Ransomware demand in 2016 was around a billion dollars[1]. WannaCry[3] was the recent ransomware campaign that spread across 150 countries affecting 200,000 users. It is estimated that in 2017[2], damages due to ransomware will exceed $5 billion. Modern defenses make...
Since the dawn of time, deception has been used in nature in various forms as a successful survival strategy and has played an important role in the physical and behavioral adaptations of all organisms. Humankind, with its higher cognitive ability, has successfully...
Acalvio Threat Research Labs The WannaCry ransomware attack has made front page news around the world, with at least 150 countries and 200,000 customers affected [2]. Because WannaCry makes use of a largely unpatched Windows exploit for lateral movement, it is able to...
Acalvio Threat Labs Shamoon is one of the critical threats that has been able to penetrate traditional defenses successfully not once, twice, but thrice – in 2012, 2016 and 2017. The main purpose of Shamoon Threat Actor was the destruction of the endpoint...
Using deception as a threat detection solution would seem to be a no-brainer: It can detect malware at multiple points in the kill chain, with no false positives and no modifications or impact to production systems. Everyone must be doing it you would think....
Recently, an interesting survey pointed out that malware attacks are going fileless. In some cases, this means even using an internal employee to help with the process. For example, the attack on the Bank of Bangladesh and you quickly realize that advanced attackers...
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