Next time you’re invited to a meeting, plan on being late – unless you want to give hackers access to your computer, network, or entire IT system. In the ongoing and ever-going battle against hackers, it’s come down to this; even responding to a meeting invitation can give hackers the in that they need to…
A new malicious campaign is targeting Japanese firms, Votiro has discovered, in collaboration with cybersecurity consulting and intelligence company, ClearSky. The new campaign consists of spam with attached malicious Excel workbooks, which, once opened, activate macros that utilize PowerShell to download and execute a second-stage payload. The spam may be in Japanese or English, but the…
Every family has a skeleton in its closet, one that often remains hidden for a long time. But sooner or later, them bones will begin talking – and when they do, they will sing loudly, indicting the people behind their troubles, and revealing to the world their perfidy and failings. For Microsoft, the latest skeleton…
The technology will now be available for use by government, healthcare and education providers in 27 countries. Votiro, global leader in content disarm and reconstruction technology, a solution that protects organizations against undisclosed, zero-day exploits and other ongoing cyber threats, announced today that it has received the Common Criteria Certification from the Australian Signals Directorate…
Credit card information is nice, and identity theft is a profitable industry – but for hackers, the big money is in industrial espionage. When hackers invade a corporate network, using their tricks to inveigle victims into granting them access to their computers via spear phishing campaigns aided by social engineering, it’s most often corporate secrets…
CISOs spanning the globe have prepared for the unknown coming our way in 2018. You’ve likely spent countless hours thinking, planning and taking extensive action to protect your company, but there’s one thing that remains a mystery … the infamous zero-day attack. As we embark upon a new year, with resolutions and goals abound, many…
Invoicing. Business documents. A meeting invitation. These days, the average employee receives countless incoming files, including emails with attachments, web downloads, and others, that have CISOs stressing around the clock about what he might click. Cyber criminals have tapped into yet another virtual weakness with one unsuspecting click that can be devastating to an organization….
AntiAmerican and anti-Israeli factions of the Anonymous collective recently declared that they would be launching attacks against any and all websites deemed to be Israelior U.S.government affiliated in their latest #OpIsrael campaign. The attacks come as the most recent of many campaigns that began back in 2013 on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, and since has…
Israeli cyber security firm Votiro has received accreditation from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) – an agency under the Department of Defence in Canberra – allowing the company to supply products to Australian government customers, including defence. Votiro, which specialises in content disarm and reconstruction technologies, said on 4 December that the ASD has provided the company with a…