Month: June 2019
A perfect marketing plan is hard to find
As a company that specializes in setting appointments for MSPs, we’re on the road quite a bit, attending industry events and meeting new professionals in our arena. Outside of a recent conference in Las Vegas, we met a fascinating Uber...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: AMCA Healthcare Hack
What is the threat? The compromise of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a third-party bill collection vendor, has potentially impacted the personal data of over 20 million patients across three laboratory services providers. Why is this noteworthy? Personal data...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: APT Group Uses Text-Based Steganography Attack Technique
What is the threat? On June 5, Kaspersky researchers revealed a highly sophisticated cyberespionage campaign by the advanced persistent threat (APT) group “Platinum” which employs new text-based steganography techniques to obscure their communication and install malware and a backdoor on...
Tech Time Warp: First mobile malware makes its debut
Back in the pre-smartphone days, an international group of hackers set out to prove no technology was safe from malware. In June 2004, the group 29A — 29A being the hexadecimal version of “666” — released the first virus targeting...
Drivers for cloud adoption are starting to go beyond IT cost concerns
A survey published by Infosys Knowledge Institute suggests that the primary reason organizations are embracing cloud computing is no longer just about lowering costs. The survey of 876 executives from organizations with over $1 billion in revenues operating in the...
Cryptojacking is making a comeback
Black Squid has washed up on the cyber-shores of the United States, after first being spotted in Thailand. Unlike its oceanic counterparts, this cyber squid is destructive. Beincrypto describes the threat like this: It uses tactics such as anti-virtualization, anti-debugging,...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Malware Campaign Targets Certain Windows Servers
What is the threat? A recent malware campaign is targeting Windows MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin based servers using different techniques. According to Guardicore Labs, the malware has breached over 50,000 servers that belong to companies in the healthcare, telecommunications, media and...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Phishing Email Scam Targets Companies by using Legal Threats
What is the threat? A recent phishing campaign targeting businesses using legal threats has been detected in which businesses are receiving emails claiming to be from law firms notifying them that they are being sued. The emails have a Microsoft...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Backdoor LightNeuron Targets Microsoft Exchange Servers
What is the threat? A security researchers group discovered a Backdoor called LightNeuron on May 7th, 2019. This backdoor specifically targets Microsoft Exchange Servers and is one of the first malware to obtain complete control over all the emails that...
Oracle alliance with Microsoft complicates cloud computing relationships
Cloud computing makes for strange bedfellows, but now that Oracle and Microsoft have agreed to work together to integrate Oracle Cloud services with the Microsoft Azure cloud, almost anything seems possible. The agreement between the two companies represents something of...
