TrickBot Takes Over, After Cops Kneecap Emotet

A massive malicious spam campaign, along with the global takedown of Emotet, has vaulted the TrickBot trojan to the top of the Check Point’s list of the most popular malware among cybercriminals for February. In January, TrickBot was ranked third on Check Point’s list, and it was fourth overall f...

Identity governance: The power of “Why not?”

Innovation requires the courage to take risks and the leadership skills to show others that risks are worth taking. That’s why I love working with people like Joe Dadzie, a partner group program manager in identity governance. Joe has a long history of championing disruptive technology...

Google Boots 164 Apps from Play Marketplace for Shady Ad Practices

Google has removed 164 apps, downloaded a total of 10 million times, from its Google Play marketplace because they were delivering “disruptive” ads, considered malicious. Last year, the tech giant banned apps that delivered this type of advertising, called out-of-context ads. But the problem...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads

Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The company categorizes disruptive ads as "ads that are displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of...

Google Bans 600 Android Apps for Obnoxious Ads

Google has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for serving up obnoxious, invasive ads that aren’t easily “x’d” out of. The internet giant said the enforcement action was a strike against mobile ad fraud. Google said Thursday that the apps violated its disruptive ads policy – and a...

Oil-and-Gas APT Pivots to U.S. Power Plants.

A known APT group with ties to the Iran-linked APT33, dubbed Magnallium, has expanded its targeting from the global oil-and-gas industry to specifically include electric companies in North America. That’s according to a report from Dragos, released Thursday, which noted that the discovery is part...

Iranian Attacks on Industrial Control Systems

New details: At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity of the Iranian hacker group APT33, also known by the names Holmium,...

CVE-2019-4243

IBM SmartCloud Analytics 1.3.1 through 1.3.5 allows unauthorized disclosure of information like accessing solrconfig.xml and could allow an attacker to perform disruptive administrator tasks. IBM X-Force ID: 159517...

CVE-2019-4243

IBM SmartCloud Analytics 1.3.1 through 1.3.5 allows unauthorized disclosure of information like accessing solrconfig.xml and could allow an attacker to perform disruptive administrator tasks. IBM X-Force ID: 159517...

Information disclosure

IBM SmartCloud Analytics 1.3.1 through 1.3.5 allows unauthorized disclosure of information like accessing solrconfig.xml and could allow an attacker to perform disruptive administrator tasks. IBM X-Force ID: 159517...

CVE-2019-4243

IBM SmartCloud Analytics 1.3.1 through 1.3.5 allows unauthorized disclosure of information like accessing solrconfig.xml and could allow an attacker to perform disruptive administrator tasks. IBM X-Force ID: 159517...

The WannaCry Security Legacy and What’s to Come

May 12 will mark the second anniversary of the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm attack. It was a troubling time: During the four-day long ordeal, the cryptoworm infected more than 300,000 endpoints among 200,000 separate victims throughout 150 countries. It propagated rapidly through the EternalBlu...

Overview of rapid cyberattacks

Rapid cyberattacks like Petya and WannaCrypt have reset our expectations on the speed and scope of damage that a cyberattack can inflict. The Microsoft Enterprise Cybersecurity Group Detection and Response team worked extensively to help customers respond to and recover from these kinds of attack...

Overview of rapid cyberattacks

Rapid cyberattacks like Petya and WannaCrypt have reset our expectations on the speed and scope of damage that a cyberattack can inflict. The Microsoft Enterprise Cybersecurity Group Detection and Response team worked extensively to help customers respond to and recover from these kinds of attack...

Security Advisory 0030

Security Advisory 0030 PDF Date: October 2nd, 2017 Version: 1.0 Revision| Date| Changes ---|---|--- 1.0 | October 2nd, 2017 | Public release 1.1 | October 3rd, 2017 | Updates to clarify impact and add mitigation 1.2 | October 6th, 2017 | Updates to the affected software release table 1.3 | Octobe...

FIN10: Anatomy of a Cyber Extortion Operation

FireEye has identified a set of financially motivated intrusion operations being carried out by a threat actor we have dubbed FIN10. FIN10 is known for compromising networks, stealing sensitive data, and directly engaging victim executives and board members in an attempt to extort them into payin...

Wallarm Finalist at 2017 Red Herring Top 100 North America

LOS ANGELES — 6.06.2017 — Wallarm has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award, one of the technology industry’s most prestigious prizes. Finalists for the awards are among the continent’s brightest and most innovative private ventures. Their place among North...

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 —...

Size, Funding of Bank DDoS Attacks Grow in Third Phase

The resumption this week of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks brought not only more cost and disruption to financial institutions trying keep online services available, but it also raised new questions about the funding and true motives behind the attacks. A number of...