Article written and contributed by John Madisson, Senior Vice President for Products and Solutions at Fortinet shares his opinion about the fast evolving cyber security landscape and the rise of Cryptojacking in recent times. As the threat landscape continues to become more complex and more difficult to fight, it forcesRead More…
Guest written by Stephen Cobb, Senior Security Researcher at ESET describes the steps to reboot your router in order to secure it properly against the latest malware VPNFilter, which have compromised over half a million routers worldwide.. Reboot your router! That is the advice put out on May 25, 2018, by oneRead More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes. This is the first time the Doppelgänging techniqueRead More…
Denise Giusto Bilić, Security Researcher at ESET summarizes some of the common behaviors of malicious Android code over the last few years.Read More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered ZooPark, a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign, which for several years has been targeting users of Android devices based in several Middle Eastern countries. Using legitimate websites as sources of infection, the campaign appears to be a nation-state backed operation aimed at political organizations, activists and otherRead More…
According to the latest Comodo Cybersecurity Threat Research Labs’ “Global Malware Report Q1 2018.” revealed that the first quarter for 2018 (for Jan-March 2018) threat analysis shows a very different picture from 2017, as cryptominers surged to the top of detected malware incidents, displacing ransomware — which declined significantly in volumeRead More…
In 2017, Saudi Arabia’s education sector was most affected by malware, followed by government, and telecommunications. Other sectors also affected were healthcare, manufacturing, and oil & gas. Furthermore, of the 1.7 billion known ransomware threats globally in 2017, the Kingdom accounted for 0.55%.Read More…
Paul Ducklin, Senior Technologist, Sophos talks about the malware family that had infiltrated Google Play by presenting itself as a bunch of handy utilities. Sophos reported the offending apps to Google, and they’ve now been pulled from the Play Store, but not before some of them attracted more than 500,000 downloads.Read More…
