Month: February 2020

Gorgon Group Grows More Sophisticated

New research has revealed that the threat group behind the cryptocurrency-stealing MasterMana botnet has grown increasingly sophisticated and is now trapping victims through spoofed login portals.

Free, trojanized WordPress themes lead to widespread compromise of web servers

Over 20,000 web servers (and who knows how many websites) have been compromised via trojanized WordPress themes to deliver malware through malicious ads, Prevailion researchers have discovered.

WordPress botnet deploys anti-adblocker script to make sure its spammy ads are profitable

A threat actor that has infected more than 20,000 WordPress sites by running the same trick for at least three years: distributing trojanized versions of premium WordPress themes and plugins.

PHP’s Labyrinth – Weaponized WordPress Themes & Plugins

Prevailion’s Tailored Intelligence team has followed an active supply chain attack that has been ongoing since late 2017, we named this campaign “PHPs Labyrinth.”

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Indicators of Compromise are Dead — Introducing Evidence of Compromise

The mission of Evidence of Compromise is simple: empower companies to audit and continuously monitor the security of their supply chains to an unprecedented degree, with the possibility of even predicting future breaches based on this real-time intelligence. Current methods of cyber risk management, incident response and risk modeling have failed to keep up with the growing […]

The Impact of 5G to Consumers and Businesses: Will More Breaches Occur?

5G is the next generation cellular network that will offer faster data speeds, less latency (lag time) and less interruption, said Karim Hijazi, CEO of Prevailion, a cyber intelligence company headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.

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