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Do you provide Anti-Malware solutions to business? We want to hear from you!

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Each month on IT Security Briefing we’ll be shining the spotlight on a different part of the cyber security market – in December we’re focussing on Anti-Malware solutions.

It’s all part of our ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help IT security buyers find the best products and services available today.

So, if you’re a Anti-Malware specialist and would like to be included as part of this exciting new shop window, we’d love to hear from you – for more info, contact Stuart O’Brien on stuart.obrien@mimrammedia.com.

Olympic Destroyer malware returns

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Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have revealed that the malware that caused crippling sabotage on networks during their year’s Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, has returned.

Olympic Destroyer caused digital havoc during the games, and while the activity seen by Kaspersky has not yet turned destructive, early indicators suggest similar activity and point to the same group behind both attacks.

This time, however, the group look to be targeting financial organisations in Russia, and worryingly, biological and chemical threat prevention laborites throughout Europe and the Ukraine.

Tactics include spearphishing emails that present themselves as coming from a college or acquaintance with a decoy document attached. The emails target specific groups associated with an event, with every document opened triggering a malicious micro allowing multiple scripts that enable access to the target computer to run in the background.

Researchers at Kaspersky noted that lures suggest that they were “probably prepared with the help of a native [Russian] speaker and not automated translation software,” along with ties to the Ukraine, too.

That said, during the Winter Games Destroyer planted several false flags that were meant to confuse and misdirect attribution, making it very difficult to determine the group behind the latest attacks.

In a post from the website, Kaspersky concluded: “The best thing we can do as researchers is to keep tracking threats like this. We will keep monitoring Olympic Destroyer and report on new discovered activities of this group.”

RECOMMENDED: ANTI VIRUS

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IT Security Briefing highlights some of the industry’s key suppliers of anti-virus solutions…

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Glasswall 

Glasswall’s patented deep file inspection, remediation, sanitisation and document regeneration technology eliminates the threat from document-based malware. Glasswall processes files such as PDF, Word, Excel and image files in milliseconds, without relying on detection signatures.

Glasswall does not look for bad but ‘looks for good’, checking every byte of a document against the manufacturer’s file design standard, completely disarming and regenerating clean, standard-compliant files whilst preserving their full usability. The technology seamlessly integrates within email architectures and via an API into web, file transfer, data guards and diodes to deliver real-time protection from file-borne threats.

www.glasswallsolutions.com

 

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Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks offers industry-leading solutions designed to solve mainstream IT problems – efficiently and cost effectively – while customer support and satisfaction remain at the heart of what it does.

Its products span three distinct markets, including: 1) content security, 2) networking and application delivery and 3) data storage, protection and disaster recovery. Barracuda simplifies IT with cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their networks, applications and data, regardless of where they reside.

Barracuda develops its products for ease of use and ease to deploy, to appeal to SMEs and the mid-market. Therefore, all of the documentation associated with its products is extremely easy for customers to digest and understand. Barracuda also maintains a continuous feedback loop including in-person seminars, user groups, online customer feedback forums, regular customer surveys and ongoing communication and assistance.

While Barracuda maintains a strong heritage in email and web security appliances, its award-winning portfolio includes more than a dozen purpose-built solutions that support all aspects of the network – providing organisations of all sizes with end-to-end protection that can be deployed in hardware, virtual, cloud and mixed form factors.

www.barracuda.com

If you’d like to highlight your Anti Virus solutions, contact lisa.carter@mimrammedia.com

Malware-infected prize handed out at cyber quiz

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Winners of a cyber security quiz in Taiwan got more than they bargained for when the prizes were given out – they received malware-infected USB thumb drives.

The quiz, which took place in December 2017, was hosted by the Taiwanese Presidential Office and included 250 8GB thumb drives as prizes. 54 contained malware.

Winners realised after inserting the thumb drive into computers and being alerted to the possible risks from antivirus software. An investigation by the Criminal Investigation Bureau found that the USB drives came from a third-party contractor and contained a strain of malware named XtbSeDuA.exe.

The malware was designed to collect data from infected devices and send information to a web server located ion Poland.

The Bureau has apologised to the Presidential Office and quiz participants.

Scottish Government outlines cyber security plans

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The Scottish government has outlined its cyber strategy in a 48-page document – The Public Sector Action Plan on Cyber Resilience.

 The plan offers details to local authorities, Government departments and NHS boards on best practices for protecting themselves against cyber attacks. The Scottish Government fast-tracked the strategy in wake of the global cyber attack in May when 11 Scottish health boards were targeted by hackers.

 Discussing the plan, First Minister John Swinney said it would “encourage all public bodies, large or small, to achieve common standards of cyber resilience,” before adding: “I want our public sector to lead by example on strengthening cyber security, to help ensure Scotland is ready to deal with all emerging threats.”

 Some £200,000 is to be made available for organisations to assess, identify and improve cyber security issues, while ministers will also write to chief executives of Scottish public bodies to urge them to ensure all firewalls and security procedures are up-to-date with companies in public service chains asked to demonstrate how they have protected themselves.

 Colin Slater, head of cyber security at PwC in Scotland said: “To date we’ve been reacting to cyber security using frameworks that are almost 30 years old. That’s not representative of the risk we’re dealing with these days.

 “During that attack NHS trusts couldn’t take appointments, they couldn’t do imaging, they couldn’t prescribe drugs, couldn’t admit patients. The ultimate consequence is that you can’t deliver your public service.

 “Cyber criminals are brilliantly tooled up, they’re very dogged, they’re very very clever and they’re very fast and agile.”

 Dr Keith Nicholson, joint chair of the National Cyber Resilience leaders’ board’s public sector steering group, said by following the plan “Scotland’s public sector will be better protected against cyber attacks to the benefit of both the organisation and the citizens of Scotland.”

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