The sandbox, last line of defense for many networks, isn’t what it used to be. Watch Votiro’s researcher, Amit Dori, shows how attackers can bypass sandbox security, inserting malicious code on servers without getting flagged, by taking advantage of basic rules of how VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) macros and sandboxes operate. If once a...
Ransomware continues to plague companies as the remote and hybrid workforce models leave new attack vectors. Research notes a 715% year-over-year increase in ransomware during 2020. Now that most disaster recovery and business continuity plans include robust data backup strategies, cyber attackers use a combined ransomware approach that both encrypts data and steals data. The...
Active Content: What It Is & How It Becomes Malicious
Modern business processes rely on sharing information across the cloud. Your users are emailing documents and uploading files to shared drives as part of their jobs. Ensuring safe, secure, clean files is now mission-critical. Employees know that they shouldn’t open attached files when they don’t know the person sending them, but phishing emails aren’t the...
What is a Secure Email Gateway? Your Complete Guide
This article will focus on Secure Email Gateways, explaining the benefits of this technology as well as raising awareness about its drawbacks. With 3.9 billion global email users in 2019 – and that number projected to rise to 4.48 billion by 2024 – email has become the channel of choice for hackers seeking to carry...
What is Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR)? Everything You Need to Know
Content Disarm and Reconstruction, Content Disarm and Reconstruct, and CDR are all terms used for a technology that can eliminate all file-borne threats. In this article, we provide an overview of what CDR is, how it’s used, the history and evolution of the technology, its pros and cons, and how a new technology—Positive Selection technology—takes...
