Security

Credit to Author: Keith Rayle| Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:59:00 +0000

In today’s digital business environment, we are seeing cyberattacks grow in both number and sophistication. The financial services industry in particular is continuously under attack due to the value of its data and the holes in current defense systems. Developing countries are attempting to solidify their place in the global economy by expanding their digital presences and connecting to worldwide financial networks. The security posture of the broader environment can be at risk due to their lack of proper security controls. One recent…

Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:15:52 +0000

FortiGuard Labs recently captured some malware which was developed with the Microsoft .Net framework. I analyzed one of them, and in this blog, I’m going to show you how it is able to steal information from a victim’s machine. The malware was spread via a Microsoft Word document that contained an auto-executable malicious VBA Macro. Figure 1 below shows how it looks when it’s opened. Figure 1. When the malicious Word document is opened What the VBA code does Once you click the “Enable Content”…

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:59:00 +0000

For many organizations, embracing the potential of the new digital economy involves migrating services, data, and infrastructure to the cloud. The cloud is a powerfully disruptive technology. It allows businesses to be more agile, responsive, and available than ever before by transforming traditional compute architectures and best practices that have been in place for decades. Most organizations today have some sort of a cloud strategy. Nearly all of them are adopting a hybrid cloud infrastructure that combines their private cloud with one or…

Credit to Author: Margarette Joven| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:05:00 +0000

Yesterday, a new ransomware wreaked havoc across the world. This new malware variant, which combines the functionality of ransomware with the behaviors of a worm, is being called Petya, Petrwrap, and even NotPetya, since researchers are still investigating as to whether its ability to modify the Master Boot Record of a targeted machine is based on the Petya family of malware. Fortinet has designated this new hybrid form of malware as a ransomworm, and this outbreak was reported to use the same worm mechanism to spread across the Internet as WannaCry,…