The Parallax

APRIL 17, 2019

Researcher Sara-Jayne Terp shows in her misinformation pyramid how attackers and defenders follow similar patterns to malware campaigns. Whether attackers are trying to spread malware or disinformation, they have to study the people they’re targeting.

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Symantec

APRIL 28, 2019

SGX-based malware may not be as troublesome as believed. We'll explain why that is and how Symantec is ready to deal with such malware if they were to appear

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Cloudera Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Two new strains of malware– XBash and DemonBot –are targeting Apache Hadoop servers for Bitcoin mining and DDOS purposes. This blog post describes the mechanism this malware uses and offers specific actions to protect your Hadoop-based clusters. A History of Hadoop Malware.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 30, 2018

During a month that’s seen Android malware new and old plague the world’s most popular mobile operating system, Google says its Play Store is becoming more civilized and less like the Wild West. Ahn adds that Android malware is becoming more advanced.

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CTOvision

MAY 1, 2019

Grimes explain 9 types of malware and how they can affect you on CSO Online : People tend to play fast and loose with security terminology. However, it’s important to get your malware classifications straight because knowing how various types of malware spread is vital to containing and removing them. This concise malware […]. Read Roger A.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 23, 2019

Here’s an exclusive preview of how we’ve used Cortex XDR to hunt, identify, and remediate a piece of persistent malware. How to hunt for persistent malware. In the below screenshot, oMO.exe is identified as malware, which is why it shows up in red.

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Spiceworks

MAY 21, 2019

Is there any way to whitelist the files it flags as malware? Our customer is running Office 365 Business Essential and have their files in Office 365 groups. They write there own program and it seems like Sharepoint Online is flagging some.jar and.zip files as virus. This makes the backup throw warnings and cannot backup thise files. It does not report anything in Security and Compliance>Threat Managment>Review. We do not have the ATP subscription. . office 365

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CTOvision

JULY 29, 2014

Three Questions on Automated Malware Removal with Bob Gourley, Cognitio Corp and CTOVision. While there’s still an emphasis – and related spending – on malware detection, most incident response teams are actually overwhelmed by vast number of security alerts they receive.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The video below explores DDP Protected Workspace and uniquely addresses healthcare regulations related to malware prevention. Individuals take malware and obtain the characteristics pertaining to the individual and find ways to get around the malware inspections in place.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 21, 2017

In hindsight, the blog post should have been titled “Are you ready for state-sponsored zombie malware attacks?” Zombie malware combines the most deadly aspects of malware and zombie computers into one horrible mess. Typically malware gets […]. Artificial Intelligence CTO Cyber Security Cyber Threats Internet of Things News Robots Cybersecurity Malware

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CTOvision

APRIL 23, 2019

HP on Tuesday announced a bevy of PC updates and new features, as well as the formal release of HP Sure Sense, the company’s new software that uses AI to prevent and block malware in near-real-time, including ransomware and previously unknown malware.

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AlienVault

DECEMBER 17, 2018

In part 1 of this blog series, we analyzed malware behaviour, and, in part 2 , we learned how to detect persistence tricks used in malware attacks. Imagine your company is being targeted by one of the latest threats and you want to detect the activity the malware is performing.

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AlienVault

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In the first part of this series, we saw how you can use Osquery to analyze and extract valuable information about malware’s behavior. In this post, we are going to see another common technique that malware uses persistence. Here is an example of OilRig malware.

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DevOps.com

MAY 15, 2019

The post SecureAge Integrates Artificial Intelligence Powered APEX Anti-Malware Engine in VirusTotal appeared first on DevOps.com.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Sucuri researchers discovered that the campaign sent out malicious emails masquerading as a confirmation for a recent transaction. Digital attackers deployed this disguise in the hopes that employees at the targeted bank would click on a link to a malicious PHP file out of alarm. That file was responsible for loading a fake 404 error […]. Cyber Security News

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AlienVault

JULY 31, 2018

In this blog series, we’ll analyze different malware families, looking at the types of events generated on the endpoint and how we can use Osquery to detect them. The dropper spreads through email phishing and downloads the malware using a malicious Office macro.

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Netskope

JULY 18, 2018

The complexity of different types of malware continues to grow and zero-day malware is often missed by traditional security solutions. Here’s use case #19: Block and quarantine zero-day malware in the cloud. Support quarantine workflows that are malware-centric.

