Posted: March 6, 2019
Spoiler is the latest side-channel attack threatening Intel processors. Research from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., and the University of Lübeck in Germany, identifies a new Spectre-like attack. The group’s paper, “SPOILER: Speculative Load […]
Posted: February 27, 2019
Endpoint protection has evolved well past simple antivirus (AV) monitoring. Today’s endpoints require consistent and proactive investigation and mitigation of suspicious files or behavior. With the release of SonicWall Capture Client 2.0, organizations gain active […]
Posted: February 5, 2019
The Goffstown School District in New Hampshire supports nearly 4,000 students and staff. And one person oversees it all. Running the IT department for an entire K-12 school district sounds like a challenge that few […]
Posted: January 15, 2019
The short- and long-term impacts of the U.S. Federal Government shutdown have been well documented during the last month. Government employees aren’t receiving paychecks. National parks are being vandalized. Air travel could soon been at […]
Posted: December 19, 2018
Each year introduces new cyberattack trends that MSSPs must track, analyze and solve for their customers. Many new attack techniques amount to nothing. Others have devastating impact. But it’s important to remain diligent in monitoring […]
Posted: November 30, 2018
Visiting a website is no longer what it used to be. Despite this hilarious Imgur post, there is a different trend you may not have noticed: cryptomining via the browser. Many news and procrastination (e.g., BuzzFeed) […]
Posted: October 25, 2018
For a moment, think from the perspective of someone who wants to hack a government organization. Think of what they want to do. Seize critical records, encrypt the drive and hold it for ransom? Convert […]
Posted: October 16, 2018
You’ve been here before. Your customer gets hit by a cyberattack and they ask, “Why did this happen? Shouldn’t your managed security service have protected us?” Unless you give them a satisfactory answer, they may […]
Posted: October 9, 2018
Hackers have been placing backdoors into systems for years for a variety of purposes. We have all read the stories about backdoors being installed in retailers to siphon payment card information; a PSI DSS and […]
Posted: July 30, 2018
Of all the IT resources retailers maintain, it’s hard to claim that any system is more important than their point-of-sale (POS) systems. POS systems bring in revenue, as well as tie into other IT infrastructures, […]
Posted: July 9, 2018
While Sophos claims to be a leading next-generation antivirus solution, are they really able to protect your organization’s endpoints — not to mention the rest of your network — in today’s threat landscape? SonicWall Capture […]
Posted: July 2, 2018
Last year, SonicWall discovered and created protections for more than 56 million new forms of malware. Because it takes time to create and roll out hundreds of thousands of protections each day, something must be […]
Posted: June 28, 2018
In April 2018, SonicWall released Capture Client 1.0 featuring a next-generation, behavior-based antivirus (AV) engine, reporting and management, trusted certificate management, and endpoint enforcement on modern SonicWall firewalls. Despite landing with great enthusiasm as a […]
Posted: June 15, 2018
When evaluating a change in how you secure your network, you need to look beyond the upper-right quadrant. It is easy to run to analyst graphs and pick a few cyber security solutions that etch […]
Posted: April 26, 2018
The 2018 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report reported a 71.2 percent decline in the number of ransomware attacks, but a 101.2 percent increase the number of ransomware variants. Let me ask you, is this good news […]
Posted: April 25, 2018
In previous webcasts and blogs, I’ve spoken of a woman who was the victim of a terrible ransomware attack as well as an intrusion on her computer. It was her first computer breach in over […]
Posted: April 17, 2018
In 2017, SonicWall Capture Labs discovered 56 million new forms of malware from across the globe. Threat actors are constantly creating updates to known versions of malware to get past defenses that rely on identifying […]
Posted: April 11, 2018
In previous webcasts and blogs, I’ve spoken of a woman who was the victim of a terrible ransomware attack as well as an intrusion on her computer. It was her first computer breach in over […]
Posted: April 9, 2018
SonicWall has recently been named the 85th Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authority (CNA) by the MITRE Corporation, an international not-for-profit security institute. What does this mean for SonicWall and the cyber security world […]
Posted: February 21, 2018
One of the key characteristics of advanced malware is the use of many tactics to evade detection. In addition to defeating signature-based detection products and behavior-based detection tools, there are hundreds of evasion techniques advanced […]
Posted: January 4, 2018
