A Cybersecurity Ventures report indicates ransomware costs will exceed $5 billion in 2017, up from $325 million in 2015–what can be done from preventing these attacks from happening? Late last month, another ransomware attack slammed Ukraine and Russia–the second major one since the NotPetya attack in June–igniting speculation that the severity of these attacks are only going to get worse from…

It’s rabbit season – BadRabbit, that is, the bastard spawn of ransomware Petya/NotPetya that was just discovered on Monday, and has since hopped its way around the world, taking down servers in Russia and Ukraine before moving onto Turkey, Asia, and the United States. What’s different in this attack is that BadRabbit abuses DiskCryptor, a…

We’ve all heard about malicious macros in Office documents right? By now it is a well known fact that macros might be malicious and as such, might infect unsuspecting victims upon execution. Security solutions are aware of the “macro risk” and are monitoring and analyzing incoming documents for such malicious macros. What if I were…

Highly paid professional hackers often operate like a ‘regular’ business when they come together. Sales and marketing. ROI. Quarterly performance statements. Reports to investors. And, salaries, bonuses, expense accounts, and petty cash for employee birthday parties. It’s all part of the day-to-day running of a business – any business, including those in the hacking industry. And a…

Sales and marketing. ROI. Quarterly performance statements. Reports to investors. And, salaries, bonuses, expense accounts, and petty cash for employee birthday parties. It’s all part of the day-to-day running of a business — any business, including those in the hacking industry. And a big industry it is: Hacking “companies” can be worth many millions, and a good hacker can…

Over the last few weeks, we collaborated with ClearSky and uncovered several indicators that were researched and found to be related to a new hacking campaign targeting large Vietnamese organisations. This campaign was found to be connected to the same party which previously targeted Vietnam Airlines and some other high profile targets possibly led by the Chinese 1937CN group. In this post we…

Attack details A new strain of ransomware has been discovered in-the-wild – and it features some unique tricks to keep itself below antivirus and security solutions.The infection chain most likely begins with an email containing a Windows Script File (WSF) attachment. We say “most likely” because no such email has surfaced yet – but as…

Led by support for protection against AutoCAD malware, the new release drives forward Votiro’s vision of delivering products best suited to the needs of its customers in specific geographic markets across range of industries. Read more here.