Security

Bisonal is a remote access trojan (RAT) that’s part of the Tonto Team arsenal. The peculiarity of the RAT is that it’s been in use for more than 10 years — this is an uncommon and long period for malware. Over the years, it has evolved and adapted mechanisms to avoid detection while keep…

Security Reimagined — Solving an Old Problem with a New Approach A decade ago this January, Steve Jobs challenged the conventional wisdom about tablets, unveiling the iPad with the words, “What this device has done is extraordinary.” Coming on the heels of iPhone’s smashing success three years earli…

It’s no secret that companies that are investing in applications are rising competitively and having greater customer reach. However, applications have become the number one target for breaches and attacks. Let’s face it, modern applications are hard to protect, and vulnerabilities seem to be out of…

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between Feb 21 and Feb 28. As with previous roundups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavioral ch…

29.3 billion – that’s the approximate number of devices and network connections estimated globally by 2023, according to the latest Cisco Annual Internet Report. As we get more connected, we can expect to see a massive rise in cybersecurity threats – a trend that is predicted to double from 9 millio…

Your Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) is up to date with the latest version. Your Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technology has all of the latest framework rules and automaton in place. Vulnerabilities and patches for hardware and software are all covered. Your Defense in Depth strategy app…

There are so many companies each year at the RSA Conference, it would be useful to have some analytics to help guide your time there; which of the 700 plus vendors should you try and spend time with to solve your current problems? Similarly, customers are trying to keep up with the growing list of t…

Detection of malware is a constant battle between the technologies designed to detect and prevent malware and the authors creating them. One common technique adversaries leverage is packing binaries. Packing an executable is similar to applying compression or encryption and can inhibit the ability o…

Everyone has a spam folder. It’s often disregarded as a dark, bottomless pit for fake emails from FedEx, pharmacy offers, and introductory emails from women far too amorous to be anything but fantastical. You’d be right to largely ignore this folder. Yet each day new emails end up in it. Most of us…