Category Archives: Injection Attacks

Intelligent Adversary Engagement: Deceiving the Attacker

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Traditional security isn’t always enough to keep attackers at bay. When it comes to sneaking into networks, detection will often only come after malicious traffic reaches systems such as next-generation firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems. Meanwhile, threat actors have free range. But if you can trick the attacker attempting to trick you, it’s […]

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Injection Vulnerabilities – 20 Years and Counting

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Injection vulnerabilities are one of the oldest exploitable software defects, which unfortunately are still prevalent today. Doing a simple search on cve.mitre.org com for the term injection returns with over 10,852 injection-related vulnerabilities in… Continue reading Injection Vulnerabilities – 20 Years and Counting→

I Can’t Believe Mirais: Tracking the Infamous IoT Malware

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Mirai malware is often perceived as a low-risk threat to enterprise security, but consumer devices in the home, when connected to corporate networks, can expose corporate networks to botnet attacks.

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Cryptojacking Attacks: Who’s Mining on Your Coin?

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X-Force data revealed that while browser-based cryptojacking was increasingly popular through most of 2018, cryptomining malware made a resurgence at the end of 2018 and into Q1 2019.

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IcedID Banking Trojan Spruces Up Injection Tactics to Add Stealth

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IBM X-Force analyzed modifications made to IcedID that help the banking Trojan act more stealthily on infected devices.

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Will We See the Rise of Vaporworms and Other New Fileless Attacks in 2019?

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The evolution of the new and difficult-to-detect category of fileless malware may soon take an insidious turn with the development of what some researchers are calling vaporworms.

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