Cybersecurity Threats and Clone Traps

Responding to cybersecurity threats means a company must be five steps ahead of the hackers. Clone traps, a vanguard in deception technology, automate threat response by deceiving the deceivers and fighting AI with AI.

By the end of 2024, there were 240,830 live cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE). These are only the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities, and there may be many more. In the first half of 2024, new common CVE identification represented a 30% increase, potentially leaving doors wide open for cybercriminal exploitation. The advent of AI technologies is only adding to this list, with cybercriminals using Generative AI to empower their attack chains. As a result of security gaps and advanced attacks, a staggering 95% of bot attacks go undetected. There is also a 19% increase in manual/human attacks; manual attacks are often complicated and multi-part, making detection challenging.

The Role of Clone Traps in Cybersecurity

Organizations around the world stand at a precipice. Dealing with this unparalleled complex cyber-attack level has led to an intelligence gap. As such, the tsunami of zero-day and complex exploits requires a sophisticated approach. Here, we look at how a vanguard in AI-powered deception technology, clone traps, will help firms of all sizes persistently protect and strengthen their systems and reduce the risk of a successful cyber-attack.

What are Clone Traps?

A new security kid is on the block: Clone traps are next-gen honeypots that are about to turn the table on cybercriminals. This is less a new type of honeypot, and more a quantum leap in deception technology to catch even the most persistent and evasive attackers. Clone traps are deeply integrated with a firewall and provide AI-driven intelligence to super-target protection, fighting AI with AI.

Unification of Data, AI, and Firewall Integration

The continuous innovation in cyberattack methods requires a similar innovative approach to detection and prevention. The central pivot upon which the digital world turns is data. Therefore, the next generation of deception technologies must be able to optimize the use of data. This is precisely what clone traps do.

How Clone Traps Work

Clone traps serve as the entry gates for valuable data, creating up-to-date feeds of malicious attack sources, strange URL patterns, abnormal frequency request signatures, client geo triggers, and behavioral changes in a system. All this information is delivered to the core cybersecurity platform, which matches the data from honeypots with the usual requests and intelligence from over 100 sources: open source data, proprietary sources such as known attacker databases, and even the darknet, which can provide vital attack intelligence.

Handling Revealed Clone Traps

No one should be able to figure out the trap; however, clone traps must be discoverable, as an undetectable honeypot may lead to hackers finding out that it's a trap. On the contrary, they invite the hacker in. Of course, clone traps have to be close to reality and sufficiently complex, so that the whole concept works by providing information about the hacker's techniques, rather than just distracting them.

Empowering Detection and Response

Clone traps are a result of ongoing research and development. Cybersecurity scientists use their deep knowledge of the threat surface to mimic hackers and understand their deviant tactics. This threat intelligence has allowed researchers to create clone traps perfectly designed to entrap their hacker prey and extract their tactics. By using a mix of AI and human experience, clone traps can stop the most persistent and complex cyber-attacks and stay five steps ahead of cybercriminals.