Posts of category: Cybercrime

The end of Emotet

We've all pretty much gotten used to the fact that malware isn’t likely to go away any time soon. Malware only usually makes the headlines these days if it causes substantial damage or is particularly severe. During the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve mostly heard about malware ...

The SolarWinds Hack – Pearl Harbor without planes

As if 2020 wasn’t unpleasant enough, the SolarWinds hack added fuel to the fire right at the end of the year. A – presumably – state-sponsored hacker group managed to break into the product repositories of the software manufacturer SolarWinds...

SASE – a cloud-based model for network security beyond the data center

SASE emerged as a new buzzword in forums and company presentations during the end of 2019. SASE, pronounced ‘Sassy’, stands for Security Access Service Edge. Put simply, it is an efficient way of combining management and security functions in the cloud and existing data centers ...

Phishing is dead, long live smishing

In fact, the title of this post is misleading, phishing is unfortunately far from being dead and buried. Cybercriminals continue to use all sorts of tricks to get their victims to click on malicious links or malware. A recent study by OpenText into phishing/scam emails and cyber ...

Full points for DNS vulnerability SIGRed on the CVSS scale

Sometimes finishing with 10 out of 10 points is a reason for celebration. Unfortunately, in this case, things are different. A newly discovered vulnerability in Windows DNS servers, SIGRed has achieved an ominous 10.0 out of 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) ...

Coronavirus might be here or there but the money comes from ransomware

Although the title of this post is probably not the world’s greatest contribution to rhyming poetry, it remains true. Even though the world is busy dealing with the impact of the coronavirus, ransomware authors are still busy and generating serious money. Three years after ...