SocketPlayer – a backdoor wandering off the beaten path
A malware by the name of „SocketPlayer” has sparked the interest of several security researchers. One of our own analysts has taken a closer look at this specimen.
SocketPlayer – a backdoor wandering off the beaten path
A malware by the name of „SocketPlayer” has sparked the interest of several security researchers. One of our own analysts has taken a closer look at this specimen.
Panning for virtual gold - using other people's equipment
For quite some time, criminal actors have been using mobile devices for mining, without the knowledge or consent of the user.
Pirated Wordpress Add-On makes Websites Distribute Malware
Wordpress is a popular tool for creating web pages. Numerous extensions make your own programming skills superfluous. However, one should be careful when choosing its extensions.
Lessons Learned from the Most Popular Ransomware Attacks of 2017
In this article, we will look back on how ransomware evolved in 2017 and expose what made it more efficient and effective resulting to greater damage in terms of cost and impact on different industries.
What comes after Spectre + Meltdown? Why some things are not as easy as they sound
Meltdown and Spectre have created quite a major wave in the media. One of the most important questions that kept users as well as datacenter operator up at night is the question as to how much impact the remediating patches would have. The question why and to what extent performance got priority…
"Meltdown" and "Spectre": researchers discover severe CPU bugs
International researchers have discovered two severe vulnerabilities in the design of many recent CPUs. The vulnerabilities exist in CPUs from most major vendors, including Intel and AMD, and have been lingering there for over a decade. Microsoft has released an update which is also compatible with…
Inside Meltdown and Spectre: Interview with Anders Fogh
Meltdown and Spectre are considered the most serious bug in the history of computers. With Anders Fogh we have one of the few people worldwide in our team, who has driven the research, which was laying the foundation for the recently published security flaws. We sat down with him and asked him some…