Blogs About Automated Moving Target Defense

When it comes to endpoint security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint stands out as a popular choice. It's the fastest-growing endpoint protection platform, boasting over 19% market share, and for good reason — Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides...

Morphisec announced the launch of the Anti-Ransomware Assurance Suite to help organizations pre-emptively reduce exposure to cyber risk, proactively prevent advance threats and ensure optimal anti-ransomware defense. Powered by Automated Moving...

Globally, ransomware is big business, with millions of attacks targeting organizations every day. Not every attack is financially successful, but with keen attention to detail, attackers have (and continue to) tune tactics, making ransomware a...

Recently, Morphisec Labs identified a significant increase in activity linked to Mispadu (also known as URSA), a banking trojan first flagged by ESET in 2019. Initially concentrated on LATAM countries and Spanish-speaking individuals, Mispadu has...

(Updated March 29th, 2024)

The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has long been a crucial resource for organizations in managing their vulnerability lifecycle and ensuring the security of their systems. However, recent developments have...

Gartner released two reports this month including Gartner® Emerging Tech: Security — AMTD Transforms Endpoint Protection¹and Gartner Emerging Tech: AMTD Advances Proactive Cloud Defense ² report, which each feature Morphisec as a sample vendor. 

For the first time, Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) has been included in the 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security as a technology in the ‘on the rise’ category. Morphisec is named as a Sample Vendor in the AMTD category. “This Hype...

“If an attacker successfully hacks our workstations or trading terminals, they’d have full access to the firm’s critical infrastructure.” This quote from a Chief Information Security Officer at a leading US-based hedge fund shines a light on the...

In today’s threat landscape, multiple defense-in-depth layers are one of the only ways security teams can achieve peace of mind. Why? Two reasons stand out:

As the sophistication of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Bard and others continues to grow, they present a greater risk to security defenders—and greater reward to attackers adopting AI-driven attack techniques. 

Cyberattacks targeting critical OT and industrial organizations rose by 87% last year—the threat level to OT is higher than ever, and threat actors are finding new ways to compromise OT environments.

Morphisec has been recognized as a sample vendor in Gartner’s Emerging Tech: Security — Emergence Cycle for Automated Moving Target Defense Report—research covering groundbreaking security technologies that according to Gartner, “are paving the way...

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. 

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.

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...

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 “......

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...

In the last couple of years, security teams in large enterprises and high-profile government organizations have increasingly experienced a new form of attack. This attack leverages the supply chain of an organization’s software ecosystem (and less...