Tag: detection
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The continuous progression of technology has us—people modernize our ways of living to keep up with it. One of the many revolutionary ideas is cryptocurrency. This digital currency that mostly only exists electronically has offered consumers comfort, investment opportunities, and more just at the tip of our fingers. While it offers promising ideas, the world…
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In 2022, Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered on average 400,000 malicious files distributed every day, indicating a 5% growth compared to 2021. The number of certain types of threats also escalated: for example, Kaspersky experts discovered the 181% increase in the proportion of ransomware detected daily. These and other findings are part of Kaspersky Security Bulletin…
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Kaspersky’s ICS CERT researchers have shared their predictions for the next years’ industrial control system-focused developments and risks that organisations should prepare for in 2023. The predictions include increased attack surface due to digitisation, activities of volunteer and cybercriminal insiders, ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure as well as the technical, economic and geopolitical effects on…
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Sophos has announced it has been named a leader in the 2022 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Endpoint Protection, Detection and Response. It is commended as an Overall Leader, sweeping all product, innovation and market leadership ratings. “An increasing number of organizations are being hit with ransomware, and the average ransom payment rose nearly fivefold to…
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Sophos has released new findings on the Tor2Mine cryptominer, “Two flavors of Tor2Mine miner dig deep into networks with PowerShell, VBScript,” that show how the miner evades detection, spreads automatically through a target network and is increasingly harder to remove from an infected system. Tor2Mine is a Monero-miner that has been active for at least…
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Sophos has announced that it has acquired Capsule8, a pioneer and market leader of runtime visibility, detection and response for Linux production servers and containers covering on-premise and cloud workloads. Founded in 2016, Capsule8 is privately held and headquartered in New York, NY. “Sophos already protects more than two million servers for over 85,000 customers…
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Sophos has added Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to its Intercept X endpoint protection portfolio. Intercept X Advanced with EDR powered by deep learning technology delivers faster, more extensive malware discovery and is available today through a global early access program. Sophos’ deep learning neural network is trained on hundreds of millions of samples to look for…
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Interswitch East Africa has announced plans to introduce two advanced fraud management systems in Kenya known as Card Control and Scorebridge intended to further enhance fraud prevention for cardholders and financial institutions. The card based fraud prevention systems will add a new layer of protection for consumers and financial institutions, over and above the new EMV (Chip and PIN)…