Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service helps Windows and other programs quietly deliver updates in the background, without taxing your network bandwidth. Unfortunately, cyber criminals have also figured out how to exploit it to continually reinstall malware on a cleaned computer. Watch the video below to learn more. (Episode Runtime: 4:08) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
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Analyzing a Fileless Malware Loader
Thanks to WatchGuard’s Panda Adaptive Defense 360 zero-trust service, WatchGuard Threat Lab was able to identify and stop a sophisticated fileless malware loader before execution on the victim’s computer. Upon further detailed analysis by our attestation team, we identified several recent browser vulnerabilities that the malware targeted as part of its exploit chain. Malware … [Read more...]
Does Your Network Box Block All Malware
Last week, researchers at Mimecast posted an article that detailed an increase in the LimeRAT malware hidden in Excel spreadsheets. If you’ve followed our quarterly security reports, you’ll remember we have also found an increase in the use of Excel spreadsheets to release malware. Find out more about this increase of malware in Excel in our latest … [Read more...]
Defeat Cryptojacking Malware with Responsive Automation
Responsive automation makes it possible to shorten time to detection and accelerate response by automating processes that typically require a skilled security analyst. For my money, there are few better examples of the value of responsive automation than the threat of cryptojacking malware. Cryptojacking malware infects a system with the goal of generating Bitcoins using the … [Read more...]
Brexit Email Tricks Users Into Downloading Malware
Recently, some individuals received emails that used Brexit to trick them into opening malicious office document attachments. The document’s authors must have been watching the news carefully because the file’s name was Brexit 15.11.2018.docx and the emails came around the same time as the release of the Brexit plan. Looking at the Document, we see the author of the document is … [Read more...]