Malware often incorporates advanced techniques to evade analysis and discovery by firewalls and sandboxes. When malware sees evidence that dynamic analysis is occurring, it can invoke different techniques to evade analysis, such as mimicking the […]
Posted: December 12, 2017
History is full of people who’ve labored over missed opportunities. Like all other non-bitcoin-owning people, I am one of them. I first heard of cryptocurrency in early 2013 and scoffed at the idea that something […]
Posted: November 22, 2017
Now that Halloween is over and your coworkers are bringing in the extra candy they don’t want, let’s look back at the last quarter’s results from SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) network sandbox service. […]
Posted: November 8, 2017
Last month, I wrote how we found nearly 26,500 new forms of malware and shared some general stats. Let’s take a look at the new threats found by SonicWall’s network sandbox, Capture Advanced Threat Protection […]
Posted: October 24, 2017
What Is Bad Rabbit Ransomware? On Tuesday, Oct. 24, a new strand of ransomware named Bad Rabbit appeared in Russia and the Ukraine and spread throughout the day. It first was found after attacking Russian […]
Posted: October 11, 2017
It was a Tuesday afternoon. Liz, a local attorney with 26 years of experience, had given up. She was easily over 20 hours in to trying to free her computer, with all of her files, […]
Posted: October 9, 2017
Equifax just rolled into the history books as the victim of one of the most widespread and dangerous data breaches of all time. The breach happened on March 10, 2017, at which time the cyber […]
Posted: September 15, 2017
Malware never sleeps. Threat actors and criminal organizations are relentless in testing, optimizing and deploying exploit kits that target businesses and organizations across the globe. August 2017 was no different. In fact, the month presented […]
Posted: July 7, 2017
If anyone ever needs proof on how effective SonicWall Capture Labs is, look back to the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017, and just last week the NotPetya malware. In contrast to over 250,000 endpoints compromised […]
Posted: June 14, 2017
Will you be ransomware’s next victim? Can ransomware encrypt your data and hold it hostage until you pay a ransom? Organizations large and small across industries and around the globe are at risk of a […]
Posted: May 25, 2017
Business models always have to tackle the method of distribution, will they sell directly or through a channel of distributors or a mix of both. The same is with ransomware developers. Many are electing to […]
Posted: May 12, 2017
Note: This blog was updated on Monday, May 15. First, if you are a SonicWall customer and you are using our Gateway Anti-Virus, Intrusion Prevention service, and Capture Advanced Threat Protection then your SonicWall firewall […]
Posted: April 18, 2017
In 2016, SonicWall detected a 600% growth in ransomware families. We saw a wide range of ransomware forms and attack vectors in the 2017 Annual Threat Report; some successful, others not so much. So, what […]
Posted: March 30, 2017
If you pictured a specific technology exemplified as an animal what would it be? Cars have been visualized as horses and bulls and the names like Mustang, Pinto, and Taurus all ring a bell with […]
Posted: March 3, 2017
Since the release of SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (Capture ATP) in August 2016 on SonicWall firewalls, we have seen a lot of unique behavior from authors of malicious code, namely ransomware. Up until Christmas 2016, Locky […]
Posted: January 27, 2017
Ransomware has forced organizations to rethink their security architecture. Organizations are increasingly investing in security solutions that provide additional protection of sensitive data, as well as better visibility over network traffic and endpoint activity. According […]
Posted: December 15, 2016
Recently it was reported that in April 2016 an employee at Michigan-based utility company BWL opened an email and clicked on a malicious attachment laden with ransomware. The result? It shut down accounting and email […]
Posted: November 30, 2016
Ransomware is an advanced form of malware that attempts to get users to pay a fee or spoofed fine in order to regain access to their device or files. The simplest version will place an […]
Posted: November 6, 2016
To understand how SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service (ATP) protects the average company we looked at the data for 300 networks. SonicWall Capture ATP examines suspicious code and files to discover never-before-seen zero-day attacks. […]
Posted: September 14, 2016
With a background in security and ancient history, I love to draw correlations between the famed battles of old and the network security struggles of the modern world. To better understand this you have to […]
Posted: May 31, 2016
Network firewalls have evolved from 1st generation simple packet filters to advanced devices that evolve so fast that labeling them as “next-generation (NG)” is the best way to classify them. They are often defined by […]
