Santa’s Data Breach: network control and restricting uploads of data online
The 12 breaches of Christmas: 3 and 4
To: Santa@sclaus.comFrom: SSO@sclaus.comDate: 2/12/2021Subject: Security Alert from Santa Sec Ops (SSO) – Data Breach StoppedDear Santa,From our continued monitoring of the SecurEnvoy SecureIdentity DLP solution we have been alerted to two more attempted breaches by one of your elves, once again though the data breaches were stopped.First of all we can see that he attempted to email the naughty_and_nice list to a Gmail email account using outlook
We can see that as the list is classified as Internal and our rules don’t allow an internally classified document to be sent to an outside organisation that the attempt to do so was blocked.As he was blocked in his attempt to send the list out to his personal Gmail account he then tried to use a well known file sharing website called WeTransfer in his next attempt to steal your list and this was also blocked so we are protecting your naughty_nice_list from all of the attempts to exfiltrate it Santa.
We can see that WeTransfer hosts its services based in AWS but where it is doesn’t matter as your DLP solution has fingerprinted your sensitive data and will trigger no matter where the bad elf tries to move it to, we got your back SantaWe will continue to investigate any further breaches in the north pole Santa Sec Op’s NOC.Regards,Head Cyber Security ElfWho hides in the bakery at Christmas?A Mince Spy!Published: 30 November 2021
Category: Industry News
Ben Norcutt, Pre-Sales Consultant
Cloud specialist with a focus on data protection, a maker and creator of cools things and his superpower is he can breathe underwater. OK, not quite but when Ben’s not talking all things cloud and data, he is exploring the underwater world as an avid scuba diver and loves to talk cyber or diving.
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