Cyber Security

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Malware Spotlight

June Malware Spotlight

Malware: BellaCiao  BellaCiao, an allusion to an old Italian resistance song, is the newest malware out of Charming Kitten/APT 35, an Iranian state-backed advanced persistent threat. According to The Ha...

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Risk Management

Who is Turla, What Just Happened, and Why Does it Matter for Your Company?

Background  Last month, the FBI infiltrated and neutralized the notorious Snake malware used heavily by Turla group. Turla is a hacking group that is part of the Russian domestic intelligence service, w...

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Risk Management

The Cyber Insurance Labyrinth

Businesses and their boards are increasingly doubting the validity of cyber insurance and for good reason. The cyber insurance marketplace has become increasingly confusing, exclusionary, and expensive. The ...

May Newsletter
Monthly Newsletter

Consortium Networks Monthly Newsletter: May

May is a very exciting month here at Consortium Networks with a slew of birthdays and our new class of interns joining the team throughout the month. To kick off the month, this newsletter covers a wide array o...

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Risk Management

Sifting Through the Hype: Insider Threat, ChatGPT and Cybersecurity

This is the second iteration of a Consortium Networks assessment on the risks posed by ChatGPT. Our first assessment can be found here and discusses the platform’s ability to write malicious code. This as...

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Policy Explainer

Companies Face New SEC Regulations 

Many companies are now grappling with the imminent enforcement of the new SEC regulations. According to Davis Polk, this affects specifically “market entities” including “many types of broker-dealers, clearing ...

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Primers

Ransomware: A Primer

There have been discussions about whether or not ransomware activity is on the decline, including by our own experts here at Consortium Networks, spurred by geopolitical activity and law enforcement actions, th...

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Hearing Report

Hearing Report: Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities to the United States’ Energy Infrastructure Hearing Report

March 23, 2023 Full Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Hearing to Examine Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities to the U.S. Energy Infrastructure Witnesses: Mr. Puesh M. Kumar: Director, Office ...

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Monthly Newsletter

Consortium Networks Monthly Newsletter: April

The Cherry Blossoms of DC have come and gone and, somehow, so has the month of March. The month kicked off with the much-anticipated National Cyber Strategy, spurring a flurry of activity in the cyber world. In...

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News & Events

The Vulkan Files

At the tail-end of March, Mandiant released a report detailing a number of leaked contracts from Vulkan, an IT contracting firm in Moscow. The contracts outline project requirements for engagements between Vulk...