The past few years, the major studios and production companies that create movies, broadcast television, streaming content, and even online and video games have been under cyber attack.
The past few years, the major studios and production companies that create movies, broadcast television, streaming content, and even online and video games have been under cyber attack.
Tags: cyber attacks, ransomware, phishing attack, isolation, malicious code, malware
The holiday shopping season kicks off this week with Black Friday (November 24 th) and Cyber Monday (November 27 th). And, if it’s any indication of how much online shopping will occur, last year (2016), Cyber Monday set a new sales record of $3.45 billion USD!
Tags: cyber attacks, phishing, cyber Monday, Black Friday, isolation, isolation platform, malware
Last month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security directed federal agencies to begin employing enhanced security methods and protocols on all government email accounts. This action is an effort to halt the impersonation of U.S. government email domains, referred to as spoofing, by attackers intent on deploying a dizzying array of cyber attacks typically initiated by a phishing campaign. Given that many reports place the start of a cyber attack squarely on phishing campaigns—some reports place the figure at over 90% of cyberattacks are as the result of phishing—it makes sense that the DHS would require greater email security for federal government email accounts and inboxes.
Tags: DMARC, cyber attacks, cyber security, phishing attack, isolation
If you are in the financial services community, you are likely well-aware of and well-acquainted with SWIFT and the services it performs. As a quick primer for the uninitiated, SWIFT is an acronym for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, a cooperative built over forty years ago by banks and financial institutions globally to address a mutual problem: A better, more secure, and automated way to communicate inter-bank payments across borders. SWIFT addressed this common issue, and today, it is a world-leading provider of secure messaging services for over 11,000 banks, financial organizations, and enterprises in over 200 countries.
Tags: SWIFT, cyber attacks, phishing, spear-phishing, malware, isolation technology, isolation platform
I think we’ve blogged a few times now on the risks of JavaScript and the role it plays in browser-based cyber attacks. We’ve recently seen the details of the Pornhub attack, where malicious adverts were used to target users visiting the Pornhub website and served up fake browser updates as another in a very long list of malvertising attacks.
Tags: javascript, cyber threats, coinhive, cyber attacks, isolation technology
Spear phishing attacks continue to plague businesses of all sizes, across all sectors. Detection of these messages remains an impossible feat. Spear phishing messages plague everyone and their intent ranges from delivering malware or ransomware, to stealing passwords and personal information, such as bank account information. All of these things have a high value in the online criminal world, hence why spear phishing is the most popular tool in the cyber attack arsenal today.
Tags: spear-phishing, anti-phishing, cyber attacks, cyber security, ransomware, cyber training
Lately, instances of malware with built-in worm functionality have been on the rise. The WannaCry cyberattack is a perfect example. Although the malware was classified as ransomware, to increase the number of infections, the attackers used an SMB exploit to propagate it laterally within enterprises.
Tags: malware, worm, wannacry, cyber attacks, cyber threats, ransomware, Houdini, remote access trojan, isolation, web isolation
While Black Hat USA 2017 ended three weeks ago, I wanted to share my thoughts and experiences on my very first Black Hat USA 2017 after being in security for 15+ years.
Tags: Black Hat Conference, black hat, Ichthyology, cyber attacks, cyber theft, cybersecurity, cyber training, authentication and application security, phishing training, phishing attacks, credential theft, malware, ransomware, spearphishing, isolation
Another week, another massive cyber attack hits the world. Since the Wikileaks share, powerful new hacking tools are readily available to anyone in the world. This will not be the last attack leveraging these newly available weapons.
Tags: cyber attacks, cybersecurity, cyber threats, ransomware, isolation, remote browsers, anti-phishing, security strategy, WannaCrypt, GoldenEye, bitcoin
If you find it challenging to prioritize which security innovations to implement this year, this latest Gartner report can help. It names Menlo Security as a 2017 Cool Vendor for Security for Mid-Size Enterprise, and explains how any resource-constrained IT team can use browser isolation to reduce exposure to malware and phishing attacks.
Tags: cyber attacks, spear-phishing, anti-phishing, isolation, cybersecurity, gartner, browser-based attacks, browser, remote browsing, email threats
