VirusTotal Adds Cynet's Artificial Intelligence-Based Malware Detection

VirusTotal, the famous multi-antivirus scanning service owned by Google, recently announced new threat detection capabilities it added with the help of an Israeli cybersecurity firm. VirusTotal provides a free online service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs to detect malware and...

Chinese Face-Swapping App ZAO Sparks Privacy Concerns After Going Crazily Viral

What could be more exciting than seeing yourself starring alongside your favorite actor in a movie, music video, or TV program? Yes, that's possible—well, kind of, by using a new AI-based deepfake app that has gone viral in China over this weekend, climbing to the top of the free apps list in the...

Cylance Antivirus Products Susceptible to Concatenation Bypass

Overview The Cylance AI-based antivirus product, prior to July 21, 2019, contains flaws that allow an adversary to craft malicious files that the AV product will likely mistake for benign files. Description Cylance PROTECT is an endpoint protection system. It contains an antivirus functionality...

Trojanized BitTorrent Software Update Hijacked 400,000 PCs Last Week

A massive malware outbreak that last week infected nearly half a million computers with cryptocurrency mining malware in just a few hours was caused by a backdoored version of popular BitTorrent client called MediaGet. Dubbed Dofoil also known as Smoke Loader, the malware was found dropping a...

A Star Wars Analogy to Defend Against Non-Malware Attacks and the Dark Side

I like watching movies because I can relate almost anything in my real life to the movies I watched. Last week, I did a presentation at "Security Days Tokyo 2018," and I used Star Wars to describe the targeted attacks, non-malware attacks, AI-based, NGAV, etc. The Star Wars analogies were well...

August 16, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Elvis” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 16, 2017 - Headlines In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the...

Wallarm CEO Ivan Novikov joins Forbes Technology Council

White hat security professional and entrepreneur Ivan Novikov has joined the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community that serves as a platform for technology leaders to discuss and solve pressing business challenges with their peers and share their insights with readers on...

Microsoft Adding Artificial-Intelligence Based Advanced Antivirus to Windows 10

Microsoft is making every effort to make its Windows operating system more secure and advanced than ever before by beefing up its security practices and hardening it against hackers and cyber attacks in its next release. With the launch of its Windows 10 Creator Update also known as RedStone 3,...

Wallarm is Kairos Society fellow!

Do you know what Kairos Society is? Frankly speaking, we had never heard of it until the beginning of the year. Now we’re amazed at how lucky we are. Here is why. What is Kairos society? Kairos team reached out to us by saying that we’re one of the nominees for Top50 Innovative Companies 2017 —...