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October 9, 2019

How to Detect Software Supply Chain Attacks

What is a software supply chain? Simply put, the software supply chain is the entire lifetime of a software.

September 16, 2019

Digital Certificates - Models for Trust and Targets for Misuse

Blog 6: A New Kind of Certificate Fraud: Executive Impersonation

September 10, 2019

Mirai Botnet Continues to Plague IoT Space

With growing interest in the potential of IoT and connected things, attackers have found opportunities to exploit these devices. New malware and botnets are being specifically built to target IoT devices.

August 6, 2019

The PDF invoice that phished you

Phishing attacks are deception attempts that try to trick a person into clicking a link that leads to a credential-stealing page or a malicious application download. Relying on social engineering tactics, they have the potential to grant attackers unauthorized access to infrastructure, services, or information.

August 5, 2019

Catching lateral movement in internal emails

Email-based attacks are the most prominent threat vector that organizations see today. Like any other form of communication, emails get exploited to become carriers for a wide variety of attacks.

July 30, 2019

Ransomware in exotic email attachments

In the software arena, winning the mind share means becoming widespread to the point of being considered a de facto standard. And when it comes to the ways in which information is shared, this means being the object format everyone gravitates to. While aspirational for many software vendors, such success is impossible to predict, difficult to achieve, and challenging to maintain.

July 23, 2019

Catching deceptive links before the phish

A person may not necessarily have to be a security expert to know when the URL is a bit off. One might feel that the domain is unusually long, or that there are not that many popular websites ending with the top-level domain .services. But what if an average user saw one of these URLs next to a green lock and letters saying Secure? Would they stop to think twice?