Answering Your Emotet Questions from the Webinar, Emotet: Taming a Wild Trojan

On June 12, we hosted a deep-dive technical webinar on Emotet, featuring Robert Bigman, former CISO at the CIA, and James Wright, VP Engineering and Threat Research at Bromium In this blog, we answer your Emotet questions submitted during the webi… Continue reading Answering Your Emotet Questions from the Webinar, Emotet: Taming a Wild Trojan

Introducing the Bromium Threat Insights Report

This report is made possible by customers who opted to share their Bromium-isolated threat data with Bromium, which our experts compiled into a Threat Insights Report Bromium Threat Insights Report is designed to share intelligence about the most notab… Continue reading Introducing the Bromium Threat Insights Report

Preview Pain: Malware Triggers in Outlook Preview Without User Opening Word Document

A recent malware sample forwarded to our Threat Intelligence service had some very interesting properties which we think would be useful to share. The sample itself is a Word document which is emailed as part of a phishing attack. If the user interacts… Continue reading Preview Pain: Malware Triggers in Outlook Preview Without User Opening Word Document

Emotet: How It Might Infect Your PC

The most prolific malware that Bromium has been seeing in customer environments over the last three months has been Emotet. Since this appears to be the preferred malware campaign of the moment, I wanted to give a technical breakdown on how your PC mig… Continue reading Emotet: How It Might Infect Your PC

See Our Threat Analysis of University College London Ransomware Attack

Ransomware has hit the news again in the UK today only a few short weeks since the WannaCry outbreak crippled the National Health Service. This time University College London (UCL) was hit by a ransomware strain which has resulted in them having to take down parts of their network to stop infected machines harming key university […]

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See Our Threat Analysis of University College London Ransomware Attack

Ransomware has hit the news again in the UK today only a few short weeks since the WannaCry outbreak crippled the National Health Service. This time University College London (UCL) was hit by a ransomware strain which has resulted in them having to take down parts of their network to stop infected machines harming key university […]

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The Future of Net Neutrality

According to the Oxford Dictionary, net neutrality is “the principle that internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.” Simply put, net neutrality ensures that service providers don’t give preferential treatment to websites and content providers they happen to […]… Read More

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WannaCry Ransomware Racing Around the World, Wreaking Havoc

This is a special rapid response blog to breaking news about the WannaCry ransomware attack that is now being seen in more than 100 countries. We’ll be updating our blog with additional news as we learn more.  “No x-rays/bloods/bleeps/phones/notes. This is unprecedented. It will be a miracle if no-one comes to harm.” This dramatic tweet […]

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The Economist on the Cyber Security Industry

A recent copy of the Economist caught my eye with the front page headline of “Why computers will never be safe”. For a non-technical publication they have managed to give some great insight into the reasons why the security industry has a problem. The article calls out how profitable it is for hackers to exploit a vulnerability, […]

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Hacker Mindset: The Future of Encryption

In my ongoing blog series “Hacker Mindset,” I explore an attacker’s assumptions, methods, and theories, including how information security professionals can apply this knowledge to increase cybervigilance on the systems and networks they steward. In this article, I explore the intense debate surrounding encryption and what it means for policy makers and consumers alike. Cryptography […]… Read More

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