malware

September 13, 2018

SECURITY

In Pursuit of Invisibility: Fileless Malware

3 min read

A recent survey asked whether people would prefer to the ability to fly or to be invisible. Silly question, but why they chose what they did provided unique insights.

June 20, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

My Little FormBook

1 min read

Cisco Talos has been tracking a new campaign involving the FormBook malware since May 2018 that utilizes four different malicious documents in a single phishing email. FormBook is an inexpensive...

May 31, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

NavRAT Uses US-North Korea Summit As Decoy For Attacks In South Korea

1 min read

Talos discovered a malicious Hangul Word Processor (HWP) document targeting Korean users. If a malicious document is opened, a remote access trojan, "NavRAT," downloads with command execution and keylogging capabilities.

April 11, 2018

SECURITY

3 Non-Negotiables for an Effective Data Center Security & Workload Protection Strategy

4 min read

We know that big data is big business… And the use of on-premises and public cloud infrastructure is growing, according to the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark...

April 5, 2018

SECURITY

IcedID Banking Trojan Teams up with Ursnif/Dreambot for Distribution

1 min read

This post was authored by Ross Gibb, with research contributions from Daphne Galme of Cisco, and Michael Gorelik of Morphisec, a Cisco Security Technical Alliance partner.  In November 2017...

February 23, 2018

EDUCATION

The Surprisingly High Cost of Malware in Schools — And How to Stop It

1 min read

Compared to banks and enterprise corporations and government agencies, who would think that schools would be prime targets for cyberattacks? Surprisingly, education is actually the industry most at risk of...

February 12, 2018

THREAT RESEARCH

Olympic Destroyer Takes Aim At Winter Olympics

1 min read

The Winter Olympics this year is being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The Guardian, a UK Newspaper reported an article that suggested the Olympic computer systems suffered technical issues during...

December 15, 2017

SECURITY

Cryptojacking: Hijacking your computer resources

3 min read

Your internet connection is slower than usual, your PC is also very slow, and you notice that your CPU fan is running faster when you are on a given website. All the above symptoms indicate that you could be a victim of cryptojacking. This is a new kind of menace in which malicious users or […]