This month’s Flashback Wednesday takes us back to the beginning. Pakistani Brain, discovered on January 19th, is considered to be the first-ever PC virus.
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Ransomware: Should you pay up?
ESET’s Cameron Camp provides valuable insight into what you should do if you’re a victim of ransomware.
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Adaptive Defense 360 Given Stamp of Approval by AV-Comparatives
Defending your devices in our hyperconnected world is no simple task. Your protection should include a wide range of defense mechanisms, a necessary deployment that, until now, has forced IT organizations to purchase and maintain a variety of products from different providers.
In December, AV-Comparatives gave their stamp of approval to the three principles of the Adaptive Defense 360 security model: continuous monitoring of all applications on company servers and workstations, automatic classification of endpoint processes using big data and machine learning techniques in a Cloud-based platform, and the possibility, should a process not be automatically classified, of a PandaLabs expert technician analyzing the behavior in depth.
“The evaluation by AV-Comparatives is a good reflection of the value of Adaptive Defense to our customers,” said Iratxe Vázquez, Product Manager at Panda Security. “We protect from and detect all types of known and unknown malware and zero-day security attacks (ransomware, bot networks, exploits, fileless malware, APTs, etc.), all thanks to the continuous monitoring of all processes running on our customers’ devices.”
The Adaptive Defense 360 solution has been endorsed as the first and only product that combines endpoint protection (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) in a single platform.
“As this solution classifies all executed processes, it cannot fail to record any malware.”
Efficacy Test
Panda Security’s advanced cybersecurity solution detects and blocks malware that other protection systems don’t even see. “We know that Adaptive Defense is easily one of the best solutions on the market, and we needed this to be certified by a prestigious laboratory in the world of security,” said Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs.
Adaptive Defense 360 achieved 99.4% detection in the 220 analyzed samples and 0 false positives in the independent analysis performed by the esteemed AV-Comparatives Institute, which establishes this solution as the most advanced end-user cybersecurity software.
“For us it was essential that the tests were done with the utmost rigor, as we were looking for an environment that would perfectly simulate the real world and the threats to which companies are constantly exposed,” says Corrons.
The Intelligent Control Platform, a Synthesis of Machine Learning and Big Data
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are booming trends this 2017, allowing companies to use data science to optimize resources and improve their productivity. Imagine the effectiveness of a cybersecurity software that combines both of these trends.
“The protection that Adaptive Defense 360 offers is much more than a marketing strategy,” said Iratxe Vázquez. “This solution is a protection strategy, a new security model that our customers will need in order to deal with cyber threats. The attacker continually adapts his behavior, easily avoiding traditional antiviruses. He infiltrates and acts quietly, making all kinds of lateral movements that we monitor, analyze and block before he reaches his targets.”
Adaptive Defense 360 is part of an intelligent cyber security platform, capable of merging contextual intelligence with defense operations.
“We continuously monitor and evaluate the behavior of everything running on our clients’ machines, using Machine Learning’s adaptive techniques in Big Data environments, which gives way to exponentially increasing knowledge of malware, tactics, techniques, and malicious processes, along with reliable application information, “explains Iratxe Vázquez.
Adaptive 360 is also integrated with SIEM solutions (Security Information and Event Management), which add detailed information on the activity of running applications at workstations. For those customers who do not have a SIEM, Adaptive Defense 360 incorporates its own security event management and storage system for real-time analysis of information collected with the Advanced Reporting Tool.
AV-Comparatives has seen what we can do, and they liked what they saw. How about you? Have you witnessed intelligent cybersecurity in action yet?
Follow the links to download the first infographic on the most notable examples of ransomware in 2016.
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How to protect your Android device from Ghost Push
Ghost Push is a malware family that exploits vulnerabilities to gain root access to Android devices to then download and review other apps in the background. Using social engineering, users are tricked into downloading Ghost Push from third party app stores or via links sent in text messages. Once installed, Ghost Push tries to gain root access. As the name suggests, Ghost Push acts in a ghostly fashion once it has root access, meaning infected users don’t notice anything – everything happens in the background. Recently, a new variant of the Ghost Push malware, Gooligan, was detected spreading in the wild. The Gooligan variant steals email addresses and authentication tokens stored on the infected devices, gaining access to users’ Google account data, including Gmail and Google Play. More than one million users’ Google Play accounts were affected.
The best tools for a good night’s sleep
Just when you finally feel like you are getting some sleep, the alarm startles you awake with its horrid beeping noise that you probably hate with a passion.
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Invest in encryption and get it right
The heavy ICO fine against Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance PLC has highlighted a shortcoming with encryption.
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Health Care Legislation Raises Ransomware to Level of Cybersecurity Breach
Data theft and ransomware attacks with a direct financial impact on their victims are some of the primary threats that the health care industry is facing. Healthcare was the most affected sector in terms of cyberattacks in 2015, accumulating a total of 253 security holes and 112 million stolen records.
Despite its long history of lucrative attacks and the thousands of people affected by its intrusions, ransomware was given the same treatment as other infractions in the eyes of the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This US legislation grants privacy to data and the provision of security to safeguard medical information. Until now, ransomware was part and parcel with the rest of the legislation.
The current scenario calls for greater protection of the multitudes of devices that compose a hospital’s IT infrastructure. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has declared that ransomware infections constitute a serious violation of the standard. It has been raised to the level of a serious infraction and a breach of cybersecurity.
With the recognition of the activity of encryption (typical of a majority of ransomware incidents) as a form of unauthorized acquisition and diffusion of medical data, ransomware has become subject to HIPPA security rules. This has established the national standards to protect patient information that is stored or transmitted electronically.
Let Us Protect You
If it seems like cybersecurity breaches are a major hassle in themselves, we must now think of the other fiscal penalties that come into play if security protocols are not met. Non-compliance with these protocols could come to light in the event of a cyberattack such as ransomware.
Adaptive Defense 360 is the only advanced cybersecurity system that combines latest generation protection, detection, and remediation technology with the ability to classify 100% of running processes.
This solution classifies all active processes in every endpoint, guaranteeing protection against known malware and against threats such as zero-day attacks, Advanced Persistent Threats, and targeted attacks.
Better to prevent infection now than to cure it later.
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Trump, Putin, and the dangers of fake news
Originally published at The Parallax.
Creating a culture of cybersecurity at work
With the digital threatscape proliferating exponentially – i.e. phishing emails increased almost 800 percent quarter-to-quarter in Q1 2016, to 6.3 million, while ransomware soared 300 percent year-over-year on its way to a billion-dollar-a-year problem – it’s important to remember that effective cybersecurity rests on three pillars – products and services, processes, and people. Simply throwing more money and resources at cybersecurity is not the answer: People are the key, and everybody has a role to play in effective cybersecurity.
Misconfigured server reveals Cerber ransomware targets users in Europe and North America
Cerber ransomware is a highly effective ransomware family that has been developed by professional cybercriminals. Fortunately for us, even professional cybercriminals make mistakes – like misconfiguring their servers. Twitter user and researcher @Racco42 noticed the mistake . Through this misconfiguration, we were able to take a closer look at their statistics and learn more about who they are targeting and who are not targeting.
