Some time ago, I analyzed two similar samples of Android/Smsilence.A!tr.spy, a fake Vertu application that spies on its victim. One the samples was targeting a Japanese audience, while the other sample was for Korean end-users
Cyberattack Tracker Zeroes in on Firewall Vulnerabilities
Deutsche Telekom’s interactive, real-time map of global cyberattacks reveals the bulk of recent attacks – 27.3 million in February alone – were against the Server Message Block (SMB), aka the Common Internet File System (CIFS). Reuven Harrison, CTO and co-founder of Tufin, a security and lifecycle management company and Fortinet solution partner, wrote in a blog that the map’s revelations are significant.
W32/Kryptik.AX!tr – A Masterful FTP Trojan
A few days ago I received an interesting email message: Just your typical phishing email. Normally, I would just dump it into our signature automation processors and move on to the next piece of malicious code.
O-TTPS and You
At FortiGuard, we take our duty to protect our customers from threats, malware, zero-day exploits and other forms of cyberattacks very seriously.
Bitcoin and the ZeroAccess Botnet
Botnets for years have been leveraged as a cybercrime tool to commit any variety of nefarious activity ranging from Website defacement and DDoS to the proliferation of malware and theft of sensitive information. Lately, the cyber community can add one more to the list mining the digital currency Bitcoin.
Email, Privacy and You… a Look Inside SB 467
For geeks like me, 1986 was a great year… IBM unveiled their “PC Convertible laptop”, the “first MS-DOS virus, Brain,” was released, and the “Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)” was enacted. And, why is this so important? Because 27 years later, laptops, computer viruses and this piece of legislation all impact just about everyone in one way or another.
Analyst Commentary – Security Appliance Growth Continues
There was a flurry of news articles out recently highlighting some interesting data points from IDC. In particular, according to IDC, worldwide factory revenue from security appliances was up 7.2% year on year to $2.3 billion, as unit shipments increased 5.2% to 538,428. Granted, Q4 is generally the strongest quarter in the tech industry, so it should be no surprise to most to see a strong finish to the year
Android malware gets phish-y
Last week the security world was abuzz with news of a new attack vector for mobile attacks.
Windows XP-iration
After April 08,2014, the Extended Support for Windows XP will expire and Microsoft will cease to issue any more updates or patches. It will have a significant impact on Windows XP users, particularly in terms of vulnerabilities and exploits. If you just bought a computer recently and it came with a copy of Windows 7 or 8, you don’t need to worry about Microsoft’s Windows XP expiration deadline.
Spamhaus, Cyberbunker and the largest DDoS attack on Record
Botnet owners took a page out of Chef Emeril Legasse’s cookbook and ‘kicked it up a notch’ last week when they launched a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Internet spam fighter Spamhaus, content delivery provider CloudFlare and other Internet infrastructure providers. The Spamhaus Project provides blacklisting services to many ISPs and email servers around the world with the intent of stopping the billions of spam emails sent daily