The evolution of malware is being fueled largely by the proliferation of IoT. According to Gartner data, there were about 8 billion connected “things” in 2017. But that number is expected to nearly triple to more than 20 billion in just the next two years, which averages out to roughlyRead More…
Kaspersky Lab researchers announced that they have uncovered a sophisticated threat used for cyber-espionage in the Middle East and Africa from at least 2012 until February 2018. Slingshot is a malware that attacks and infects victims through compromised routers and can run in kernel mode, giving it complete control over victims’Read More…
SonicWall releases the report for its research and intelligence derived out from the 2018 Cyber Threat Report. The company recorded 9.32 billion malware attacks in 2017 and saw more than 12,500 new Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) reported for the year. “The cyber arms race affects every government, business, organizationRead More…
ESET has launched ESET Smart TV Security – an advanced technology protection solution against targeted malware attacks on connected TVs and other devices with the Android TV operational system.Read More…
According to latest Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR), malware sophistication is increasing as adversaries begin to weaponize cloud services and evade detection through encryption, used as a tool to conceal command-and-control activity. As per the report, security professionals said to reduce adversaries’ time to operate they will increasingly leverageRead More…
The guest written article contributed by the security writer at ESET, Tomas Foltyn discussing the security concerns persist while more and more consumers are snapping up smart TVs. The times when all that our TV sets could do was show us ‘regular’ TV stations are now over. These days, such ‘old-school’ TVs areRead More…
Leading Security vendor, SonicWall recently revealed that it has developed a new Capture Cloud engine, which has discovered hundreds of new malware variants not seen before by sandboxing technology.Read More…
Sophos announced the availability of Intercept X with malware detection powered by advanced deep learning neural networks. Combined with new active-hacker mitigation, advanced application lockdown, and enhanced ransomware protection, this latest release of the next-generation endpoint protection delivers previously unseen levels of detection and prevention. Deep learning is the latest evolution of machineRead More…
