Google: Its Tech Now Blocks 99.9% of Gmail Phishing and Spam Emails

By Jahanzaib Hassan After the effects of the phishing campaign that used Google Docs as a tool to attack, Google has launched a number of upgrades to Gmail and its browser so that users can be notified and warned of suspicious emails and websites that may contain malware. The new machine-learning...

A Growing Symphony of Security Analytics Tools Needs Careful Orchestration

Security analytics tools available to companies are increasing rapidly. However, cyber incident and vulnerability prevention, detection, response, and recovery times remain significant challenges as the types of attacks and attack vectors increase. Newer cyber analytics using machine learning are...

Dedicated Machine Learning Behind Early Phishing Detection in Gmail

Cybercrime and state-sponsored advanced attacks continue to cling to email as a primary distribution vehicle for first-stage malware. Phishing campaigns thrive in targeted attacks, and criminals have even resuscitated old-school macro malware in attachments to gain that initial foothold on a...

What to look for when considering a WAF?

When web based applications become important components of business IP, protecting these applications is a key part of doing business. Most of IT and DevOps professionals are not thinking whether they need a Web Application Firewall WAF. Instead, they are trying to decide which WAF is right for...

Thwart Insider Threats with Machine Learning [Infographic]

Potentially the most lethal kind of threat to an organization’s security, insider threats can pose risks as significant as—if not more than—external attacks. Because insiders are granted trusted access to sensitive data, these threats often fly under the security radar. By examining how users...

Accelerating AI Research to Improve Threat Protection

Once the realm of science fiction, artificial intelligence AI is now very much science fact. The potential of this ground-breaking technology – and related disciplines including deep learning and machine learning – is so great that even governments in the UK and US have released reports on its...

Antivirus evolved

Some say antivirus is an outdated technology. What does “antivirus” even mean? For us, antivirus is the most commonly recognized term that means for customers “a product that stops bad programs from infecting my device.” Saying “antivirus” is similar to when you hear a Southerner like myself say...

How organizations can protect against new CERBER variations

TrendMicro Ransomware hit hard in 2016, with big attacks, large payouts and many new strains developed to thwart security measures. At the end of last year, Locky and CERBER ransomware families seemed to be neck and neck for market dominance. But that changed as CERBER evolved to offer new...

In the picture, the added noise will be able to fool Google's best image recognition AI-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Recently, a group from the University of Washington, network security lab NSL's computer experts found that a malicious attacker can trick Google's CloudVision API, this will cause the API to the user-submitted images were incorrectly classified. In recent years, based on the AI of the image...

Machine learning and the fight against ransomware

Ransomware is now everywhere. The number of emails containing ransomware rose 6,000 percent since 2015, and in 2016, 40 percent of all spam emails had one of these malicious programs hidden within, according to IBM. Other reports highlight the sophistication of ransomware nowadays and it's...

Combating a spate of Java malware with machine learning in real-time

In recent weeks, we have seen a surge in emails carrying fresh malicious Java .jar malware that use new techniques to evade antivirus protection. But with our research team’s automated expert systems and machine learning models, Windows 10 PCs get real-time protection against these latest threats...

Five Reasons Why I Joined Wallarm

By Johan Nordstrom The question of “what made you change jobs?” may be old, but the answer with my move to Wallarm is new and clear. I have a vision how to address the dynamic threat landscape of today and Wallarm’s innovative approach to security is in line with these ideas. In my 30 years caree...

Kong and Wallarm Partner Up to Boost Microservices API Security

Wallarm has partnered with Mashape to provide the microservices community with API security. Mashape enterprise customers who use Kong API gateway can now quickly add API security protection without change in Kong user’s deployment. Read more about Kong and Wallarm partnership in this blog. Today...

Tech support scams persist with increasingly crafty techniques

Note: Our Tech support scams FAQ page has the latest info on this type of threat, including scammer tactics, fake error messages, and the latest scammer hotlines. You can also read our latest blog, New tech support scam launches communication or phone call app. Millions of users continue to...

Incident Detection and Investigation - How Math Helps But Is Not Enough

I love math. I am even going to own up to having been a "mathlete" and looking forward to the annual UVM Math Contest in high school. I pursued a degree in engineering, so I can now more accurately say that I love applied mathematics, which have a much different goal than pure mathematics. Taking...

Zimperium Program Buys Exploits for Patched Mobile Vulnerabilities

Mobile security company Zimperium said Tuesday that it will start buying exploits, but in a departure from most other programs, it will not be buying zero-days. The company’s N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program will pay researchers from a pool of $1.5 million for exploits targeting vulnerabilities...

Microsoft Shares Telemetry Data Collected from Windows 10 Users with 3rd-Party

Cyber security is a major challenge in today's world, as cyber attacks have become more automated and difficult to detect, where traditional cyber security practices and systems are no longer sufficient to protect businesses, governments, and other organizations. In past few years, Artificial...

deep-pwning - Metasploit for Machine Learning

Deep-pwning is a lightweight framework for experimenting with machine learning models with the goal of evaluating their robustness against a motivated adversary. Note that deep-pwning in its current state is no where close to maturity or completion. It is meant to be experimented with, expanded...

Microsoft Bolsters Ransomware Protection in Windows 10

Microsoft says it hardened its ransomware defenses in Windows 10 Anniversary Update in the face of skyrocketing infection rates and a doubling in the number ransomware variants released into the wild over the past 12 months. In a whitepaper PDF released last week, Microsoft explained its latest...

Skyping And Typing Threatens Privacy

Multitasking while on a work-related Skype call may be good for productivity, but perhaps not so much for privacy. Typing while using Skype or over other Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP services presents an opportunity for an attacker to record the conversation, separate out the emanations from...