Sophos, has published new research, “Gootloader Expands Its Payload Delivery Options,” that details how the delivery method for the six-year-old Gootkit financial malware has been developed into a complex and stealthy delivery system for a wide range of malware, including ransomware.Read More…
Fortinet today announced the findings of the latest semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report. Threat intelligence from the second half of 2020 demonstrates an unprecedented cyber threat landscape where cyber adversaries maximized the constantly expanding attack surface to scale threat efforts around the world. Adversaries proved to be highlyRead More…
Nutanix today announced additional ransomware protections in the company’s cloud platform. These include new threat monitoring and detection, as well as more granular data replication and robust access controls一all natively built into the Nutanix stack. These new capabilities build on Nutanix’s rich data services for network security, files and objectsRead More…
Cisco has revealed the findings of its Defending Against Critical Threats Report, noting changes in criminal activity during 2020 and new methods of exploitation, arising as a result of the pandemic.Read More…
Cameron Camp, Security Researcher at ESET discusses the latest cyber attack against the water supply in Florida and shares his views on how municipalities can do to better protect their water supply systems.Read More…
Check Point Research has published its latest UAE Threat Index for January 2021. Researchers found that banking trojan Trickbot impacted 7% of organizations in the UAE, while the Emotet trojan which has remained in first place in the top malware list globally for a second month running impacting 6% ofRead More…
Proofpoint today released its seventh annual State of the Phish report, which explores enterprise phishing experiences and provides an in-depth look at user awareness, vulnerability, and resilience. More than 75% of surveyed infosec professionals said their organizations faced broad-based phishing attacks—both successful and unsuccessful—in 2020, and ransomwareRead More…
Sophos today published its latest findings into real-world attacks investigated by its Rapid Response team. The article, “Nefilim Ransomware Attack Uses ‘Ghost’ Credentials,” details how a failure to keep close tabs on “ghost” account credentials facilitated two recent cyberattacks, one of which involved Nefilim ransomware.Read More…
