RIBridges’ firewall worked, but hundreds of alerts went unnoticed or ignored.
Footnotes in CrowdStrike’s forensics report offer troubling details of Deloitte’s handling of incident logs. Rhode Island Current reports that the attack on RIBridges triggered hundreds of firewall alerts during the five months that attackers were in the network and were transferring gigabytes of data. But the state’s vendor, Deloitte, did not know the system had […]

Defending Against UNC3944/Scattered Spider: Cybercrime Hardening Guidance from the Frontlines – Mandiant
Background UNC3944, which overlaps with public reporting on Scattered Spider, is a financially-motivated threat actor characterized by its persistent use of social engineering and brazen communications with victims. In early operations, UNC3944 largely targeted telecommunications-related organizations to support SIM swap operations. However, after shifting to ransomware and data theft extortion in early 2023, they impacted […]