Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
In November 2016, we observed the reemergence of destructive attacks associated with the 2012 Shamoon attack campaign. We covered this attack in detail in our blog titled Shamoon 2: Return of the Disttrack Wiper, which targeted a single organization in Saudi Arabia and was set to wipe systems on November 17, 2016. Since our previous [...]
The use of threat intelligence to defend networks against attacks is on the rise. Threat intelligence consists of evidence-based and actionable knowledge about attacks. As members of the security arena chip in to share threat intelligence, this poses a new challenge: wrangling threat intelligence from multiple sources into a single format that a security platform [...]
With the dawn of 2017, ransomware continues to emerge as a top security threat. This form of attack that encrypts and locks computer files and devices until a ransom is paid looms ominously over large companies, SMEs and even individuals. Ransomware is part of the top 10 security threat predictions by various analysts and security [...]
