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Tackling Gootkit’s Traps

Gootkit malware uses misleading code to hinder manual research and automated analysis. - Read more

Centrify’s Next Strategic Step Forward with Thoma Bravo

I am pleased as CEO and co-founder of Centrify to announce that Centrify has entered into a definitive agreement whereby Thoma Bravo, a leading high-growth private investment firm with a significant track record in cybersecurity, will acquire a majority interest in Centrify from our current venture capital investors led by Mayfield, Accel, Jackson Square Ventures and Index Ventures. We...

Defend Your Data Now with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework

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APT Trends Report Q2 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) began publishing summaries of the quarter’s private threat intelligence reports, in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the latest installment, focusing on the relevant activities that we observed during Q2 2018. These summaries are...

Cloud Security For The Healthcare Industry: A No-Brainer

The healthcare industry has become one of the likeliest to suffer cyber-attacks, and there’s little wonder why. Having the financial and personal information of scores of patients makes it a very appetizing target for attackers. Just over a year ago, the WannaCry ransomware attack wreaked havoc on the UK National Health Service (NHS), ultimately disrupting a third of its facilities and...

To crypt, or to mine – that is the question

Way back in 2013 our malware analysts spotted the first malicious samples related to the Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni family. That was the starting point for this long-lived Trojan family, which is still functioning to this day. During that time the malware writers have changed: the way their Trojans get keys (from locally generated to received from the C&C); the algorithms used (from using...

A Ticking Time Bomb: Understanding and Securing the Next Generation of Workers

It’s sometimes easy to forget that the younger employees of today are the managers of tomorrow. If we fail to understand how they use technology and perceive security and privacy, it will have a major bearing on the workforce of the future, and the long-term ability of organisations to withstand cyber threats. To shed some light on the issue, Centrify...

Back to Basics: Let’s Forget About the GDPR… For A Moment

At this point it’s fairly safe to assume that most everyone in the business of “data” has heard of the European Union (EU)-wide General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was signed into law in late April 2016; with the compliance deadline having come into effect on May 25, 2018. Clearly, this new regulation has significant implications for organizations across...

The Complete Guide to Container Security

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