Top Cyber Threats to the Telecom Industry
In our interconnected society, the telecom industry is responsible for keeping the world connected 24/7. The telecommunication infrastructure uses satellites, internet providers, mobile phones, cloud, and IoT devices to achieve this goal. This widespread adoption makes this sector very attractive to cybercriminals. Cyberattacks against telecom companies have risen because one successful attack gives attackers access […]
Top Cyber Threats for the Telecom Industry to Watch in 2024
In our interconnected society, the telecom industry is responsible for keeping the world connected 24/7. The telecommunication infrastructure uses satellites, internet providers, mobile phones, cloud, and IoT devices to achieve this goal. This widespread adoption makes this sector very attractive to cybercriminals. Cyberattacks against telecom companies have risen because one successful attack gives attackers access […]
Top Cyber Threats to the Manufacturing Sector
Manufacturers are building automated workflows for alert triage, incident response, and threat hunting to meet a rising volume of threats.
Make your First Malware Honeypot in Under 20 Minutes
For a free honeypot, you can use one of the several open-source options listed below. A “honeypot” is a metaphor that references using honey as bait for a lure or trap. Honeypots have served many purposes in history, including recruiting spies and catching criminals in real life. Honeypots have also long made their way into […]
Intezer Analyze Transforms for Maltego
We are happy to introduce the Intezer Analyze plugin for Maltego. Combine insights from our malware analysis platform with Maltego’s graphical tool (And you know we love graphs). Maltego is a graphical intelligence tool based on open-source intelligence and forensics data. It enriches data by making connections between different entities such as files, network, accounts and more. Data linking is done […]
2020 Set a Record for New Linux Malware Families
Intezer’s 2021 X-Force Threat Intel Index Highlights It was a lot of fun collaborating with IBM on their 2021 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, highlighting how cyberattacks evolved in 2020 as threat actors sought to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, banking trojans and ransomware were the top innovators in malware code evolution. This year our […]
ChinaZ Updates Toolkit by Introducing New, Undetected Malware
Introduction ChinaZ is a Chinese cybercrime group and the author of several DDoS malware. We have profiled this group in a previous article discussing connections between ChinaZ and other Chinese threat actors. Recently, we have discovered new tools being utilized by ChinaZ which have low detection rates in comparison to the group’s other, more common malware. VirusTotal […]
Intezer Analyze Community: Buhtrap, Divergent, Kronos, and More
In this month’s community highlights we see a range of malware types, including banking trojans, exploit kits, and nation-state sponsored threats. 1) Divergent [Link to Analysis] Divergent is a malware family which is used for generating profit, mainly by taking advantage of click-fraud techniques against its victims. This malware causes an infected machine to issue requests to […]
Intezer Analyze Community Halloween Edition: Trickbot or Treat!
In the spirit of Halloween we’re spotlighting three “spooky” threats detected by the Intezer Analyze community in October. And as a special treat, we’re giving away three code-based YARA signatures, made possible by our Genetic Malware Analysis technology, which can be used to hunt for additional variants of these threats! 1) Trickbot [Link to Analysis] […]
Russian Cybercrime Group FullofDeep Behind QNAPCrypt Ransomware Campaigns
Introduction We previously reported on how we managed to temporarily shut down 15 operative QNAPCrypt ransomware campaigns targeting Linux-based file storage systems (NAS servers). We have now identified a new QNAPCrypt sample which is being used by the same threat actor group. The authors behind this new ransomware instance have revealed enough evidence for us […]