulnerabilities, guidance, and other cyber-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Critical Infrastructure

Since at least November 2023, a new malware called Latrodectus has been distributed in various phishing campaigns. The malware exhibits evasion functionality making it difficult to detect and shows qualities similar to the IcedID malware which threat actors used as an initial access broker (IAB) to sell unauthorized access to other threat actors facilitating further exploitation.

The following posts are useful for general awareness of current cyber threats, vulnerabilities, guidance, and other cyber-related news or updates. These resources have been curated by the WaterISAC analyst team as items of broad relevance and benefit that do not need supplemental analysis at this time.

Critical Infrastructure

Ransomware resilience is more than just having validated backups for restoring your systems after a ransomware attack, vulnerability management has a lot to do with it too – that could be patching or addressing through compensating controls if patching is not possible. While ransomware attacks have negative outcomes no matter the attack vector, Sophos explains that exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities has the greatest business impact.