Research & Reports

Moving Swiftly from Makeshift Remedies to Routine: A Thought on Security Operations

February 15, 2022 | Jie Ji

On December 9, 2021, the Log4j vulnerability was disclosed and had a huge impact. According to monitoring of NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence, hundreds of thousands of assets were affected by the vulnerability. A week after the vulnerability was disclosed, the NTI detected tens of thousands of malicious IP addresses using the Log4j vulnerability to launch various […]

Russian APT Group Gamaredon Launches Phishing Campaign against Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

February 10, 2022 | Jie Ji

Recently, NSFOCUS Security Labs captured a fishing document with the theme “ПАРТНЕРИ КУЛЬТУРНОЇ ДИПЛОМАТІЇ МЗС УКРАЇНИ” (Cultural Diplomatic Partner of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and confirmed that the producer of the document was Gamaredon, a Russia-based advanced persistent threat group. The phishing document contains highly credible bait content, and uses a payload protection method […]

APT Retrospection: Lorec53, An Active Russian Hack Group Launched Phishing Attacks Against Georgian Government

February 8, 2022 | Jie Ji

Summary In July 2021, several phishing documents created in Georgian were discovered by NSFOCUS Security Labs. In these phishing documents, the attackers used current political hotspots in Georgia to create bait and deliver a secret stealing Trojan to specifically targeted victims aiming to steal various documents from their computers. Correlation analysis shows that this phishing […]

SASE Popular Science Series – Understanding SD-WAN

February 1, 2022 | Jie Ji

SASE (Security Access Services Edge) is a SaaS service that integrates security and network (To learn about what the SASE is, read SASE, Born for Digital Age). It incorporates too many new concepts. To make it easier to understand, we decided to post the popular science series on SASE, which can simplify the concepts so […]

DDoS Attacks Have Entered Terabit Era

January 29, 2022 | Jie Ji

MILPITAS, Calif. – January 28, 2022 – NSFOCUS, a leader in holistic hybrid security solutions, today released the 2021 Global DDoS Attack Landscape, a joint report by working with Tencent, which found that DDoS attacks have entered the terabit era with the largest DDoS traffic peaked at 2.4 Tbps (or 3.25 Tbps according the latest news […]

Cutting-Edge Technologies Empowering Data Sharing and Computing Between Enterprises

January 19, 2022 | Jie Ji

Compliance has seen radical changes in the requirements and driving force of data security and a broader category of data objects under data security protection. Application scenarios covered by data security will become more diversified, and data security requirements will cover all phases of the data lifecycle. In order to better cope with the challenges […]

Cutting-Edge Technologies Empowering Data Security Governance Within Enterprises

January 5, 2022 | Jie Ji

Compliance has seen radical changes in the requirements and driving force of data security and a broader category of data objects under data security protection. Application scenarios covered by data security will become more diversified, and data security requirements will cover all phases of the data lifecycle. In order to better cope with the challenges […]

Analysis of Log4j2 0-Day Vulnerability from the Perspective of Supply Chain

December 23, 2021 | Jie Ji

The outbreak of Log4j2 vulnerability has caused an uproar all over the world, with a wide range of influence and great harm second to none. The event is a typical supply chain event caused by open source software. The vulnerability of upstream software affects the products of downstream industries. The complex dependency expands the scope […]

Cutting-Edge Technologies Empowering Security and Compliance of User Privacy Data

December 8, 2021 | Jie Ji

Compliance has seen radical changes in the requirements and driving force of data security and a broader category of data objects under data security protection. Application scenarios covered by data security will become more diversified, and data security requirements will cover all phases of the data lifecycle. In order to better cope with the challenges […]

Compliance-driven Data Security

November 30, 2021 | Jie Ji

In the big data era, data receives more and more attention. Deep integration of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) has produced a profound and widespread impact on all walks of life, including government, finance, carriers, electricity, and the Internet. In addition, the circulation and release of data value have further promoted the development of […]