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PRE-ATT&CK Techniques: The Key to Preventing Cyber Attacks
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Cyber attackers are now targeting any kind of information that can reward them: from personal data to corporate information to government secrets. However, behind each attack, there is a long chain of thoroughly selected actions.
While most organizations focus their attention on protecting the perimeter of their corporate network, the cybersecurity experts from MITRE advise expanding their ability to understand the behavior of adversaries.
Hackers select their victims long before their attack and carefully collect information about them before executing any malicious actions. Nowadays, the internet provides them with a great variety of data about almost any company, so adversaries can learn enough not only about a company’s activity but also about its cybersecurity weak spots.
To help security officers understand how hackers choose their victims and prevent an attack before it even begins, MITRE, a non-profit corporation that tackles cybersecurity problems, has created the PRE-ATT&CK matrix that is a part of the Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge, also known as the ATT&CK framework.
What is the PRE-ATT&CK matrix?
PRE-ATT&CK allows security officers to prevent a possible attack before an adversary penetrates into their network. The PRE-ATT&CK matrix contains 15 tactics and more than 150 techniques that explain the adversary planning, information gathering, reconnaissance, and setup when preparing their attack.
The tactics in PRE-ATT&CK explain the typical adversarial techniques and procedures for selecting a victim, obtaining information about it, and launching the cyber attack. This information provides security officers with a broader understanding of adversary behavior before any indicators of compromise appear.
PRE-ATT&CK allows security officers to find answers on the following questions:
- Are there any signs that cyber attackers are targeting your organization?
- What adversary techniques may an attacker apply to your company?
- How can you analyze the collected data to notice a hacker’s interest into your organisation?
Analyzing the PRE-ATT&CK techniques and tactics, defenders can get a better understanding of cyber attacker activities. They can use this knowledge to make appropriate decisions on what technical measures and mitigations to adopt in order to reduce hacker’s chances on properly preparing an attack on their organization.
How to use the PRE-ATT&CK matrix
The PRE-ATT&CK matrix provides detailed information about how adversaries prepare for arranging a cyber attack. The PRE-ATT&CK tactics explain what goals an aversary sets for themselves, while each technique shows how these goals can be achieved. The tactics in PRE ATT&CK reflect such attacker goals:
- Priority definition
- Victim selection
- Gathering information about a victim
- Victim weakness identification
- Persona development
- Capabilities setup
The PRE-ATT&CK techniques show how adversaries perform each tactic and allow enterprise defenders to track and organize attack statistics and patterns.
Priority definition
Using this tactic, an adversary weighs all the pros and cons of arranging an attack. They set their goals by considering how the information they are getting can benefit them and what kind of information has the biggest value for them. At this stage, cyber criminals compare the cost of cyber intrusions with the expected reward from their activity.
Victim selection
Taking into account their priorities, adversaries begin to look for their victims. They take their strategic considerations and then narrow them down tactically and operationally until a victim is selected. Depending on their target, adversaries can decide to attack it directly or through business partners. However, for making the right decision, hackers usually need to collect all possible information about their target.
Gathering information about the victim
After adversaries select their victim, they can’t blindly execute an attack. They first need to gather all information about their target: the type of technical system the victim uses, the personnel that works for the victim, and the victim organization itself.
Attackers usually collect information about their victims by using open-source intelligence tools and techniques. Such data about a victim as organization’s domains, email address format, names of top personnel can be freely found online by combining phishing and social engineering techniques.
While organizations can’t minimize their presence on the internet nowadays, security officers can consider how the public data of their company may be abused and define vectors of possible attacks.
Identifying victim weaknesses
By analyzing all the data collected at the previous stage, adversaries can find potential weaknesses of their victim. The discovered vulnerabilities become the basis of creating a plan of the attack. Weakness identification also allows adversaries to test and configure their own systems for attack execution.
At this stage, defenders can consider the Pyramid of Pain that will help them define the importance of indicators of compromise.
Persona development
Though the internet is a place where you can find everyone, it’s also a place where anyone can create a fake persona. A hacker can develop their persona by providing a fake email address and personal information to one of the social media sites. Getting in contact with a potential victim, an adversary can gain greater access to the victim’s personal profile with an intention to abuse this data later.
Unfortunately, most social media don’t inform their users whether someone viewed their profile. However, organizations can establish tight privacy control for their corporate accounts in social media by establishing trusted connections, blocking suspicious content, and educating their employees.
Capabilities setup
After getting in contact with potential victims, an adversary will establish capabilities for arranging an attack. Though some cyberc riminals may be really technology-savvy, most of them look for the easiest way to maintain their own internet infrastructure.
