Authored by: Alexander Sevtsov Edited by: Stefano Ortolani Introduction It’s not news that the cryptocurrency industry is on the rise. Mining crypto coins offers to anybody a lucrative way to exchange computation resources for profit: every time a miner guesses the solution of a complex mathematical puzzle, he is awarded...
In April we launched the first of our Malscape Monitor reports, for the fourth quarter of 2017. The report analyzes data from our Global Threat Intelligence Network (GTIN) to provide several insights and benchmarks on encounter rates with malware that CISOs can use to measure their own...
Understanding how malware works, and in particular, the strategies and tactics most often used by malware authors is vitally important for cybersecurity professionals. In other blog posts, Lastline provides a brief history of malware and basic malware types. In this post, we’ll look at some...
One could argue that cybercriminals had a real break-out year in 2017. Huge data breaches, new malware techniques, and some headline-grabbing attacks. Our top 10 blog posts demonstrate the interest in what the bad guys are up to, and how to defend against it. From...
Over the last few years, we’ve seen a number of families of malware written specifically for the Mac OS X operating system. There was Flashback, and more recently the KeRanger ransomware. We’ve also seen more targeted attacks where Mac OS X malware was written to...
We’re proud that Lastline Enterprise has excelled again in the NSS Labs Breach Detection System (BDS) group test. If you’re not familiar with NSS Labs, it is the world’s largest independent security testing and research organization, conducting challenging independent tests of security products for over...
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...
