Most of the healthcare organizations lack resources to implement a robust cybersecurity plan. A lot of medical devices are not up to date when it comes to cybersecurity. They still run on a legacy OS. Hence the hospitals cannot just upgrade to the latest version of the OS. And some of these devices are heavily priced. As we all know when a OS reaches End Of Life, it is not supported and no updates are available. This makes the whole setup vulnerable.

Malware attacks are a nightmare for every modern organization. We all for sure heard about Advanced persistent Threats (APT) but there is another stealthier attack vector that appeared lately called Advanced Volatile Threats (AVT) which uses Fileless Malware to attack the targets.

Performing static analysis is not enough to fully understand malware’s true functionality. That is why running the malware in an isolated environment is the next step for the malware analysis process. During this phase, the analyst observes all the behaviors of the malicious binary. Dynamic analysis techniques track all the malware activities, including DNS summary, TCP connections, network activities, syscalls and much more. In this article we are going to learn more about dynamic analysis.

With an exponential rise in the corona virus cases, as of today nearly 800000 people have been infected and there has been an alarming rise in spear-phishing emails and phishing websites. Cyber criminals misuse these kinds of tragic events to extract information from unsuspecting victims. The panic in people makes them an easy target for cyber criminals. Email is the largest threat vector organizations must control to prevent further nefarious activity from occurring. For example, ransomware encrypting ventilators or medical devices during this time of crisis.