There are plenty of cost-effective ways to anonymously use servers, autonomous systems, and networks. Adversaries often abuse this anonymity for achieving their malicious goals. Paying just several dollars per month, they can get a virtual presence enough for compromising your organization.
Even if your logs detected adversarial activity from a specific server, it would be very difficult to legally pursue that source because of the lack of evidence. Though it may seem nearly impossible to detect an adversary at this stage of the cyber attack, security teams should pay attention to behavioral patterns that indicate hacker’s activity.
While PRE-ATT&CK describes only the adversarial behavior before an attack, MITRE has recently integrated some PRE-ATT&CK techniques into ATT&CK to let security teams define the potential vectors of attacks on their organizations and improve their security measures accordingly.
Enterprises that integrate PRE-ATT&CK into their security best practices can significantly enhance their protection measures and prevent adversaries long before they actually begin their malicious campaigns.
Conclusion
It’s not a secret that cyber attacks are now more targeted than any time before. Cyber criminals carefully select their next victim and conduct a thorough investigation before penetrating into your corporate network. Using the PRE-ATT&CK matrix from MITRE, security teams can reveal the early signs of adversarial behavior and prevent an attack before hackers compromise your organization.
This article is a contribution from Marcell Gogan. Marcell is a specialist within digital security solutions, business design and development, virtualization and cloud computing, R&D projects, establishment and management of software research direction – working with Ekran System. He also loves writing about data management and cybersecurity.
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PayRamnt-weight: 400;”> has launched its private stablecoin payment gateway for iGaming operators, gaming platforms, and affiliates that require fast, borderless, and censorship-resistant payments.
Built on the belief that payments should operate as freely as the internet itself, PayRam delivers decentralized PayFi infrastructure that allows iGaming businesses to accept and manage stablecoin payments through fully self-hosted infrastructure. Operators no longer rely on banks, custodians, or centralized processors to control their revenue.
In an industry plagued by frozen balances, chargebacks, delayed settlements, and compliance shutdowns, PayRam gives operators direct control over funds, payouts, and transaction infrastructure. Platforms retain ownership of their payment flow without platform risk. Operators can now accept private stablecoin deposits, launch without intermediaries, and expand globally on their own terms.
Stablecoins Are the Future of Global iGaming Payments
Stablecoins now drive the most significant transformation in payments in decades. With a market capitalization exceeding $300 billion, stablecoins now function as real-world settlement infrastructure rather than speculative assets. For iGaming businesses that operate across borders, stablecoins deliver instant payouts, low transaction costs, and continuous global liquidity.
Governments also continue to formalize regulatory frameworks. Initiatives such as the GENIUS Bill in the United States signal that stablecoins will soon function as foundational financial infrastructure for both traditional commerce and emerging agent-driven economies.
Yet most existing stablecoin fiat gateways still copy legacy banking structures. They custodian funds, over-monitor transactions, delay settlements, and restrict high-risk industries such as iGaming. Operators continue to face frozen balances, withheld profits, and sudden account closures.
Instead of decentralizing commerce, centralized processors reintroduce single points of failure. They strip merchants of privacy, predictability, and true ownership of funds.
PayRam removes these bottlenecks by allowing iGaming operators to deploy and operate their own self-hosted stablecoin payment nodes. This sovereign infrastructure restores payment autonomy, protects funds from blacklisting, enables private deposits, and eliminates third-party revenue risk.
Permissionless Commerce Underpinned By Privacy
PayRam embodies a mission to decentralize the global payments ecosystem. Its founder, Siddharth Menon, who previously co-founded WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, helped bring crypto to more than 15 million users. Today, he’s channeling that experience into building a decentralized PayFi layer engineered for privacy, autonomy, and self-custody.
“The future of payments is decentralized stablecoin payments. As the world moves beyond custodial systems, PayRam is building the foundation for permissionless commerce, where every merchant, creator, or platform can host and own their own payment infrastructure,” said Siddharth Menon, Founder of PayRam. “Just as Uniswap reimagined trading through decentralization, PayRam is reimagining how money moves across the internet.”
iGaming Operators Go Live in Minutes and Expand Into Underserved Regions
PayRam removes all onboarding friction. Operators need no approvals, no vetting, and no centralized onboarding process. Any business can deploy PayRam, configure it, and begin processing private stablecoin payments within 10 minutes.
This instant deployment allows operators to enter underserved and payment-restricted regions, unlock new player bases, and launch real-money gaming operations without waiting on banks, payment processors, or jurisdictional approvals.
