Sophos X-Ops Archives - United Imaging

Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 2)

by unitedimaging on May 15, 2025

In the second of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops investigates the so-called ‘white’ (legitimate) business interests of threat actors Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 1)

by unitedimaging on May 15, 2025

Sophos X-Ops investigates what financially motivated threat actors invest their ill-gotten profits in, once the dust has settled Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 4)

by unitedimaging on May 15, 2025

In the fourth of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops explores threat actors’ real-world criminal business interests Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Beyond the kill chain: What cybercriminals do with their money (Part 3)

by unitedimaging on May 15, 2025

In the third of our five-part series, Sophos X-Ops explores the more legally and ethically dubious business interests of financially motivated threat actors Contact us today for more information about […]

PJobRAT makes a comeback, takes another crack at chat apps

by unitedimaging on March 27, 2025

Sophos X-Ops uncovers a recent campaign from an Android RAT first seen in 2019 – now infecting users in Taiwan Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security […]

The sixth sense for cyber defense: Multimodal AI

by unitedimaging on March 19, 2025

Sophos X-Ops’ research, presented at Virus Bulletin 2024, uses ‘multimodal’ AI to classify spam, phishing, and unsafe web content Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Update: Cybercriminals still not fully on board the AI train (yet)

by unitedimaging on January 28, 2025

A year after our initial research on threat actors’ attitudes to generative AI, we revisit some underground forums and find that many cybercriminals are still skeptical – although there has […]

Prioritizing patching: A deep dive into frameworks and tools – Part 2: Alternative frameworks

by unitedimaging on December 30, 2024

In the second of a two-part series on tools and frameworks designed to help with remediation prioritization, we explore some alternatives to CVSS Contact us today for more information about […]

Prioritizing patching: A deep dive into frameworks and tools – Part 1: CVSS

by unitedimaging on December 27, 2024

In the first of a two-part series exploring tools and frameworks which can help organizations with remediation prioritization, Sophos X-Ops takes a look at the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) […]

Year in Review 2024: The major headlines and moments from Sophos this year

by unitedimaging on December 17, 2024

From cyber attacks across the geopolitical landscapes, to product updates that help small businesses, Sophos was there in 2024. Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Keeping it real: Sophos and the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations: Enterprise

by unitedimaging on December 11, 2024

Sophos X-Ops looks at the realism of this year’s MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Pacific Rim: What’s it to you?

by unitedimaging on October 31, 2024

Thirty-five years after the first great cat-and-mouse infosecurity story, here we are again Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Digital Detritus: The engine of Pacific Rim and a call to the industry for action

by unitedimaging on October 31, 2024

Decades of obsolete and unpatched hardware and software endanger us all Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

Pacific Rim: Learning to eat soup with a knife

by unitedimaging on October 31, 2024

What our incident responders know from five years of fighting an octopus Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

From the frontlines: Our CISO’s view of Pacific Rim

by unitedimaging on October 31, 2024

On beyond “Detect and Respond” and “Secure by Design” Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions

From QR to compromise: The growing “quishing” threat

by unitedimaging on October 16, 2024

Attackers leverage QR codes in PDF email attachments to spearphish corporate credentials from mobile devices Contact us today for more information about SOPHOS cyber security solutions