The Latest Vicious Hacking Trend & How Businesses Can Fight Back
If you have read all the big security incidents and massive data leak report of last few months, you may have observed a notorious attack pattern -
- Hackers are targeting and attacking the large businesses
- They’re stealing the data
- Hackers are trading the stolen data on dark web and hackers’ forums
What’s happening?
- After Mobiwik, Facebook, Big Basket, the Domino India is the latest victim of the hackers
- According to the report, the hackers are aiming to sell the 13TB database for $550,000
- Sensitive information like customers’ names, email ids, phone numbers, payment details have got leaked
You need strong focus on Incident Response Management
Businesses who have been reported for data leaks are strongly focusing on ‘Incident Response and Investigation’.
Here’s the response from Domino India -
“Jubilant FoodWorks experienced an information security incident recently. No data pertaining to financial information of any person was accessed and the incident has not resulted in any operational or business impact.
As a policy, we do not store financial details or credit card data of our customers, thus, no such information has been compromised. Our team of experts is investigating the matter and we have taken necessary actions to contain the incident.”
But is it enough?
First and foremost, the hacks are inevitable.
And we all know that the big businesses with large database and sensitive information are more likely to be targeted and attacked.
But in the wake of such major data leaks, what organisations can do to bolster their security program?
Let us dive deep into hackers’ motivation and strategies to prepare a more robust security program.
Hackers’ nexus is stronger than ever
Bad news!
Cyber attackers are united and their attacks are more targeted, sophisticated, and motivated than ever.
Hackers are trying various tactics to invade and exfiltrate business-sensitive data.
If they can’t directly infiltrate the business, they’re attacking through third parties, vendors, and supply chain to cripple business.
All eye on external attack surface
71% of organisations do not have sufficient understanding of their attack surface.
Securing the IT assets alone is not enough now.
There’s so much sensitive information out there hat most businesses don’t even know they exists.
But hackers do and leverage that.
On top of that, most organisations also have no clue on which hackers’ forums, and dark web platform the hackers are sharing their sensitive information for further and bigger exploit including ransomware.
Organisations need to understand this challenge and must scan all these places to get a clear picture of their attack surface and leaked data.
What if you can see what hackers see about you?
Recognising this need and to fight against the latest vicious trend, Sumeru has developed Threat Meter, a robust attack surface monitoring tool.
When organisations don’t use an External Attack Surface Monitoring tool?
Hackers are using publicly available business data, identifying loophole to get sensitive customer data and sell them in dark web and hackers’ forums.
Business has zero insight on the hacker’s activities.
Scan the public internet, dark web and hackers’ forums to detect the leaked data and know what hackers know about you.
Sumeru’s Threat Meter is more than an external attack surface monitoring tool.
Rise above basic security hygiene
Along with external attack surface monitoring, make sure, you level-up your security posture with
- Red Team Testing to simulate real world attacks and test your security resilience
- Threat Hunting to detect threats in your existing network
- Focus on getting quality security advisory to build a solid security program, understand the trends, and evolving threat landscape
For over 20 years, we at Sumeru are helping businesses to fight the forever war of security with powerful and all-round security solutions.
Reach out at hello@sumerusolutions.com to know more.
