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Computers are a great tool and provide many perks to their users; they can perform tasks in a rather impressively fast manner, potentially offer paperless offices, and you’re even able to play computer games…of course not during working time! Aside from these great benefits, however, how useful…
Brexit Email Tricks Users Into Downloading Malware
Recently, some individuals received emails that used Brexit to trick them into opening malicious office document attachments. The document’s authors must have been watching the news carefully because the file’s name was Brexit 15.11.2018.docx and the emails came around the same time as the release…
WatchGuard’s Q1 2018 Internet Security Report
Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of WatchGuard’s Internet Security Report for Q1 2018! Every quarter, WatchGuard’s Threat Lab looks forward to diving into Firebox Feed data from tens of thousands of live Firebox appliances across the globe to produce a report on the latest security…
WatchGuard’s Q4 2017 Internet Security Report Released; Malicious Office Document Usage on the Rise
Today, WatchGuard Technologies released its quarterly Internet Security Report covering Q4 2017. Every quarter we examine anonymized data from our Firebox UTM appliances all across the world and report on the most common malware variants and network attacks that our appliances block. This gives…
WatchGuard’s Q3 2017 Internet Security Report
Today, we’re pleased to announce the release of WatchGuard’s Internet Security Report for Q3 2017! Every quarter, WatchGuard’s Threat Lab looks forward to diving into Firebox Feed data from tens of thousands of live Firebox appliances across the globe to produce a report on the latest security…
Indicators of RDP Brute Force Attacks
I have been investigating an incident involving two EC2 instances on AWS that were infected with ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, and other types of malware. Sounds scary, right?! Well actually, the approaches that the attackers took to get onto the hosts do not appear to be that sophisticated…
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