Emergent threats, trends, and news annotated by some of the most well known and respected experts in the industry.
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| New Netgear Router Worries After Trustwave Warning Trustwave has found a flaw in Netgear routers that could give attackers complete control of their home Netgear routers. This raises concerns of these routers potentially being used in IoT DDoS attacks. The estimated number of affected routers is in the 100,000’s and could be in the millions. Dridex Returns With Windows UAC Bypass Method The banking Trojan Dridex has been on a six-month hiatus, it has returned with a Windows UAC bypass technique. A spear-phishing campaign has been discovered with document attachments that download Dridex, the documents are using macros to deliver the Trojan. |
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| Trump Set to Sign Cyber EO as Election Hack Fallout Continues President Trump may be signing an executive order on cybersecurity today. Information security has taken a high profile recently with purported Russian directed hacking in the 2016 election. The full details of these hacking attacks still need to be worked out, hopefully President Trump’s focus on cybersecurity will improve our government’s information security. |
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| ATM ‘Shimmers’ Target Chip-Based Cards The old strip cards had skimmers the new chip-based cards have shimmers to worry about. Brian Krebs goes through an example out of Canada that is targeting the new chip-based cards. The only reason this shimmer attack is working is that some banks are not using the full security features of the chip-based cards. |
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| Cerber, Locky, Kovter top malware families in 2016: Malwarebytes Malwarebytes gives a scary breakdown of 2016 malware, 70 percent of it was ransomware. The article gives an informative breakdown of malware 2016. These malware trends show no sign of slowing down in 2017. |