By: Stephen Gates, Chief Research Intelligence Analyst, NSFOCUS Over the past year, the cyber security industry has changed significantly in the light of an innovative tool called “Threat Intelligence” (TI). Organizations of all sizes are beginning to gain understanding of the value of TI; however, there is some confusion concerning what organizations believe they are receiving […]
By: NSFOCUS Security Labs Overview The banking Trojan “Shifu” was discovered by the IBM counter fraud platform in April, 2015. Built on the Shiz source code, this Trojan employs techniques adopted by multiple notorious Trojans such as Zeus, Gozi, and Dridex. This particular Trojan targeted 14 banks in Japan and re-emerged in Britain compromising 10 […]
By: Dr. Richard Zhao, SVP of Global Threat Research, NSFOCUS Overview During the week of January 21, 2017, over 34,000 vulnerable MongoDB databases fell victim to a ransom attack. Data residing on these databases was erased or encrypted and bitcoin payment was demanded in lieu for return of the data. Moreover, on January 18th, 2017, […]
NSFOCUS has launched a new global cloud security platform. Its first offering based on this platform will focus on protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS). This first offering under the NSFOCUS Cloud umbrella is called NSFOCUS Cloud DPS. It will provide users with 1.2 terabits of capacity; access to global cloud centers in California, […]
