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FireCompass Secures USPTO Patent for Automated Red Teaming

FireCompass Secures USPTO Patent for Automated Red Teaming

FireCompass has recently secured a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for their innovative approach to Automated Red Teaming in Organizational Networks. This milestone is set to reshape the landscape of cybersecurity, particularly in the realms of Automated Pen testing and Red Teaming. The minds behind this revolutionary technology are Arnab… Read More »FireCompass Secures USPTO Patent for Automated Red Teaming

Ransomware Case Study, Negotiating with Hackers: Unconventional Tactics

Ransomware Case Study, Negotiating with Hackers: Unconventional Tactics

In a recent panel discussion on the “Ransomware Case Study,” cybersecurity expert Bikash Barai shared compelling insights into his advisory experience, shedding light on his active involvement in negotiating ransomware with hackers and threat actors. This discussion, featuring Bikash Barai (Co-Founder, FireCompass), Kinshuk De (Head Incident Response, TCS), Venkat Ramshet (Founder, Flexible IR) and Ashwani Paliwal (Founder, SecOps),… Read More »Ransomware Case Study, Negotiating with Hackers: Unconventional Tactics

Ransomware Blog 2023 Firecompass

Achieve 26% Ransomware Risk Reduction By Fixing These CVEs

As per Threat Intel data published by IBM Xforce, 80% of the times, Ransomeware gets initial access using top 3 Attack Vectors – exploiting vulnerabilities contribute 26%, Shadow IT & Stolen Credentials contribute 16%, various variants of phishing attacks contribute 41%, and the rest by other attack vectors. It means that Shadow IT Discovery, identifying… Read More »Achieve 26% Ransomware Risk Reduction By Fixing These CVEs

How to Prepare Against Increasing Ransomware Attacks on RDP

Ransomware Attacks are increasing globally. The attacks are more targeted and hackers are using modern and sophisticated techniques to achieve their goals. Organizations must have a clear view to their attack surface and an in-depth understanding of adversary behaviour, regularly validate  susceptibility of organisations systems against attacks, while testing  efficacy of the defensive controls. One… Read More »How to Prepare Against Increasing Ransomware Attacks on RDP

Kaseya Ransomware Blogpost

Kaseya VSA Ransomware Attack 2021

REvil ransomware conducted a massive attack through the Kaseya VSA patch and remote management software that encrypted MSPs worldwide and their customers. The zero-day Kaseya vulnerability was discovered by DIVD researcher Wietse Boonstra and was assigned the CVE-2021-30116 identifier. Kaseya states that REvil used the Zero-day vulnerability in their on-premise VSA service to conduct the… Read More »Kaseya VSA Ransomware Attack 2021