{"id":1222020,"date":"2025-02-21T13:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1222020"},"modified":"2025-02-21T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:17:28","slug":"notorious-crooks-broke-into-a-company-network-in-48-minutes-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1222020","title":{"rendered":"Notorious crooks broke into a company network in 48 minutes. Here\u2019s how."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In December, roughly a dozen employees inside a manufacturing company received a tsunami of phishing messages that was so big they were unable to perform their day-to-day functions. A little over an hour later, the people behind the email flood had burrowed into the nether reaches of the company&#8217;s network. This is a story about how such intrusions are occurring faster than ever before and the tactics that make this speed possible.<\/p>\n<p>The speed and precision of the attack\u2014laid out in posts published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reliaquest.com\/blog\/blink-and-theyre-in-how-rapid-phishing-attacks-exploit-weaknesses\/\">Thursday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reliaquest.com\/blog\/racing-the-clock-outpacing-accelerating-attacks\/\">last month<\/a>\u2014are crucial elements for success. As awareness of ransomware attacks increases, security companies and their customers have grown ever savvier at detecting breach attempts and stopping them before they gain entry to sensitive data. To succeed, attackers have to move ever faster.<\/p>\n<h2>Breakneck breakout<\/h2>\n<p>ReliaQuest, the security firm that responded to this intrusion, said it tracked a 22-percent reduction in the \u201cbreakout time\u201d threat actors took in 2024 compared with a year earlier. In the attack at hand, the breakout time\u2014meaning the time span from the moment of initial access to lateral movement inside the network\u2014was just 48 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/02\/notorious-crooks-broke-into-a-company-network-in-48-minutes-heres-how\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2025\/02\/notorious-crooks-broke-into-a-company-network-in-48-minutes-heres-how\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, roughly a dozen employees inside a manufacturing company received a tsunami of phishing messages that was so big they were unable to perform their day-to-day functions. A little over an hour later, the people behind the email flood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1222020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}