Breach Prevention Blog

Microsoft Defender Antivirus suffers from a perception problem. For the first decade of its existence, starting with its 2006 release, Defender was a much-maligned piece of software that no business would use to protect its endpoints. That’s no...

Key Points: 

• Morphisec Labs tracked a new MirrorBlast campaign targeting financial services organizations 
• MirrorBlast is delivered via a phishing email that contains malicious links which download a weaponized Excel document
• MirrorBlast has...

A successful security breach brings with it a host of legal and financial ramifications, including cleanup costs paid to remediation vendors and possible penalties from the exfiltration of sensitive data. The rise of data protection regulations...

Now more than ever, supply chains are attracting threat actor attention. As evidenced by attacks like the one which recently targeted the IT services provider Kaseya and over 1,500 of their clients, trusted relationships between service providers...

Editor's Note: This blog post has been updated as per the request of Advanced Installer. 

Introduction

In 2020, Morphisec introduced the Jupyter infostealer, a .NET attack that primarily targets Chromium, Firefox, and Chrome browser data while...

Ransomware developers have powerful financial incentives to continue adding new features to their code. From developers to affiliates, these malicious pieces of software enrich countless cyber criminals at great expense to victims, and will...

Ever since the "Vienna Virus" prompted the development of the first antivirus solution in 1987, cybersecurity has come to resemble a high-stakes game of catch up: new threats appear, defenses are re-designed to defeat these threats, adversaries...

On approximately August 21, 2021, security researchers, cybersecurity leaders, and eventually the CISA, began voicing concerns about the inevitable threat of LockFile ransomware attacks on a wide variety of ill-informed and unprepared victims....

Editor's Note: This blog post is courtesy of IT Central Station.

Security Operations (SecOps), never a stress-free area of business, is now struggling with additional pressures. While the threat environment has grown more serious than ever,...

Is that a rat or a phoenix? Usually, the answer to such a question would be simple. However, when it comes to threat actors, nothing is ever as easy as it appears. For this reason we’ve compiled the latest news on cyber threats, new(ish)...