Malware & Threats

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Know Your Security X’s and O’s: Your Cyberdefense Team Is Only as Good as Its Threat Intelligence

All of us in the security industry realize that we face a virtually insurmountable task to ensure that the data belonging to our organizations and customers is kept safe and secure. If you step back and think about it, the list of potential perpetrators is daunting in scope. It includes cybercriminals, hacktivists, foreign governments, and…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: CSO

11 ways ransomware is evolving

Ransomware detection and recovery tools and techniques are getting better. Unfortunately, so are ransomware developers. They are making ransomware harder to find and encrypted files harder to recover. One advantage that security operations have had over ransomware is that it’s predictable. It works in a linear fashion, which gives security tools and teams an opportunity…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

WannaCry Re-emerges at Boeing

Computers at the aerospace giant were hit by the WannaCry malware but systems are back to normal WannaCry is still around and aerospace giant Boeing is the latest victim. In a flurry of activity on Wednesday, Boeing found itself infected, analyzed the infection, contained and cleaned the affected systems, and returned to normal operations.

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Symantec Blog

Why Go it Alone Trying to Keep Your Organization Safe?

The threat landscape is getting more dangerous because it’s increasingly easy for malware authors to assemble elements (just in time) and deliver malicious payloads, and the likelihood they’ll get caught is very low.  Moreover, there’s far too much misleading information about cyber threats out there — for example, even though zero day threats receive plenty…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Help Net Security

Like any threat, malware evolves: Discover new trends

Cofense released the 2018 Cofense Malware Review, detailing the trends that defined malware attacks in 2017 and the emerging trends for network defenders to prioritize in 2018. While a couple of high profile breaches stole the spotlight in 2017, Cofense’s global security team uncovered a number of less visible evolutions that dramatically changed the threat…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

18.5 Million Websites Infected With Malware at Any Time

There are more than 1.86 billion websites on the internet. Around 1% of these — something like 18,500,000 — are infected with malware at a given time each week; while the average website is attacked 44 times every day. Sitelock has published its Q4 2017 Website Security Insider analysis of malware and websites based on…

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Issued by: Kaspersky Blog

Small hacks: Free coffee, spying taxis, and a vulnerable airport

News websites often feature stories about computer errors and vulnerabilities used to perpetrate sophisticated large-scale incidents like last year’s WannaCry and NotPetya attacks. But experts know that most successful hacks and cracks are the result of very basic blunders by system developers or installers. Incorrectly configured systems are everywhere, and only a few hours separate the moment when a…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Intelligence

When It Comes to Cyber Risks, 2018 Is No Time to Play Games

While some organizations have spent decades fine-tuning their ability to respond to and manage cyber risks, far too many are still playing games with their security strategy. From a cybersecurity perspective, 2017 will go down as a record year for data breaches. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reported 1,579 breaches, up 45 percent from 2016. By…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

Hackers Tried to Cause Saudi Petrochemical Plant Blast: NYT

Cyber-attackers tried to trigger a deadly explosion at a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in August and failed only because of a code glitch, The New York Times reported. Investigators declined to identify the suspected attackers, but people interviewed by the newspaper unanimously said that it most likely aimed to cause a blast that would have guaranteed…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

PinkKite POS Malware Is Small but Powerful

A newly discovered piece of malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems has a very small size but can do a lot on the infected systems, security researchers reveal. Called PinkKite, the POS malware was observed last year as part of a large campaign that ended in December, but was only detailed last week at Kaspersky Lab’s…