Time of death? A therapeutic postmortem of connected medicine
#TheSAS2017 presentation: Smart Medicine Breaches Its “First Do No Harm” Principle
At last year’s Security Analyst Summit 2017 we predicted that medical networks would be...
Somebody’s watching! When cameras are more than just ‘smart’
Every year the number of smart devices grows. Coffee machines, bracelets, fridges, cars and loads of other useful gadgets have now gone smart. We...
Masha and these Bears
Sofacy, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Tsar Team, is a prolific, well resourced, and persistent adversary. They are sometimes portrayed as wild...
The Slingshot APT FAQ
While analysing an incident which involved a suspected keylogger, we identified a malicious library able to interact with a virtual file system, which is...
The devil’s in the Rich header
In our previous blog, we detailed our findings on the attack against the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics. For this investigation, our analysts were provided...
Financial Cyberthreats in 2017
In 2017, we saw a number of changes to the world of financial threats and new actors emerging. As we have previously noted, fraud...
IoT hack: how to break a smart home… again
There can never be too many IoT gadgets – that’s what people usually think when buying yet another connected device with advanced functionality. From...
Tax refund, or How to lose your remaining cash
Every year, vast numbers of people around the globe relish the delightful prospect of filling out tax returns, applying for tax refunds, etc. Given...
A Slice of 2017 Sofacy Activity
Sofacy, also known as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Tsar Team, is a highly active and prolific APT. From their high volume 0day deployment to...
Spam and phishing in 2017
Figures of the year
The share of spam in mail traffic came to 56.63%, down 1.68% against 2016.
The biggest source of spam remains the US...
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Real-time malware defense: Leveraging AWS Network Firewall active threat defense
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Cybersecurity at the edge: Securing rugged IoT in mission-critical environments
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