Cyber Security Blog

You may have noticed something different about the Morphisec website. If so, thank you. That means you are helping Morphisec continue to climb in the Google ranks :).

But seriously, we have redesigned the new site, not just to look better (although we hope you find it as appealing as we do), or to reflect our brand better

Make 2019 the year you focus on the ROI of your cybersecurity initiatives.

By now you’ve heard all the 2019 predictions from cybersecurity vendors and practitioners. As every year, many are insightful and thought-provoking, some meant to invoke self-serving fear and doubt about the next big threat, others just repeats from the year prior.

Just in time for the new year, Morphisec has released a new version of our Endpoint Threat Prevention platform. Version 3.0 features enhanced, advanced analytics and SOC dashboarding, richer, SOC-enabled threat intelligence capabilities, and a new pre-installation application adware sanitizer module.

With October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) and November Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, Morphisec is publishing a series posts on industries included in the DHS list of 16 critical infrastructure sectors.

When we think about critical infrastructure, we are more likely to think of energy or transportation before manufacturing, but the sector is crucial to national economic prosperity and continuity. As the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) points out, a direct attack on or

With October National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) and November Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, Morphisec is publishing a series posts on industries included in the DHS list of 16 critical infrastructure sectors.

The healthcare industry needs to focus on its own cyber health. That’s the upshot of the latest round of reports and announcements from industry experts across the board.

ECRI Institute, a leading patient safety and medical technology research organization, recently released their 2019 Top Health Technology Hazards. Cybersecurity topped the annual list,

Cybersecurity is an enormous investment with even more enormous consequences for mistakes. To build an optimal security stack you need to balance residual risks with total cost of ownership of the cyber security stack and with minimal disruption to operations.

Fileless malware is a type of a malicious code execution technique that operates completely within process memory; no files are dropped onto the disk. Without any artifacts on the hard drive to detect, these attacks easily evade most security solutions.

So far, 2018 has turned out to be anything but business as usual, at least on the cybersecurity front. The revelation about CPU vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre (and all the offshoots); the explosion in cryptojacking – which is likely even more widespread than current estimates; the lightning speed at which the newest sophisticated attack technology is adopted by mass market criminals.

After more than four years with no weaponized exploits for Adobe Acrobat Reader, researchers at ESET identified a weaponized PDF that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the targeted machine and eventually assume full system control. The PDF exploits two previously unknown vulnerabilities, Acrobat Reader vulnerability CVE-2018-4990 and a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, CVE-2018-8120.

Adobe Reader has a built-in sandbox feature that usually makes exploitation difficult. By combining vulnerabilities, this attack achieves code execution and then bypasses the sandbox protection to fully compromise the targeted system.

We all wish we were smarter. And I believe that the vast majority of people, in some way, strive to GET smarter.

As someone who has been involved in the cybersecurity industry for years, and watched it evolve, I see countless companies in this market using the aspect of intelligence to position themselves as being smarter than others. But if you have to proclaim your intelligence, are you actually smart? Or even smarter than me? Or than the next company?