Law firms are increasingly the target of cyber attack. Cyber criminals recognize law firms as vaults of proprietary sensitive corporate data and as such optimal target for cyber security attacks. From the Panama Papers to DLA Piper, 2017 was one of the most challenging cybersecurity years for law firms and there is no indication that this trend is slowing down in 2018.
As this security flaw still exists and puts Azure environments at risk, we believe it’s important to continuously verify whether your environment is vulnerable. To do that we integrated Azure password harvesting capabilities into the Infection Monkey.
We are pleased to announce a new version of our Infection Monkey open source attack simulation tool with several significant enhancements. We first introduced the Infection Monkey in 2016 and have continuously developed and supported it. Part of what we did came from feedback we received from our community so thanks everyone for contributing!
We recently added File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) to the GuardiCore Centra Security Platform and wanted to share how it can help your organization detect breaches and achieve compliance with regulations such as PCI DSS and HIPAA.
The Samba team released a patch on May 24 for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Samba, the most popular file sharing service for all Linux systems. Samba is commonly included as a basic system service on other Unix-based operating systems as well.
This vulnerability, indexed CVE-2017-7494, enables a malicious attacker with valid write access to a file share to upload and execute an arbitrary binary file which will run with Samba permissions.
Last week we announced the discovery of Bondnet, a new botnet that was uncovered by GuardiCore Labs. The originator of Bondnet had installed a cryptocurrency miner and backdoor in thousands of servers of varying power and conscripted them into a botnet – a group of computing devices that can be centrally controlled for malicious purposes.
Two weeks ago we released the latest version of our flagship product Centra. For those of you who were unable to review the upgrade yet, here’s a short list of what it came with: