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Cybersecurity researchers today highlighted an evasive phishing technique that attackers are exploiting in the wild to target visitors of several sites with a quirk in domain names, and leverage modified favicons to inject e-skimmers and steal payment card information covertly. Called an internationalized domain name homograph attack, the technique has been used by a Magecart group on multiple domains to load the popular Inter skimming kit hidden inside a favicon file.

Evasive malware has grown to record high levels, with over two-thirds of malware detected by WatchGuard in Q4 2019 evading signature-based antivirus solutions. Companies of all sizes need to deploy advanced anti-malware solutions that can detect and block these attacks.

Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors, a new report by VMware Carbon Black released at RSA Conference 2020 has revealed. Nearly 50 percent of both IT and security respondents reported being understaffed with security respondents noting their teams are currently 48 percent understaffed and IT teams are 26 percent understaffed.

There is no greater security risk to an organization than a threat actor that knows how to operate under the radar. Malicious insiders and external cybercriminals are getting savvier. They are...

WatchGuard Technologies has announced major updates to its threat correlation and response platform, ThreatSync, with the latest release of Threat Detection and Response (TDR). These enhancements...

In a previous column, I wrote about how evasive malware has become commoditized and described how the techniques being used in any given piece of malware had grown in number and sophistication—the...

I’ve been deconstructing malware for over 20 years, and it turns out I’ve chosen a profession where it’s hard to feel in a rut -- so much of what is happening with malware continues to feel...

If there is any hope of disarming modern and well-equipped attackers, we have to beat them at their game.

Microsoft malware researchers say Locky ransomware authors are changing tactics again to evade detection.