Russian Threat Group Targets Clinton Campaign

Governments like to know what the leaders of rival countries are really thinking. To answer these questions, they may turn to their spy agencies, tasking them with obtaining information on policy and strategy that other countries would rather keep secret.…

Best Practices for Confidence in the Cloud

Until recently, most cloud migration decisions were made without the benefit of the CISO's guidance. In an effort to take advantage of cloud efficiencies, line-of-business users have moved critical assets and confidential data to the cloud without an understanding of…

Malware Lingers with BITS

Threat actors leveraged a “notification” feature in the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to download malware. In May 2016, the SecureWorks® Incident Response (IR) Team conducted an engagement involving a malware compromise. Antivirus software had previously detected and remediated…