ElasticSearch Hit by Ransom Attack Overview Last week, over 34,000 vulnerable MongoDB databases fell victim to a recent ransom attack. Data residing on these databases was erased or encrypted and bitcoin payment was demanded in lieu for data return. Moreover, on Jan 18th 2017, several hundred ElasticSearch servers were hit...
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Gazing into our Crystal Ball – 2017 Cybersecurity Predictions
By: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS Cyber extortion and attacks can take many forms – from ransomware to DDoS shakedowns and data-dump blackmail, organizations all over the globe have been directly impacted by these campaigns in 2016. This year we saw the first DDoS attack exceeding 1Tbps in size...
Case Study: Thwarting 100,000+ Attacks on the G20 Summit, the NSFOCUS Experience
By: Dr. Richard Zhao, SVP of Global Threat Research, NSFOCUS In September 2016, prominent world leaders representing the top 20 global economies gathered together in Hangzhou, China to kick off the 11th meeting of Group of Twenty (G20). This year marked the first time that the event was hosted in...
Threat Intelligence: What It Is and How to Use It Effectively
By: Anil Nandigam, Sr. Director, Product Marketing, NSFOCUS In today’s cyber landscape, decision makers constantly question the value of their security investments, asking whether each dollar is helping secure the business. Meanwhile, cyber attackers are growing smarter and more capable every day. Today’s security teams often find themselves falling behind,...
Threat Intelligence – You can’t complete the picture, if you don’t have the missing piece.
Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS Over the last year, the cybersecurity industry has been abuzz about this new thing called “threat intelligence”. However, threat intelligence (intel) as a whole is not really that new. Threat intel was probably used in every military-like campaign going back to the...
Advanced Persistent Threats – A Simple Analogy
Author: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS One of the things that amazes me the most is how the general population lacks a firm understanding of the cyber threats they face daily. Since few people outside of security circles have actually been trained in cyber security, the general lack...
