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WIRTE’s campaign in the Middle East ‘living off the land’ since at least 2019

SecureList

We attribute this campaign with high confidence to an actor named WIRTE, which is a lesser-known threat actor first publicly referenced by our colleagues at Lab52 in 2019. Get list of antivirus software installed. Get operating system architecture. Gaining an initial foothold. ‘rootSecurityCenter2’ -Query $wmiQuery.

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NEW TECH: Trend Micro inserts ‘X’ factor into ‘EDR’ – endpoint detection and response

The Last Watchdog

With all the talk of escalating cyber warfare , the spread of counterfeit smartphones and new forms of self-replicating malware , I came away from Black Hat USA 2019 (my 15 th ) marveling, once more, at the panache of modern cyber criminals. Mainstreaming EDR EDR came along to supplement signature-based antivirus.

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MY TAKE: How SASE has begun disrupting IT — by shifting cybersecurity to the ‘services edge’

The Last Watchdog

It calls for organizations to start proactively managing the myriad new attack vectors they’ve opened up in the pursuit of digital agility — by embracing a bold new IT architecture that extends network security far beyond the traditional perimeter. A full transition to a radically transformed security architecture is a tall order.

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Sandboxing: Advanced Malware Analysis in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Antivirus protection isn’t enough to protect against today’s advanced threats. In 2021, sandboxes are now a fundamental part of an organization’s cybersecurity architecture. In 2021, sandboxes are now a fundamental part of an organization’s cybersecurity architecture. Antivirus Coverage Isn’t Enough. What is a sandbox?

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8 Top Unified Threat Management (UTM) Software & Hardware Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Starting in 2019, Gartner consolidated its Magic Quadrants for Unified Threat Management (UTM) and Enterprise Firewalls into a single Magic Quadrant called Network Firewalls. Web antivirus. However, the UTM market has been evolving over the past few years. URL filtering. IPsec and SSL virtual private networking ( VPN ). User control.

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MY TAKE: What it takes to beat cybercrime in the age of DX and IoT: personal responsibility

The Last Watchdog

Meanwhile, after presumably enjoying a restful holiday, the best and brightest malicious hackers are diving into 2019 with renewed verve. There is not much that an end user can currently do to protect themselves against this type of attack, except to not run any software from a shady source, even if it does not raise any antivirus flag.”

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The 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP): Our takeaways

Cisco Security

The key was to provide corporations with an endpoint security solution that integrates with existing security architecture, easy-to-use, and cloud delivered at scale. When the market demanded next-gen Antivirus (AV), we delivered strong EPP and EDR capabilities. Today, endpoint security is in a state of transformation.

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