Mining the YARA Ecosystem: From Ad-Hoc Sharing to Data-Driven Threat Intelligence

YARA has established itself as the de facto standard for "Detection as Code," enabling analysts and DevSecOps practitioners to define signatures for malware identification across the software supply chain. Despite its pervasive use, the open-source YARA ecosystem remains characterized by ad-hoc...

Introducing new Microsoft Defender for Cloud innovations to strengthen cloud-native protections

Security teams face an expanding attack surface as organizations increasingly use cloud-native services to develop, deploy, and manage applications across their multicloud and hybrid environments. Their challenge is compounded by incomplete visibility, siloed processes, and a lack of prioritized...

Why Replace Traditional Web Application Firewall (WAF) With New Age WAF?

At present, web applications have become the top targets for attackers because of potential monetization opportunities. Security breaches on the web application can cost millions. Strikingly, DNS Domain Name System related outage and Distributed denial of service DDoS lead a negative impact on...

New ‘Under the Radar’ report examines modern threats and future technologies

As if you haven't heard it enough from us, the threat landscape is changing. It's always changing, and usually not for the better. The new malware we see being developed and deployed in the wild have features and techniques that allow them to go beyond what they were originally able to do, either...

Search Engine Finds Vulnerable SCADA Systems

UPDATED: ICS-CERT, the emergency response team for industrial control systems, has warned companies that run SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software that the systems running it may be easily discovered using a free Web based search engine dubbed Shodan. The warning came in the for...