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Modern malware is increasingly leveraging evasive behaviors
2020-02-27 05:30

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.

Identifying evasive threats hiding inside the network
2019-08-22 03:23

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’s ThreatSync detects and remediates zero day threats and evasive malware
2019-07-26 03:30

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...

Evasive Malware, Meet Evasive Phishing
2018-12-28 15:38

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...

Evasive Malware Now a Commodity
2018-05-04 05:26

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...

Beat Them at Their Own Game: Understanding and Neutralizing Evasive Malware Tactics in the Face of Rising Attacks
2018-03-16 12:34

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

Locky Ransomware Learns New Evasive Tricks (Threatpost)
2016-10-20 17:57

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