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CTOvision

JUNE 21, 2014

The video at this link and embedded below provides an overview of conclusions from CTOvision research into ways to automate the removal of cyber threats (including malware) from your enterprise. By Bob Gourley.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 23, 2019

Trojan malware attacks against business targets have rocketed in the last year, as cybercriminals alter their tactics away from short-term gain and in-your-face ransomware attacks towards more subtle, long-term campaigns with the aim of stealing information including banking information, personal data, and even intellectual property.

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Edgewise

JANUARY 31, 2019

What happens, then, when a cyber attack, namely malware, is used to uninstall security software designed specifically to prevent public cloud infrastructure compromise? This is precisely what happened with a new malware variant discovered by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Malware exists even there - and it spreads fast. And like any system with a physical backend, the cloud can easily be subject to a wide range of vulnerabilities - including malware. But malware on the cloud is a very real, and very present threat. The problem is that the malware components aren’t identifiable through traditional scanning simply because they aren’t assembled as malware until the moment of attack.Some exploits appear to be benign.”.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 12, 2018

A cyber espionage group is deploying a new type of trojan malware against telecommunications, information technology, and government organisations. Dubbed Seedworm, the group has been operating since at least 2017, and although it predominantly looks to infiltrate organisations in the Middle East, organisations based in Europe and North America have also been targets. The hacking operation — […].

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2019

UC Browser, a hugely popular mobile browser from Alibaba-owned UCWeb, has a design flaw that allows attackers to swap out downloads from the company’s servers with files from any server on the internet, according to researchers at Russian security firm Dr. Web. The company has raised an alarm over the mobile browser because it can download […]. Cyber Security News

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CTOvision

JUNE 10, 2014

We believe this is the only way to reduce the impact of malware and breaches in a cost effective way. By Bob Gourley. Threat actors are increasingly automating their attacks, making defense harder and overwhelming incident response teams.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Signature based solutions are being bypassed by malware every day. The pervasiveness and sophistication of modern malware is damaging computers to a point where expert int. Problem: Everyone is in agreement that today’s antivirus software alone is no longer a viable solution by itself. The most recent reports from Symantec and McAfee have publicly said “Do not rely solely on our products to protect your computer.” Face it, the bad guys are winning.

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CTOvision

MAY 23, 2018

Cyber firms, Ukraine warn of planned Russian attack Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit says 500K+ routers in dozens of countries have been infected by Russia-linked malware and could be used to attack Ukraine. Cisco Systems Inc warned on Wednesday that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with [.]. CTO Cyber Security Cyber War News

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Symantec

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A new attack group is targeting government, military, and defense sectors in what appears to be a classic espionage campaign

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Darktrace

APRIL 16, 2018

Darktrace regularly detects crypto-mining attempts the moment they occur on a network

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Lastline Enterprise and Analyst deliver protection against targeted attacks, advanced persistent threats (APTs), zero-day exploits, and other advanced malware that bypass traditional signature-based controls and sandbox-based analysis systems. A video overview is at this link and embedded below: [link]. Easy to deploy and simple to administer, Lastline’s solutions are universal to Web, email, file, To read more please log in. Not a member yet? We would love to have you onboard.

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Darktrace

JULY 31, 2017

Darktrace used machine learning to cut through the smokescreen of a self-modifying cyber-attack

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The Parallax

JUNE 18, 2018

On May 25, the FBI issued a clarion call to a broad swath of Wi-Fi router owners: To clear out a potential botnet malware infection, reboot your router. The actors used VPNFilter malware to target small office and home office routers.

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ProtectWise

MAY 18, 2016

In January 2016, Palo Alto Network's Unit 42 released research describing new instances of malware being leveraged by an adversary group previously known as "C0d0so0" or "Codoso." com in December 2015 via the HTTP variant malware described in Unit 42's blog post.

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Jeremiah Grossman

JUNE 6, 2016

In this case, malware and ransomware. Intersection of security guarantees and cyber-insurance Explosion of Ransomware Vulnerability remediation Industry skill shortage Measuring the impact of SDLC security controls The only problem on the list I haven’t gotten the chance to work on is ransomware, an incredibly effective and fast-growing form of malware that’s taking over. Today is a big day for me.

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CTOvision

JULY 23, 2014

We believe this is the only way to reduce the impact of malware and breaches in a cost effective way. By Bob Gourley. Threat actors are increasingly automating their attacks, making defense harder and overwhelming incident response teams.

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Darktrace

MARCH 7, 2018

Last month Darktrace identified an advanced malware infection on a customer’s device, which used a sophisticated Command & Control (C2) channel to communicate with the attacker

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