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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: How Migration to Windows 10 Will Reduce the Risk of Threats
What is the threat? The end of life date for Windows 7 will be January 14, 2020 at which point support will no longer be offered by Microsoft. Computers running older versions of Windows will be susceptible to cyber-attacks and...

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: HOPLIGHT Malware
What is the threat? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have discovered a new malware variant called HOPLIGHT. The malware has been identified as the work of HIDDEN COBRA which refers to activity...

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Verizon Customers Targeted in Mobile Phishing Campaigns
What is the threat? A phishing campaign has been discovered in the wild targeting Verizon customers. This phishing campaign is mimicking Verizon customer support and trying to get information about customers’ Verizon accounts to gain access. The phishing emails ask...

Time to appreciate the thin line of cybersecurity defense maintained by MSPs
One of the toughest, and often thankless, roles in all of IT is that of the managed security services provider (MSSP). Most MSSPs know cyberattacks tend to come in waves. Cybercriminals like to mix up their attack vectors to avoid...

The MSP experience at Navigate 2019
Last week we were at the Navigate Conference in Melbourne. Navigate is a two-day event dedicated for managed IT services providers. It was great to see many MSP partners from Melbourne and other states flocking to the show, eager to...

Making sense of sensors
From pacemakers, to industrial thermostats, to traffic regulation devices, sensors are becoming as ubiquitous as the human population itself. Experts predict that 1 trillion networked sensors will be transmitting data around the world by 2022, emitting information from the mundane to the meaningful....

Four MSP opportunities to keep an eye on in 2019
Four months of 2019 are in the rear-view mirror, and after talking to MSP owners and security experts on a daily basis, there are some trends are emerging that I thought I’d share. AI is one area that seems to...

Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Mylobot Malware Brings New Sophistication to Botnets
What is the Issue? Researchers have discovered a New Windows malware whose origin traces back to the ‘Dark Web.’ The malware, dubbed Mylobot, pulls together a variety of strategies and techniques to gain a foothold on its targets and remain...