IceRat evades antivirus by running PHP on Java VM

IceRat evades antivirus by running PHP on Java VM

IceRat keeps low detections rates for weeks by using an unusual language implementation: JPHP. But there are more reasons than the choice of the compiler. This article explores IceRat and explains a way to analyze JPHP malware. Discovery of IceRat User McMcbrad of...
Updated Titus Methodology in three phases

Updated Titus Methodology in three phases

It was around 2013 when we began to realize that while data classification is a technology solution, many organizations wanted to know “how” they could accomplish a successful data classification rollout. To facilitate this discussion, we built a deployment...
Data Protection Legislation Around the World in 2021

Data Protection Legislation Around the World in 2021

2020 brought several major developments in the world of data protection legislation. Most notably, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into force in January in the United States and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in the Schrems II...
Digital Innovation—Made Possible by Secure SD-WAN

Digital Innovation—Made Possible by Secure SD-WAN

If you still only see SD-WAN as a replacement for your branch WAN solution, you haven’t been looking closely enough. Of course, distributed organizations still need a flexible and reliable solution to move data, applications, and workflows between branch offices and...
The SolarWinds Attack: Guide to an Effective Defense

The SolarWinds Attack: Guide to an Effective Defense

During the recent holiday season, organizations relying on the SolarWinds Orion platform for network monitoring and management received a most unwelcome gift: news that this key piece of their infrastructure had been compromised. On Dec. 13, 2020, the Cybersecurity...
Delivery payment fraud

Delivery payment fraud

People are receiving phishing e-mail messages with requests for payments for a package delivery, with links to a fake postal service website for making the payment. By 2019, 14.1% of all retail purchases in the world occurred online, and some digital...