Tag: fortinet
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VB2019 paper: Medical IoT for diabetes and cybercrime
It is estimated that between 8% and 9% of the population worldwide suffers with some form of diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes typically have to measure their blood glucose levels several times a day and adjust their treatment according to the results. Traditionally, this has been done by means of the person pricking their…
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Latest Virus Bulletin report shows the difference web security products make
Extremely targeted attacks aside, when a user gets infected through the web, it means something has happened that should not have. Either the user clicked on a link they shouldn’t have clicked on, or they were browsing the web using unpatched software. Unfortunately, in both large and small organisations, these things happen a lot. And…
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Latest Virus Bulletin report shows the difference web security products make
Extremely targeted attacks aside, when a user gets infected through the web, it means something has happened that should not have. Either the user clicked on a link they shouldn’t have clicked on, or they were browsing the web using unpatched software. Unfortunately, in both large and small organisations, these things happen a lot. And…
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New paper: A review of the evolution of Andromeda over the years
In December last year, a joint operation involving law enforcement agencies and many security firms led to the dismantling of the Andromeda botnet, also known as Gamarue or Wauchos. Such takedowns have become a common feature in the fight against online crime, though there have been many instances where a disrupted botnet has subsequently been…
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New paper: A review of the evolution of Andromeda over the years
In December last year, a joint operation involving law enforcement agencies and many security firms led to the dismantling of the Andromeda botnet, also known as Gamarue or Wauchos. Such takedowns have become a common feature in the fight against online crime, though there have been many instances where a disrupted botnet has subsequently been…
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VB2016 preview: Mobile Applications: a Backdoor into Internet of Things?
The recent discovery of a one-million-device IoT botnet used for DDoS attacks should be ample proof that concerns over the security of the Internet of Things are not merely theoretical. Unfortunately, the use of specific components and the wide variety among them makes reverse engineering such devices rather complicated. But it doesn’t need to be,…
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VB2016 preview: Mobile Applications: a Backdoor into Internet of Things?
The recent discovery of a one-million-device IoT botnet used for DDoS attacks should be ample proof that concerns over the security of the Internet of Things are not merely theoretical. Unfortunately, the use of specific components and the wide variety among them makes reverse engineering such devices rather complicated. But it doesn’t need to be,…
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Virus Bulletin publishes first web filter test report
Virus Bulletin has been testing security products for more than 18 years, and in recent years, we have had many requests from product developers asking us to test their web security products. After all, whether malicious software is downloaded directly from websites or through sneaky drive-by downloads, the web remains an important infection vector. In…
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Paper: Obfuscation in Android malware, and how to fight back
Axelle Apvrille and Ruchna Nigam look at both off-the-shelf products and custom obfuscation techniques. After a relatively slow start, in recent years mobile malware has really taken off. In many ways, mobile malware has followed the same path as taken by malware targeting desktop PCs. We have seen mobile adware, spyware, fake anti-virus, banking trojans,…
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Commoditization increasingly seen in mobile malware
Number of malicious samples and families increase, as Android remains most popular mobile platform. As the number of mobile malware samples in existence continues to grow faster than ever, the mobile threat landscape is looking more and more like that of Windows . Five years ago, a poll of visitors to this website found that…