Photon Research Team
Photon is Digital Shadows’ external facing security research team, comprised of security researchers, security practitioners and intelligence analysts. Photon is dedicated to researching trends in the threats organizations face from cyber criminals and accidental data exposure.
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2:55Watch VideoDigital Shadows Photon Research Team
Photon is Digital Shadows’ external facing security research team, comprised of security researchers, security practitioners and intelligence analysts. Photon is dedicated to researching trends in the
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Read PostFBI IC3: Cybercrime Surges in 2018, Causing $2.7 Billion in Losses
This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its 2018 Internet Crime Complaints Center (IC3). In 2018, the IC3 responded ...
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Read PostPredator: Modeling the attacker’s mindset
Author: Richard Gold The phrases “attacker’s mindset” or “think like an attacker” are often used in cyber security to encourage ...
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Read PostDark Web Typosquatting: Scammers v. Tor
Time and time again, we see how the cybercriminal ecosystem often mirrors what happens in the business world. This can ...
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Read ReportA Tale of Epic Extortions - How Cybercriminals Monetize Our Online Exposure
Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team has found that cybercriminals have diversified their extortion methods, and the threat landscape is as wide and varied as it’s ever been.
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Read PostEasing into the extortion game
One of the main ideas which flowed through Photon’s most recent research report, A Tale of Epic Extortions, was that cyber ...
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Read PostCyber Risks and High-frequency Trading: Conversation with an Insider
Research from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published this week focused the attention on how financial systems around the ...
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Read PostEpisode 59: Practitioner’s Guide to Email Spoofing
Senior security engineer, Simon Hall joins Rafael Amado to explain how IT teams and defenders can combat email spoofing, one of the most popular techniques used by phishers. Simon discusses why...
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44:53Watch VideoHow to Reduce Your Extortion Risks: Avoiding the Shakedown
In this webinar we will cover recent sextortion tactics, thedarkoverlord, and SamSam Group campaigns to demonstrate how the barriers to entry for extortionists are decreasing, and how businesses can r
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Read PostPurple Teaming with Vectr, Cobalt Strike, and MITRE ATT&CK™
Authors: Simon Hall, Isidoros Monogioudis Here at Digital Shadows we perform regular purple team exercises to continually challenge and ...
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Read PostSamSam But Different: MITRE ATT&CK and the SamSam Group Indictment
In our latest research report, A Tale of Epic Extortions, the Digital Shadows Photon Research Team highlight how cybercriminals abuse our ...
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Read PostExtortion Exposed: Sextortion, thedarkoverlord, and SamSam
In our most recent research, A Tale of Epic Extortions, the Digital Shadows Photon Research Team approached the topic of ...
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Read PostPhoton Research Team Shines Light On Digital Risks
I’m very excited to announce the launch of the Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team. We have decided to bolster our ...
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Read ReportSamSam and Mitre ATT&CK
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Read PostSecurity Practitioner’s Guide to Email Spoofing and Risk Reduction
In our previous extended blog, Tackling Phishing: The Most Popular Phishing Techniques and What You Can Do About It, we ...
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Read PostWeekly Intelligence Summary: Ep 9
In this week’s episode, the team looks at Fin6, who has begun regularly targeting card-not-present data on e-commerce websites. Other highlights from this week include Topps disclosing a data...
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Read PostSANS DFIR Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit 2019 – Extracting More Value from Your CTI Program
We were fortunate to attend the 2019 SANS DFIR Cyber Threat Intelligence Summit this year, which brings together some of ...
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Read ReportCybercriminals on the Outlook for Your Emails
In this research, Digital Shadows outlines the declining barriers to entry for this type of fraud. Check out our key findings.
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50:49Watch VideoFBI Cyber Squad: Surging Cyber Threats to Watch in 2019 - Recorded Webinar
Hear firsthand from FBI Cyber Squad Supervisory Special Agent, Elvis Chan on the cyber threats that you’re most likely to encounter in 2019. You’ll also hear from Harrison Van Riper on cyber threat tr
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Read PostTV License and Vehicle Tax Fraud: New Year, Same Old Scams
Over the last week we’ve been tracking several emails impersonating UK services such as “TV Licensing” and “Vehicle Road Tax”. ...
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