Thanks to WatchGuard’s Panda Adaptive Defense 360 zero-trust service, WatchGuard Threat Lab was able to identify and stop a sophisticated fileless malware loader before execution on the victim’s computer. Upon further detailed analysis by our attestation team, we identified several recent browser…

Last month while onboarding a new customer to Panda EDR with the Orion threat hunting console, WatchGuard Threat Lab discovered an existing advanced persistent threat (APT) on the organization’s network. WatchGuard Threat Lab investigated the incident and were able to identify much of the threat…

This short post will show a real-world phish that DNSWatch caught and how analysts were able to garner further information using trivial open-source tools because of a unique mistake by the attacker.

Recently Amazon, Microsoft, and others have taken a step back to review the use of their own face recognition software. Some users of this technology may use only face recognition to identify a person. This idea that you only need the face recognition software to identify a person doesn’t allow for…

Last week we came across ransomware with unique evasion techniques in a new variant, or possibly a copycat, of the MedusaLocker ransomware. MedusaLocker ransomware, first seen in September 2019, came with a batch file to evade detection. Batch files contain script commands running in a Command…

The other day, a WatchGuard employee received a text alert stating that Chase bank had limited access to their account. They right away knew the message was bogus and offered it to us to investigate. We found the link within the message sends the user to a fake Chase login. Fortunately, the employee…