Cyber Security Blog

There’s now a new ransomware attack, on average, every 10 seconds. Threat actors have become powerful and sophisticated enough to successfully hold national governments—such as Ireland and Costa Rica—to ransom. 

The Aurora stealer is a notorious Golang-based information stealer that's been gaining popularity from the end of 2022 through the first quarter of 2023. The Morphisec Threat Labs team has been tracing its activities using our prevention telemetry...

Legacy Microsoft operating systems (OSs) will probably be with us until the universe’s heat death. OS usage statistics show the total market share of legacy operating systems is still above 10 percent. With the total Windows installation base of 1.3...

Few executives doubt their organizations must pay more attention to cybersecurity. Cybercrime costs were estimated at $8.4 trillion globally in 2022 alone, and could exceed $20 trillion by 2026. No organization can afford to ignore this risk.

Fileless malware attacks are a malicious code execution technique that works completely within process memory. In a fileless attack, no files are dropped onto a hard drive. With no artifacts on the hard drive to detect, these attacks easily evade...

Gartner® has published a new report focused onAutomated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) technology.The company calls it“an emerging game-changing technology for improving cyber defense... [that] effectively mitigates many known threats and is likely to...

Starting in November 2022, Morphisec has been tracking an advanced info stealer we have named “SYS01 stealer.” SYS01 stealer uses similar lures and loading techniques to another information stealer recently dubbed S1deload by the Bitdefender group,...

Security success doesn't happen in a vacuum. Security conferences give practitioners, decision-makers, and vendors a chance to get outside the bubble of day-to-day life. So, what are the top in-person and virtual cybersecurity conferences in 2023? 

Morphisec has recently identified a highly evasive malware campaign delivering ProxyShellMiner to Windows endpoints.

ChatGPT is a powerful AI chatbot that uses a huge data collection and natural language processing to “converse” with users in a way that feels like a normal, human conversation. Its ease of use and relatively high accuracy has seen users leverage it...

As of January 10th 2023, Windows 7, Windows 8, 8.1, their Windows embedded derivatives, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will no longer receive patches from Microsoft. Millions of devices will now become "legacy" and create a suite of new legacy security...

During November, Morphisec identified a brand-new variant of Babuk ransomware while investigating a customer's prevention event. Babuk was first discovered at the beginning of 2021, when it began targeting businesses to steal and encrypt data in...

For the second consecutive year, Gartner has highlighted Moving Target Defense (MTD) as a featured technology, and Morphisec as a Sample Vendor for the technology in their report, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Security. The authors define MTD as “......

If you have anything to do with cyber security, you know it employs its own unique and ever-evolving language. Jargon and acronyms are the enemies of clear writing—and are beloved by cyber security experts. So Morphisec has created a comprehensive...

On a scale of one to ten, how effective is the status quo approach to server security?In theory, it should be ten. The path to keeping servers protected from the outside world (segmentation, firewalls, vulnerability patching, security solutions...

The evidence is clear that despite expanding cybersecurity investment, sophisticated cyberthreats are increasingly successful. Household brands like Uber and Apple, essential service providers like Colonial Pipeline, and even entire nation states...

“When,” not “if.” For financial cybersecurity teams, dealing with regular cyberattacks is part of the job. Almost 23 percent of all cyber attacks were aimed at financial institutions in 2021. And 63 percent of financial institutions experienced an...

I recently came across a report about the Internet of Things (IoT) submitted to the United States President by his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. It examines the challenges of securing IoT devices in depth. The report’s...

What is the benefit of a Defense-in-Depth (DiD) approach? From the Punic Wars to WW2, history shows that when you have multiple layers of defense, even the most motivated and well-resourced attackers will struggle to breach the final objective....

A non-fungible token (NFT) is a record on a blockchain associated with a digital or physical asset—usually a digital file such as a photo, video, or audio. An NFT’s ownership is recorded in the blockchain, and it can be sold and traded. NFTs differ...