QR codes used to be harmless, now they’re one of the sneakiest ways attackers slip past defenses. Quishing, or QR code phishing, hides malicious links inside innocent-looking images that filters can’t read.  One scan, and the victim lands on a fake login page designed to steal credentials or trigger a download; often from a mobile device completely outside your SOC’s visibility.  […] The post SOCs Have a Quishing Problem: Here’s How to Solve It  appeared first on Cyber Security News.

When your alert queue seems endless, it might feel like threat intelligence is more of a curse than a blessing. But taking the right approach to it will help increase detection rates without stretching resources thin. Top-performing SOC analysts don’t necessarily go through more alerts than others; they simply know where to look for reliable […] The post How SOCs Detect More Threats without Alert Overload appeared first on Cyber Security News.

There’s a moment, right after a new alert hits, when the room holds its breath. Everyone waits for context; is it real, is it noise, is it already too late?  In those seconds, the difference between an average SOC and a great one is obvious. Some scramble for answers; others move in sync, sharing context […] The post 5 Must-Follow Rules of Every Elite SOC: CISO’s Checklist appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Phishing campaigns are getting harder to spot, sometimes hiding in files you’d never suspect. ANY.RUN’s cybersecurity analysts recently uncovered one such case: a malicious SVG disguised as a PDF, hosted on a legitimate domain and packed with hidden redirects. By mid-September, it scaled into a full spam wave with Microsoft-themed lures. Let’s look at how […] The post Malicious SVGs in Phishing Campaigns: How to Detect Hidden Redirects and Payloads appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Alex sighed at his third energy drink of the night shift, watching another batch of security alerts flood his SIEM dashboard. As a Level 2 threat analyst at a mid-sized financial firm, he was drowning in false positives and spending precious hours manually investigating each suspicious hash, IP address, and domain.   Then everything changed during […] The post Want to Validate Alerts Faster? Use Free Threat Intel from 15K SOCs  appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Cyber attackers constantly refine their evasion methods. That’s what makes threats, including phishing, increasingly hard to detect and investigate. Kits like Tycoon 2FA regularly evolve with new tricks added to their arsenal. They slip past defenses and compromise companies, demonstrating great adaptivity in modern cyber threats.  Let’s review three key evasion techniques of Tycoon 2FA […] The post PhishKit Evasion Tactics: What You Need to Pay Attention to Right Now  appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Every SOC analyst knows the frustration. Your SIEM generates hundreds, sometimes thousands of alerts daily. Each alert demands attention, but with limited time and resources, how do you prioritize effectively? Investigating each alert in isolation leaves teams reactive, overwhelmed, and ultimately vulnerable to sophisticated attacks that blend into the background noise.  The Alert Triage Dilemma: […] The post How to Enrich Alerts with Live Attack Data From 15K SOCs  appeared first on Cyber Security News.