Category: Analysis

The sudden appearance of a new ransomware on a large number of enterprise networks was not the May Day gift anyone wanted A new ransomware that calls itself MegaCortex got a jolt of life on Wednesday as we detected a spike in the number of attacks against Sophos customers around the world, including in Italy, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, and other countries. The attackers delivering this new malware campaign employed sophisticated techiques in the attempt to infect victims. The convoluted infection methodology MegaCortex employs leverages both automated and…

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Are you a Facebook user? If you are, then you can count yourself amongst a global community that includes roughly 2.2 billion other monthly active users. That’s pretty wild to think about especially when considering that is active users per month. However, an even more mind-boggling number is the amount of fake accounts the social media giant deleted in the first quarter of 2018: 583 million. Yep, more than half a billion Facebook accounts, all fake, all deleted. In the just the first quarter of this year. To put that…

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Cybercrime continues to plague organizations across the world, causing immense amounts of damage and confusion. In 2018, we witnessed an alarming number of large scale data breaches, and the repercussions were both dangerous and costly. Motortech, a specialist manufacturer of parts and accessories for stationary gas engines, recognized the potential damage an attack could inflict, and strengthened their capabilities with Check Point Infinity. “It is important that cyber threats are controlled, blocked or dismissed before they reach the end-user,” says Marcus Morig, Head of Information Technology, Motortech. “We want our…

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International Data Corporation (IDC) today published an IDC Innovators report profiling three companies that offer compelling and differentiated mobile app security testing solutions. The three companies named IDC Innovators are High-Tech Bridge, Kryptowire, and NowSecure. Enterprises around the globe are developing and deploying mobile applications that have code, back-end integration flaws, and other built-in aspects that make the people and companies using these apps vulnerable to data theft or misuse. Manual inspection of the code, firmware, devices, and so forth is too time intensive for many organizations and is prone…

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As cyber-attacks continue to evolve in scale and sophistication, the amount of internet traffic facing enterprises and data centers rises accordingly. Doubling every three years, this massive increase of encrypted traffic over SSL becomes even more of a challenge for complete security. There’s only one way to manage this – enter R80.20 Cyber Security Management. With new, innovative AI engines – dubbed Cadet, Campaign Hunting, and Huntress – R80.20 boasts triple the threat prevention accuracy, with a higher catch rate and lower false positives. R80.20’s new software acceleration engine can…

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Artificial intelligence continues to proliferate and influence our lives. Speech recognition and image recognition rely on AI. The financial sector is moving to AI-based insurance risk analysis, credit scores and loan eligibility. We’re also seeing the emergence of AI-based robot lawyers and AI-based medical diagnostics and prognoses. But can artificial intelligence be used effectively to combat cyberattacks? AI-influenced cybersecurity capabilities have evolved well beyond AI washing (a derogatory term coined to describe a technology billed as AI but which in reality, as InfoWorld put it, is “an attempt to make dumb…

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Technology surrounds us. From the phones in our hands to the televisions on our walls and the appliances in our kitchen, new tech comes at us from every angle. Many of us fail to fully understand just how advanced those everyday conveniences are now and the extent of what they will be in the future. Four simple words can help clarify where we’re at and the limitless possibilities of where we’re going. The Internet of Things. Now is the point of the conversation when many say, “sure, the internet, it’s…

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Chrome Remote Desktop is an extension to the Chrome browser that allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook. It is fully cross-platform, and supports macOS versions from OS X 10.6 (2009) and above, all from the Chrome browser on virtually any device. However, one of our security analysts recently noticed an unexpected behavior in Google Chrome Remote Desktop Application on macOS. The strange behaviour allows, in some cases, a ‘Guest user’ to login as Guest and yet receive an active session of another user…

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