Connecting the dots between recently active cryptominers
Post authored by David Liebenberg and Andrew Williams. Executive Summary Through Cisco Talos’ investigation of illicit cryptocurrency mining...
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Black Hat Europe 2018
Black Hat Europe 2018 activity in the NOC was exciting from the first day and it never let up through the week.
Threat Roundup for Dec. 7 to Dec. 14
A summary of the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats.
Bitcoin Bomb Scare Associated with Sextortion Scammers
This blog was written by Jaeson Schultz. Organizations across the country are on edge today after a flurry of phony bomb threats hit several public entities Thursday, such as universities,...
How Stealthwatch Cloud protects against the most critical Kubernetes vulnerability to-date, CVE-2018-1002105
The increasing popularity of traditional cloud computing technologies such as server-less, on-demand compute and containerized environments has made technologies like Kubernetes part of our daily vernacular as it relates to...
You’ve Got (Compromised) Mail!
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have been affected by Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams and those who don’t know they have been hit with...
Nearly every threat is either on an endpoint, or it’s headed there
This is because the endpoint is, well, the end. That is where data resides; where individuals organize, communicate, and conduct nearly all activities of their lives; and is often considered...
Cryptomining: A sheep or a wolf?
One of, if not the, most prominent motivators for threat actors is money. Whether it’s botnet owners renting out their services for DDoS attacks, tech support scammers cold-calling people to...
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