“It’s important for businesses to understand that APTs use a wide range of malware, from custom-built toolkits to commodity malware. When people use the term ‘APT malware,’ they’re often referring to the custom...
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Prevailion, a global leader in cyber adversary intelligence, today announced that it has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the latest Cool Vendors in Security Operations and Threat Intelligence report....
Prevailion, a global leader in cyber adversary intelligence, today announced that it has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor in the latest Cool Vendors in Security Operations and Threat Intelligence report....
Karim Hijazi, Prevailion CEO, alongside Yahoo Finance's Dan Howley, join The First Trade with Alexis Christoforous and Brian Sozzi to discuss the possibility of Microsoft buying TikTok's operations in the United States. ...
Our CEO answers questions about the recent closing of the Chinese Consulate in Houston....
VC Investment in Cybersecurity Dips & Shifts with COVID-19 While the pandemic has infected funding for cybersecurity startups, it also has emboldened some startups with innovative tools that secure the wave of at-home wo...
The day after scammers commandeered various high-profile Twitter accounts to conduct a bitcoin scam, cybersecurity professionals and the company itself tried to make sense of exactly what happened. ...
Meet Ellen. As CISO for a regional bank, she spends her time spreading security awareness, coaching her managers, and supporting the selection of security tools. Ellen doesn’t know that her bank has been compromised, o...
Corporate network breaches are happening all the time, but finding out about them can be difficult for anyone outside of the company. This lack of transparency poses a significant problem for many interested parties, but...
ESET has analyzed the operations of Evilnum, the APT group behind the Evilnum malware previously seen in attacks against financial technology companies. While said malware has been seen in the wild since at least 2018 an...
With the new world of widespread remote work, you might be especially eager to consider a job offer or listing that promises that you can work from home. But you should be especially cautious, too....
Our CEO, Karim Hijazi, talks about increasingly common cyber crime tactics leveraged during the Coronavirus Era for FOX 26 Houston....
As unrest continues in scores of cities across the United States, the power of anonymity gives rise to dizzying levels of discord, disinformation, conspiracies, and anarchy-peddling, across social media and the world wid...
An ongoing "massive" COVID-19-themed phishing campaign is attempting to install the NetSupport Manager remote access tool on Windows devices, according to a series of alerts from the Microsoft Security Intelligence team....
The coronavirus crisis has provided fresh opportunity for online scammers to target newly unemployed and financially vulnerable workers, and now employers as well. ...
Cybercriminals are notorious opportunists. Much of their trade relies on creating timely “lures” or “bait” to entice their victims to click on fake websites or download files that contain malware....
An American touting conspiracy theories about the spread of the coronavirus was the likely source of an incident in which nearly 25,000 credentials from the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and other insti...
More than 26 million Americans have already sought unemployment funds. Hackers will be on the hunt for more victims....
For decades, China has waged an espionage war with the United States, exploiting America's comparatively open society and free-market economy to steal critical information, trade secrets and technology tools....
The so-called Electric Panda group is not new — it seems to have been operating since at least 2016, according to one of the indicators listed by DCSA. And Karim Hijazi, CEO of cyber firm Prevailion, told Politico he f...
Criminal, political, and strategic factors are combining to create a perfect storm of cyber infections that target the global supply chain....
EXCLUSIVE: Since the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping across the globe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has become the target of an array of cybersecurity attacks – but recent efforts to hack into the system hav...
It is not clear if any accounts were compromised, but the attacks show how the WHO and other organizations at the center of a global effort to contain the coronavirus have come under attack....
Karim Hijazi, chief executive of cyber intelligence firm Prevailion, shared his recently captured data with Reuters that shows a sophisticated hacking group was actively targeting the global health organization. Reuters ...
From price-gouging, mask stealing and pharma-fraud to charity scams, app extortion, cyber-hacking and even "coughing" on people and produce for Instagram followers or as an act of hate, the new coronavirus-centered crime...
TA505, a notorious cybercriminal group believed to be operating in Russia, is using business email compromise tactics to target a new group of victims – HR departments, according to researchers from Prevailion, a ...
Infamous cybercrime organization spotted in attacks that employ legitimate software -- and Google Drive. A newly discovered attack campaign by the notoriously prolific TA505 cybercrime organization now is targeting busin...
Fulton-based cyber startup foundry DataTribe released a new analysis showing that investment activity was trending down in uncertain times, even before COVID-19. Here's a look at what that means for deals locally....
Fake websites that claim to offer information or treatments for coronavirus are another significant threat. The security industry has already uncovered one case in which hackers are using an interactive map of coronaviru...