PayRam is built as a merchant-first ecosystem, offering advanced accounting analytics, scalable APIs, and automated payments orchestration tools. It also arrives with integrated growth tools like referral and payout systems. Merchants and individuals can issue payment requests, share unique payment links, and monitor transactions through programmable APIs, all operated on infrastructure that users self-host and fully control. The built-in SmartSweep feature uses a family of smart contracts to move funds securely and periodically, eliminating the need to store private keys on servers.
PayRam supports stablecoin and cryptocurrency payments across major networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base, and Tron, with integrations for Polygon, BNB Smart Chain, Solana, Ripple, Monero, and TON next in line.
“We’ve used several crypto payment providers over the years, including BTCPay Server, NOWPayments, and others, but PayRam stands out as truly open and built for the modern internet economy. It gives us full control over our payments and funds, along with stablecoin support, privacy, multi-chain flexibility, and faster global settlements,” said an iGaming operator using PayRam.
PayRam Prepares to Support Agentic Betting With Privacy and Automation
Agentic betting represents the next evolution of iGaming, where autonomous software agents will place bets, execute strategies, manage bankrolls, and settle wagers in real time without human intervention. These systems already power algorithmic trading in financial markets, and iGaming infrastructure now begins to move in the same direction.
Most existing betting and payment infrastructure cannot support this shift. Centralized processors expose transaction logic, restrict automated flows, and introduce settlement delays that break agent-driven wagering models at scale.
PayRam is actively adopting the foundational standards and infrastructure required to support agentic betting in the future. The platform is positioning itself as a privacy-first, decentralized payment layer that will allow autonomous betting systems to operate with:
- Private stablecoin deposits
- Real-time settlement logic
- Automated treasury and bankroll flows
- Programmable payout execution
- Full self-custody and non-custodial risk isolation
By preparing to adopt open standards such as x402 and ERC-8004, PayRam aims to support interoperable and intelligent payment flows between autonomous betting systems, sportsbooks, and gaming platforms when the agentic wagering ecosystem reaches production maturity.
Through this approach, PayRam is building the foundation for a future where payments are private, programmable, and permissionless.
About PayRam
PayRam is the world’s first self-hosted private stablecoin processor, giving merchants and individuals complete control over their payments stack. Built for the next era of permissionless commerce, it merges stablecoin payments with self-hosted infrastructure to enable borderless, censorship-resistant transactions.
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Here are this weeks latest slots releases compiled by European Gaming
BGaming gets in the festive spirit with a Christmas take on its acclaimed casual hit, Aviamasters, with Aviamasters X-Mas. Santa and his sleigh replace the plane from the original title, with players watching as he flies through the air, collecting festive multipliers before hopefully landing on an ice floe to collect his prizes.
Stakelogic is spreading festive cheer this December with the release of Big Sugar Bonanza Xmas, a delicious sequel of the candy-coated hit, Big Sugar Bonanza. Launching on 1st December 2025, the new game transforms the Fluffkins’ sugary kingdom into a winter wonderland of treats and turbo-charged multipliers.
Million Games is bringing festive mayhem to the iGaming world with the launch of Rudolph’s Gone Rogue, a fast-paced Christmas slot where Santa’s most famous reindeer takes centre stage in a runaway holiday adventure. In this 5×3, 20-payline slot, Rudolph bolts into the night sky, dragging the rest of the herd with him and leaving a trail of chaos in his wake.
Spinomenal has unwrapped its new title Majestic Santa, signalling the start of the festive season. Spinomenal’s festive-inspired treat is a 5×3 slot that is bursting with Christmas imagery including red stockings, gingerbread men, and glistening golden bells.
Evoplay has launched Mega Greatest Catch: Blue Marlin, bringing the fearless fisherman Harry back to sea for his most exciting adventure yet. The latest instalment transports players to bright turquoise waters, where random scatters can trigger free spins, wilds appear unexpectedly, and the scatter respin feature offers a welcome second chance to enter the round.
Looking to unwrap longer sessions, stronger engagement and bigger revenues this Christmas? ICONIC21, in-demand iGaming content provider, just launched Sweet Royale Xmas ahead of the holiday season. Sweet Royale is one of the provider’s most popular slots to date and now returns in a Christmas edition decked with boughs of candy to allow operators to leverage the rise in slotting activity during the festive period.
Meet Nolimit City’s latest Crazy Ex-Girlfriend…the kind ex who would “accidentally” like your 2014 selfie at 3am and has a little voodoo doll named after you. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has mapped out your every move and runs through a 2-4-4-4-4-2 layout across 6 reels.
It’s the most magical time of the year, but don’t expect a peaceful Christmas with the release of Realistic Games’ latest blockbuster slot, Wreckmas. The new 5×3, feature-packed slot brings toppled trees, tangled tinsel and chaotic carols to a family Christmas, along with the chance to hit a 5,000x max win.
