Digital criminals are innovating all the time, making them an even more formidable enemy. They’ve begun embracing automated intelligence to learn how a target system’s defenses work and to blend in with normal network activity. They borrow code from successful threats like Mirai to develop...
Everywhere I look, someone’s talking about machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI). These two technologies are shaping important conversations in multiple sectors, especially marketing and sales, and are at risk of becoming overused and misunderstood buzzwords. The technologies are also drawing the attention of...
In January 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) classified electoral systems as “critical infrastructure.” Then-DHS head Jeh Johnson promised the designation wouldn’t mean “a federal takeover, regulation, oversight or intrusion concerning elections in this country.” He said it would instead make electoral systems’...
Following the fallout of the Mirai botnet, security has risen to the top of the agenda for organizations buying connected devices. Organizations now understand the need to analyze IoT device code for lingering vulnerabilities. However, IoT firmware is binary, and typically vendors don’t share the...
In recent years, machine learning has made tremendous strides in the fight against cybercrime. But it’s not foolproof, and criminals have developed techniques to undermine its effectiveness. In today’s adversarial environment, organizations must deploy technologies that are resilient to attacks against machine learning. Machine Learning—Amazing, but...
As in recent years, 2017 has been marked by an increasing number of cyberattacks, and indications point to another tumultuous year as we head into 2018. With companies storing more data in the cloud and the number of Internet-connected devices rapidly increasing, the appeal and opportunity...
Breach Detection Systems (BDS) trap attacks that display sufficient evidence of a possible breach, but are at risk of false positives when the sensitivity level is set too low. Hunting attacks with anomaly detection systems can detect the attacks that are not trapped by the...
Executable compression, aka “packing,” is a means of compressing an executable file and combining the compressed data with decompression code into a single executable. Malware Packing Throughout the years, anti-malware vendors have educated their users about polymorphic malware. This kind of malware has mechanisms to “repackage” itself...
One would be surprised to find how much hacking and malware analysis have in common. On the surface, they seem like two completely different tasks: hacking is all about identifying flaws in computer systems with the goal of bypassing their security. Malware analysis, instead, has as...
Lastline’s solutions analyze network traffic, programs, documents, and other artifacts to identify and block advanced malware in enterprise networks. In order to be able to easily integrate its functionality in the security workflow of the enterprise, Lastline products provide access to their functionality through...
