Threat intelligence chat bots can perform research for you and can even be note takers or central aggregators of information. This year at Black Hat Asia 2018, we debut our threat intelligence chat bot “CyBot.” Find out how you can create your own CyBot in under an hour with our instructional sessions.
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CylancePROTECT Home Edition, the first next-generation security product designed for consumers that uses artificial intelligence to protect employees and their personal Windows and Mac devices, is now is now available for individual purchase by employees of Cylance corporate customers.
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Cylance is pleased to announce new releases of their prevention-focused security products, CylancePROTECT® and CylanceOPTICS™, delivering capabilities designed to further decrease the noise and clutter of the security stack.
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URSNIF is an infostealer that recently became the most active malware to hit the financial sector. URSNIF primarily targets banks but has been used to steal user credentials for email, private cloud access, e-commerce sites, and cryptocurrency trading.
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URSNIF (Gozi) is a multifaceted malware family with an emphasis on information stealing that has been leveraged to exfiltrate sensitive data from targets, and has been particularly pervasive throughout 2016 and 2017. Since 2007, variants of the malware have been detected in Europe, Japan, and Australia, with more recent outbreaks in the US and UK.
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This week in Security: Strava Labs releases their global heat map of fitness tracking app data, accidentally giving away potential locations of secret military bases in the process; the notorious Italian spyware development group, Hacking Team, makes another resurgence; and Facebook announces they have hired former White House policy director Nathaniel Gleicher to be their own director of cybersecurity policy.
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Hancock Regional Hospital in Indiana recently discovered that their computers had been infected with SamSam ransomware. The hospital made the difficult decision to pay the four Bitcoin ransom ($55,000 USD) in order to get their files decrypted… despite having full backups of all of the data that SamSam encrypted.
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After storming the globe with the Unbelievable and UNDRWRLD Tours, we are now bringing the events to you live! You're invited to an online event like no other as we continue to unearth the secrets of the cybercrime underworld.
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Data Privacy Day is January 28th, and it is designated as an annual effort to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust – three things that are very important to Cylance, our customers, investors, partners and employees.
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This week in Security: Researchers uncover a massive malvertising network that served up one billion ad impressions affecting 62% of ad-monetized websites; a truncated PDF copy of Michael Wolff’s new book ‘Fire and Fury’ is distributed online (along with a complimentary backdoor); and the Skyfall and Solace attacks are revealed to be a hoax – and a somewhat unsettling social experiment.
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Do you know the story of the ant and the grasshopper? The point of the story is that you work before you have the problem. We know that in cybersecurity, because when it’s breach o’clock you better be ready. But to get there you need to be like the ant and put in the effort. Read on to find out how.
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Kovter is a pervasive click-fraud Trojan that uses a fileless persistence mechanism to maintain a foothold in an infected system and thwart traditional antivirus software. In this article, we take a closer look at this technique, which Kovter began leveraging in 2016.
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Kovter the click-fraud Trojan is back with a brand-new trick. Customers of our endpoint protection product CylancePROTECT® will be glad to learn that Kovter poses no threat to their systems. When the malware downloads its executable payload, Cylance immediately convicts the infected file. Our solution also blocks the execution of malicious PowerShell scripts, meaning CylancePROTECT stops Kovter in multiple ways.
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LockPOS is a stealthy point of sale (POS) malware. Current indicators suggest it is the most advanced iteration of the Zeus family of banking trojans.
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a report which disclosed that systems connected to Metropolitan Police Department surveillance cameras in Washington, DC, were compromised, and two variants of ransomware were found on their hard drives: Cerber and Dharma.
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The answer to real threat protection is artificial intelligence (AI) based prevention. Prevention achieves everything detection can’t. Our new eBook walks you through the problem of traditional security, the radically new solution, and the myriad of attainable benefits.
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This week in Security: The Andromeda botnet is taken down via a joint effort from international law enforcement agencies; 31 million people have their personal data exposed by a virtual keyboard vendor; and a new bill introduced by the Senate could impose actual jail time on executives for failing to disclose data breaches.
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Product vulnerability search, mitigation, and revelation continues to evolve. Many companies are now considering the adoption of “bug bounties” to augment their internal research and development teams. A vulnerability undetected will have a deleterious effect on the company brand and potentially place their customers, partners, and clients at risk.
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A strain of ransomware known as “Bad Rabbit” has been getting a lot of media attention today. Most of the victims appear to be Russian news agencies and other organizations in Russia and Ukraine. Know that if you’re using CylancePROTECT, you’re protected from this ransomware attack.
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The blockchain is an open, distributed ledger, which consists of a list of records (blocks) linked together via cryptographically-derived hash links. In most blockchain scenarios, these are public, anonymous servers – not owned or affiliated to any enterprise. Here are five basic principles underlying the technology.
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