Suspicious activity on the endpoint is usually an indicator that a larger cybersecurity threat or attack is occurring. Your users are continually targeted by various attacks–phishing, malicious websites, session-based attacks and more—that end up playing out on the endpoints inside your organization. While understanding anomalous behaviors on your endpoints is...

Data breaches continue to grow at a rampant pace. According to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach report, there were over 53,000 incidents and 2,216 confirmed data breaches in 2017. The report goes on to say that the time to compromise continues to be very short - within seconds or minutes....

By Nitin Agale, Senior VP of Products for Securonix Your endpoints are a valuable part of your enterprise structure. They are the computers your employees use and the servers your company depends on. Defending your endpoints is important, but it’s critical that your endpoint defense is just one part of your...

    The Securonix Customer Excellence Awards recognize forward thinking security leaders who are demonstrating a long-term vision to elevate the role and impact of security in their organizations, and have implemented cutting edge cybersecurity solutions to realize this vision. The Securonix Cybersecurity Excellence Awards were distributed at a special...

By Oleg Kolesnikov and Harshvardhan Parashar, Securonix Threat Research Team Figure 1: Document with Malicious VBA Macro used in Osiris Germany Campaign   Introduction The KRONOS malware was first discovered in June 2014 as a Banker Trojan available for purchase in a Russian underground forum for $7,000 [1]. After staying...

By Igor Baikalov, Chief Scientist, Securonix In his January 31 article in Dark Reading titled “5 Questions to Ask about Machine Learning” Anup Gosh proposes 5 questions consumers should ask in order to separate marketing hyperbole from technical reality. The questions Gosh proposes are all good points that you should...

By Oleg Kolesnikov, Securonix Threat Research Team Figure 1: Cosmos Bank in India US$13.5 Million SWIFT/ATM Cyber Attack of August 2018 [1]   Introduction The Securonix Threat Research team recently learned of a new high-profile cyber attack targeting SWIFT/ATM infrastructure of Cosmos Bank (COSDINBB), a 112-year old cooperative bank in...

By Sachin Nayyar, Chief Executive Officer, Securonix The internet has changed the lives of millions – billions of people around the world. It is how we connect, interact with one another, run our daily lives in both personal and professional situations. And with this drastic change, there is a new...

The cybersecurity industry faces a tremendous challenge in the form of a massive skills shortage. According to Forbes magazine over 40,000 security jobs are currently unfulfilled and organizations are struggling to fill another 200,000 positions. It is imperative for organizations to rapidly adopt artificial intelligence (AI) and automation technologies if...

By Oleg Kolesnikov and Harshvardhan Parashar, Securonix Threat Research Team     Figure 1: GandCrab Phishing Email   Introduction The GandCrab ransomware attacks are some of the most prevalent ransomware threats of 2018. In recent months, the GandCrab attackers were able to infect more than 50,000 victims and generate more...

By Oleg Kolesnikov and Harshvardhan Parashar, Securonix Threat Research Team   Figure 1: Persistent Cryptomining Jex Boss Initial Foothold Payload - Repeated Payload Execution Attempts   Introduction Cryptojacking is the unauthorized use of someone else’s computer to secretly mine cryptocurrency (also known as virtual or digital currency). According to a...

The annual Gartner Security Summit in National Harbor, MD is always an enlightening event for us. We tend to be myopic and focused on our own technology and solutions, and this Summit, in particular, gives us the opportunity to lift our gaze and reconnect with other, broader trends in IT,...