Players can jingle their way to jackpot joy in Christmas MegapotsTM from Big Time Gaming. This festive slot brings Big Time Gaming’s legendary Megapots mechanic to life with seasonal sparkle, giving players the chance to unwrap Mini, Midi or Mega Jackpots with each spin.
Players are being commanded to raise the sails and brace themselves for a high seas adventure like no other in Captain WinBreaker, the latest swashbuckling slot from Northern Lights Gaming. This pirate-themed slot sees players take the helm of a ship bound for treasures and untold riches.
Amusnet has released 20 Burning Hot Buy Bonus, a sizzling twist on the classic fruit slot. Set across 5 reels and 3 lines, this game combines familiar symbols with modern mechanics for fast-paced spins, vibrant visuals and nonstop excitement.
SlotMatrix is embracing the holiday season with Santa’s Golden Christmas, a sparkling new slot packed with festive cheer, golden prizes, and heart-warming holiday magic. Set in a winter wonderland, the game brings players closer to the jolly gift-giver.
Inspired Entertainment, Inc. is thrilled to announce the exclusive launch of its brand-new, bespoke slot game, Spin O’Reely Grand Chance, in collaboration with long time partners bet365. Expanding bet365’s popular exclusive Irish-themed Spin O’Reely game series, the game will initially be available to players in the UK, Ontario, and New Jersey, with more markets to follow soon.
Play’n GO pits sun god Ra against serpent deity Apophis in Ra’s Reckoning, a mythic grid slot inspired by the celestial battles of ancient Egypt. Ra’s Reckoning brings players face to face with an age-old mythic struggle – the eternal duel between light and chaos.
Playson has unleashed a whirlwind of excitement with Tornado Power: Hold and Win, introducing a new Tornado Feature and enhanced payouts. The 3×4, 10 payline slot features immersive visuals with old-school charm, as the untamed gameplay is further enhanced by a new Tornado Feature
ELA Games announces the release of its latest title, Joker Jam, a bold visual addition to the studio’s growing portfolio of strategic yet aesthetic games. Set under the neon glow of a vibrant city, Joker Jam reimagines the classic Vegas aesthetic into a thrilling experience.
Just Slots has announced the exclusive launch of its newest title, Dynamo’s Show, available on Gamdom and Stake. A full network release will follow on 11 December 2025. This vibrant new slot transforms the classic Hold & Collect experience into a full theatrical performance
Spinomenal is celebrating the holiday season by inviting players for a festive journey with The North Star Express – Hold & Hit 3×3. Unfolding against a wintry backdrop, North Star Express arrives to present a fun, festive adventure as players race through snowy forests.
Belatra Games, the specialist online slots developer, has rolled out the red carpet to the Frozen Barrel Tavern to celebrate the festive season. Players are warmly welcomed into a cosy winter tavern that radiates holiday cheer and buzzes with Christmas chatter.
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Company reveals a substantial rise in player value after casinos add sports betting
DATA.BET, a leading sportsbook solution supplier, reports notable performance improvements among casino operators that introduced sports betting through the company’s plug-and-play integration.
According to internal statistics across multiple clients, adding a betting vertical resulted in players who use both casino and sports betting, generating up to a 4x increase in player lifetime value (LTV) compared to their previous casino-only behavior, while the same betting-active segment delivered an average 12% additional revenue without additional player acquisition. Operators also recorded higher retention and engagement levels, with every second casino player placing at least one sports bet after the sportsbook launch.
The clients have noticed these results after integrating a Single Page Application (iFrame), which takes around one week. While DATA.BET manages all betting-related operations and configurations — both at launch and ongoing — casino operators instantly gain access to a full suite of sports, esports, and virtual sports events, allowing them to focus on marketing and player acquisition. To enhance flexibility and engagement, the iFrame supports full customization: from color themes and layouts to dynamic banners, promo blocks, configurable bonuses, and margin/odds control.
The company designed the SEO-friendly solution to ensure that search engine crawlers can easily read and index the content, thereby improving discoverability, page load times, and the overall quality of metadata, which contributes to higher SEO rankings and better visibility in organic search results.
Yurii Berest, CEO of DATA.BET, commented: “For many casinos, betting is more than diversification – it helps operators to maximize the potential of their existing audience and improve the efficiency of traffic monetization. As the average stake in sports is traditionally higher than in slots, operators experience instant revenue growth while retaining and extending player lifetime value. It is a powerful model of sustainable growth that helps to boost not only the current player base but also attract new audience”.
As the market continues shifting toward universal gambling ecosystems, DATA.BET’s solution demonstrates that sports betting drives measurable financial impact for casino operators, turning existing audiences into long-term revenue drivers.
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