The COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us to quickly adjust to the new normal — case and point,  admitted that they switched to digital activities like online banking, social networking, and online shopping in 2020 out of convenience. Research now shows that consumers’ reliance on this technology is here to stay. PwC found that 44% of global consumers now shop more using their smartphones compared to when COVID-19 began. While having the world at your fingertips is convenient, how does this digital lifestyle change expose users to cyber threats, especially…

CSO Online | Jul 9, 2021 As AI deployments proliferate for better decision making, they also present risks across a large spectrum – from job displacement and socioeconomic inequality, to automated bias, to data poisoning, privacy violations, and AI threats used by bad actors. At the same time, AI itself is becoming an emerging and key ingredient for organizations to better defend against attack. Join us as we discuss how to put AI’s risks into…

This blog was written by Vallabh Chole & Oliver Devane Over the years, the cybersecurity industry has seen many threats get taken down, such as the Emotet takedown in January 2021. It doesn’t usually take long for another threat to attempt to fill the gap left by the takedown. Hancitor is one such threat. Like Emotet, Hancitor can send Malspams to spread itself and infect as many users as possible. Hancitor’s main purpose is to…

This blog was written by Kiran Raj & Kishan N. Introduction In the last few years, Microsoft Office macro malware using social engineering as a means for malware infection has been a dominant part of the threat landscape. Malware authors continue to evolve their techniques to evade detection. These techniques involve utilizing macro obfuscation, DDE, living off the land tools (LOLBAS), and even utilizing legacy supported XLS formats. McAfee Labs has discovered a new technique…

Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a new malware used by the WildPressure APT group to targets both Windows and macOS systems. The WildPressure was spotted for the first time in August 2019 when researchers detected a never-before-seen malware, dubbed Milum, that had no similarities with other samples analyzed by the experts. The Trojan was written in C++ and was employed attacks aimed at organizations from the Middle East. At least some of them are related to industrial sector….