Malware continues to evolve and to fool most sandboxes. It will frequently take an alternate approach to accomplish an old objective – the same wolf in a different set of sheep’s clothing. As covered in a previous blog, Evasive Malware’s Gone Mainstream, advanced malware contains numerous...
In February Cisco released their 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report, which is a comprehensive look at how malware operates and what enterprises are doing to defend themselves. From the long list of data and findings presented, we have pulled out those that we think IT teams...
Freely available, public networks are a huge asset to the world, and they get plenty of use. One global supplier of software for public networks, Purple Wi-Fi, reports that almost half of us who carry a laptop, tablet, or smart phone, will connect to a...
At Lastline we take great pride in our partnerships and ability to integrate with other security tools. For example, with more than 90 percent of data breaches attributed to phishing schemes, our partnership with PhishMe provides a critical degree of added protection against such attacks. Lastline...
In a previous blog, titled Evasive Malware – The Art of Doing Nothing, we covered how advanced malware evades detection by stalling and postponing all malicious activity whenever a sandbox is detected. In today's blog, we'll look at another sophisticated evasion technique...
Advanced malware uses a number of techniques to avoid being detected by a sandbox. One method is to stall. When a malicious object discovers that it's under evaluation, it will postpone evil behavior until the sandbox times out. The malware simply hides its...
At Lastline we're frequently asked how our technology is able to analyze 100% of the actions performed by a program or other object. The answer is rooted in our Deep Content Inspection technology. Not all malware analysis environments are alike. Lastline's Deep...
There's no question that cybercriminals benefit from the knowledge, tools, and experience of other hackers. They often band together to form powerful crime rings, sharing their techniques and the latest network vulnerability information. If we are to be successful battling these formidable adversaries, the security industry...
One of the common misconceptions regarding a conventional sandbox is how much it can actually observe when evaluating an object for malicious behavior. Because a conventional sandbox runs in an isolated virtual machine environment, an object can safely execute without risk of...
Exploit Kits are a serious cyber threat today and are responsible for the vast majority of malware infections worldwide. Exploit kits are sophisticated but malicious programs designed and distributed by cyber criminals. They help fraudsters, hackers, and data thieves breach an organization's...
