By: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS On May 15th, the NHS (UK’s National Health Service) suffered its single worst disruption to service in the history of the organisation. The disruption was due to a type of malicious software, known as ransomware, with the purpose of attempting to extort money from victims by encrypting their […]
By: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS It’s no secret that DDoS attacks are on the rise. Statistic-after-statistic, report-after-report, all say the same thing about DDoS. However, who are the companies that have perfected the technology, tactics, techniques, and procedures used in front-lines to defeat DDoS attacks every day? NSFOCUS is one such company that […]
Author: Cody Mercer – Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher Executive Overview A new mobile banking Trojan titled ‘Swearing Trojan’ has been discovered by Tencent Security and Checkpoint researchers. The odd name of the malware is in part attributed to the various Chinese swear words sparsely distributed in the source code. The primary attributes associated with the […]
Intelligent Hybrid DDoS defence provider claims Top prize for Security Solution of the Year London, UK – 31 March 2017 – NSFOCUS, the intelligent hybrid DDoS defence provider, has been awarded the Security Solution of the Year at the European IT & Software Awards 2017 (www.iteawards.com) – the leading pan-European awards for ISVs, Solution Providers […]
Author: Cody Mercer – Senior Threat Intelligence Research Analyst Executive Overview A newly discovered modified version of Dridex, now termed ‘Dridex v4’, has been recognized in the wild in recent days. The upgraded version of the Dridex Trojan was at one time one of the most successful bank Trojans originally discovered in 2014 and has […]
Overview Dahua Technology, a well-known security camera and digital video recorder (DVR) vendor in China, released firmware updates to address serious security vulnerabilities for several of their products. By exploiting this vulnerability an attacker can access the user database of a Dahua camera without needing administrative privileges and extract the user name and password hash. […]
Threat Intelligence platform defends against sophisticated cyber attacks SYDNEY, March 17, 2017 – NSFOCUS, a global provider of intelligent hybrid DDoS defences, today announced its launch into Australia. The company believes it is uniquely placed to defend against cyber-attacks from China. Recent reports have indicated that up to 40 percent of global cyber-attacks are associated […]
Author: Cody Mercer – Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher Executive Summary It would appear that a new variant titled ‘StoneDrill‘ has now hit the wild and conducts operations very similar to that of Shamoon 2.0 and Shamoon malware. Moreover, Kaspersky Labs has evaluated the source code and it appears to contain various source code line items […]
Overview Apache Struts2 is prone to a remote code execution vulnerability (CNNVD-201703-152) in the Jakarta Multipart parser plug-in. When uploading a file with this plug-in, an attacker could change the value of the Content-Type header field of an HTTP request to trigger this vulnerability, causing remote code execution. For details, visit the following link: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/S2-045?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0 […]
Intelligent Hybrid DDoS defence provider shortlisted for an impressive three awards London, UK- March 2017 – NSFOCUS, the intelligent hybrid DDoS defence provider, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Public Sector & Utilities Solution of the Year, Security Vendor of the Year, and Security Solution of the Year categories for the European IT […]
