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Profiling the FIN7 Threat Actor (Carbanak Group) for Better Detection

27-03-2025

This week's Tips & Tricks focuses on one of the most sophisticated and persistent cybercriminal groups, FIN7(also known as Carbanak Group), and how to defend against it.

Achieving SIEM Efficiency Through Proactive Validation

11-09-2024

Our latest whitepaper, "Maximising SIEM Efficiency through Proactive Validation" provides some valuable insight into the challenging nature of security event management. Managing and optimising SIEM solutions has become a significant challenge for many enterprises. Organisations often face complexities with high alert volumes, slow threat detection, and understaffed Security Operations Centres (SOCs). This comprehensive whitepaper explores how Proactive Validation transforms SIEM performance by continuously identifying detection gaps, improving accuracy, and offering real-time threat mitigation. This approach is designed to deliver better return on investment (ROI) for security teams and stakeholders, including CIOs, CISOs, and SOC managers, ensuring that your SIEM operates at maximum efficiency.

Cynode Becomes Proofpoint MSP Partner in the Nordics, Enhancing Detection and Response for Proofpoint Customers

04-12-2024

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Cynode, a leading managed service provider in the Nordic region, today announced its certification as a Proofpoint Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner. This strategic partnership empowers Cynode to deliver Proofpoint's advanced cyber security solutions to customers across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, whilst also optimising existing Proofpoint implementations.

Understanding Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs): Advantages Over Traditional Service Accounts

21-01-2025

Nearly all breaches in the last decade were preventable. While intrusions, defence evasions, and human error can occur, good cybersecurity practices can stop threat actors from progressing along the kill chain before achieving their goals. We've been sharing best practices through Tips & Tricks LinkedIn posts to help our followers build cyber-resilient networks. Our VP of Product, Cumhur Hatipoglu, has written a new blog diving deeper into Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs)—one of our recent Tips & Tricks topics. This Microsoft feature provides enhanced protection against attack techniques including credential theft, dumping, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. Your detection and response teams and service providers should focus on handling sophisticated attacks that bypass internal defences—not the preventable ones.