The number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday. There are many channels that attackers use for communicating with their…
Trend Micro brings intrusion detection back from cloud with Deep Discovery
Trend Micro today announced Deep Discovery, a threat detection tool designed to monitor network traffic in order to detect signs of stealthy attacks aimed at stealing corporate data. Deep Discovery is intended to focus on the question, “Is there human attacker activity in the network?” says Kevin Faulkner, senior enterprise…
Malware authors adopt domain generation algorithms to evade detection
Malware authors are increasingly adopting flexible domain generation algorithms (DGAs) in order to evade detection and prevent their botnets from being shut down by security researchers or law enforcement agencies. DGAs are generally used as a fallback mechanism for sending instructions to infected computers when the hard-coded command and control…
Malware Authors Expand Use of Domain Generation Algorithms to Evade Detection
Malware authors are increasingly adopting flexible domain generation algorithms (DGAs) in order to evade detection and prevent their botnets from being shut down by security researchers or law enforcement agencies. DGAs are generally used as a fallback mechanism for sending instructions to infected computers when the hard-coded command and control…
AlienVault creates centralised threat detection system
Open-source security information and event management (SIEM) vendor AlienVault has launched a new system for sharing threat intelligence among users of its OSSIM platform. SIEM technology provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by network hardware and applications. While the technology is used widely, OSSIM claims to have the largest…
Click Security launches intrusion detection appliance with analytics
Startup Click Security has launched a threat detection product that analyses and correlates intelligence gathered by sensors on network traffic and activity to provide real-time alerts or even automate defence response to network intrusions or other security threats. Click Security’s product, called the Automated Security Analytics Platform (ASAP), is designed…
Click Security launches intrusion detection appliance with analytics
Startup Click Security has launched a threat detection product that analyses and correlates intelligence gathered by sensors on network traffic and activity to provide real-time alerts or even automate defence response to network intrusions or other security threats. Click Security’s product, called the Automated Security Analytics Platform (ASAP), is designed…
Click Security launches intrusion detection appliance with analytics
Startup Click Security has launched a threat detection product that analyses and correlates intelligence gathered by sensors on network traffic and activity to provide real-time alerts or even automate defence response to network intrusions or other security threats. Click Security’s product, called the Automated Security Analytics Platform (ASAP), is designed…
StopTheHacker startup sets up website malware detection service
StopTheHacker launched yesterday with a set of services for detecting malicious code implanted in websites by hackers who compromise sites to try to launch attacks on visitors to infected web pages. Co-founder Michalis Faloutsos, who is also a computer science professor at University of California at Riverside, said that the…
Evolving Malware Shows How Evil Apps Will Evade Detection
Just a few days after Google announced new safeguards against malicious apps in its Android Market, one researcher is already offering a helpful reminder that the mobile malware cat-and-mouse game is just getting started. Last Friday, North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang wrote on his blog that his team…