From January through August, 45% of SIRT reported incidents were related to DDoS and 43% were password login attacks. The remaining 12% were reported incidents for things like malware infections, web attacks, or attacks that were not classified.

We also ranked the Top 20 most abused domains in December 2019 based on the adjusted malicious rate, which means that a domain is either a target of many squatting domains or most of these squatting domains are confirmed malicious.

The COVID-19 pandemic was the genesis of this new opportunity as the disease continues to impact businesses and economies worldwide. The net result is that 2020 has become the year of the teleworker. The use of online services from home and other remote locations became more critical than ever. Students are online.

While analyzing an attack against a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization, we discovered a variant of an OilRig-associated tool we call RDAT using a novel email-based command and control (C2) channel that relied on a technique known as steganography to hide commands and data within bitmap images attached to emails.

Accelerate Threat Resolution with DNS study reveal they most often use DNS to detect and block threats early in the kill chain, identify compromised devices, and investigate and respond to malware.