TL;DR The time between vulnerability disclosure and active exploitation is shrinking. In episode 372 of The 443 Security Simplified, WatchGuard’s Marc Laliberte and Adam Winston discuss why the traditional patch window is becoming harder for defenders to rely on. The episode also examines a recent…
WatchGuard telemetry identified a campaign associated to Grandoreiro that uses the DLL Side-Loading technique abusing four different softwares, targeting banks in Portugal. Also, it was identified cases of a known campaign that uses a malicious VBS to deliver the malware, targeting companies in…
Long weekends are good for people. They're also useful for attackers. That's not fearmongering. It's an operational reality. Threat actors understand how businesses work. They know when staffing is lighter, when response times may be slower, and when IT and security teams are more likely to be…
I remember my first real dev setup. A beige tower, a copy of Turbo C++, and a dial-up connection that screamed like a fax machine having an existential crisis. The workstation was an island. What lived on it stayed on it. The biggest security risk was a floppy disk from a friend, and even then, you…
Cybercrime no longer stays neatly contained behind a screen. In Episode 369 of The 443 Podcast, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner unpack three recent threat stories that show how digital compromise can ripple outward into software supply chains, ransomware recovery, and even stolen freight…
For many small and midsize businesses across Latin America, cybersecurity is no longer a future concern. It is a present operational risk. Episode 368 of The 443: Security Simplified features WatchGuard’s Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner in conversation with Paul Harris, CEO of BGLA and Futurity…
A newly disclosed Windows zero-day, dubbed RedSun, is the latest reminder that attackers do not need to break in if they can simply escalate. Discussed in Episode 367 of The 443 podcast, this vulnerability highlights how trusted system processes can be manipulated to gain full system-level access…
WatchGuard telemetry identified two different phishing campaigns targeting Greek, Spanish, Slovenian, Bosnian and Latin and Central American companies, that use different techniques to delivery FormBook malware. FormBook is a data-stealing malware that targets Windows systems, primarily distributed…
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a productivity multiplier. It is becoming a force multiplier for cybersecurity, and potentially for cyber risk. In Episode 366 of The 443, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner discuss three developments that together paint a clear picture of where the…
When a high-profile code leak hits the internet, the first reaction is usually fascination. Developers want to inspect it. Researchers want to understand how it works. Security teams want to know whether the exposure creates downstream risk. But threat actors often move faster than all three. That…