Inside Black Basta: Uncovering the Secrets of a Ransomware Powerhouse

April 08, 2025 | Serhii Melnyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi

In February 2025, the cybersecurity community witnessed an unprecedented leak ...

Threat Intelligence News from LevelBlue SpiderLabs April 2025

April 01, 2025

April 2025

Babuk2 Bjorka: The Evolution of Ransomware for ‘Data Commoditization’

April 01, 2025 | John Basmayor

An investigation that started with a tip from one of our threat intel sources ...

2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Healthcare Sector: Key Risks and Defensive Measures

March 26, 2025

Rising Cyber Threats in Healthcare – Discover the latest cybersecurity risks ...

Trustwave SpiderLabs Threat Review: Alleged Oracle Compromise

March 25, 2025 | Nikita Kazymirskyi and Karl Sigler

On March 20, a relatively unknown user on Breach Forums posted the allegation ...

Why Principle of Least Privilege Matters More Than Ever in a World of Backdoored Large Language Models (LLMs)

March 24, 2025 | Tom Neaves

The concept of “principle of least privilege” has been around for a long time. ...

Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 2

March 20, 2025 | Karl Biron

In Part 1 of Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your ...

Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 1

March 19, 2025 | Karl Biron

Picture this: an always-awake, never-tired, high-speed librarian that instantly ...

DNSForge – Relaying with Force

March 12, 2025 | Apurva Goenka

Introducing a new attack mode for greater flexibility and customization.

Resurgence of a Fake Captcha Malware Campaign

March 12, 2025 | Reegun Jayapaul

During an Advanced Continual Threat Hunt (ACTH) investigation in early February ...

The Russia-Ukraine Cyber War Part 4: Development in Group Attributions for Russian State Actors

March 07, 2025 | Pawel Knapczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi

This is the final installment of Trustwave SpiderLabs Russia-Ukraine digital ...

A Deep Dive into Strela Stealer and how it Targets European Countries

March 06, 2025 | Dawid Nesterowicz

Infostealers have dominated the malware landscape due to the ease of threat ...

The Russia-Ukraine Cyber War Part 3: Attacks on Telecom and Critical Infrastructure

March 05, 2025 | Pawel Knapczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi

This post is the third part of our blog series that tackles the Russia-Ukraine ...

Threat Intelligence News from LevelBlue SpiderLabs March 2025

March 01, 2025

March 2025

2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Top Cyber Threats Targeting the Manufacturing Sector

February 26, 2025

2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report Unveils Top Cyber Threats to Manufacturing: ...

The Russia-Ukraine Cyber War Part 2: Attacks Against Government Entities, Defense Sector, and Human Targets

February 25, 2025 | Pawel Knapczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi

In the first part of Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Russia-Ukraine war blog series, we ...

We’re All in This Together: The Case for Purple Teaming

February 21, 2025 | Aidan Barrington

Why should you consider a purple team? What can you gain from it, and how do ...

The Russia-Ukraine Cyber War Part 1: Three Years of Cyber Warfare

February 20, 2025 | Pawel Knapczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi

As the third anniversary of the start of the Russia-Ukraine war approaches, ...

The Rise of Email Marketing Platforms for Business Email Compromise Attacks

February 18, 2025 | Maria Katrina Udquin

In a statistical report published in September 2024 by the Federal Bureau of ...

Parsing ESXi Logs for Incident Response with QELP

February 10, 2025 | Phalgun Kulkarni

Threat actors frequently target ESXi servers to disrupt business environments ...

Beyond the Chatbot: Meta Phishing with Fake Live Support

February 04, 2025 | Mike Casayuran and John Kevin Adriano

In a previous Trustwave SpiderLabs’ blog, we explored how cybercriminals ...

Threat Intelligence News from LevelBlue SpiderLabs February 2025

February 01, 2025

February 2025

Cracking the Giant: How ODAT Challenges Oracle, the King of Databases

January 27, 2025 | Karl Biron

In the past decade, Oracle Database (Oracle DB) has reigned supreme in the ...

Trustwave SpiderLabs 2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Energy and Utilities Sector

January 22, 2025

The energy sector plays a crucial role in national security by ensuring the ...

The New Face of Ransomware: Key Players and Emerging Tactics of 2024

January 21, 2025 | Serhii Melnyk

As we step into 2025, the high-impact, financially motivated ransomware ...

CVE-2024-55591: Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy Zero Day

January 14, 2025

In late November and December 2024, Arctic Wolf observed evidence of a mass ...

The Database Slayer: Deep Dive and Simulation of the Xbash Malware

January 14, 2025 | Karl Biron

In the world of malware, common ransomware schemes aim to take the data within ...

The State of Magecart: A Persistent Threat to E-Commerce Security

January 09, 2025 | Rodel Mendrez

Trustwave SpiderLabs first blogged about Magecart back in 2019; fast forward ...