Earlier this year, in a country populated with over 50 million people, a series of protests began due to higher taxes, corruption and a healthcare reform proposed by the government. Although the government authorities had anticipated the protests would be widespread, no one suspected that a massive cyberattack would be launched on multiple assets of the government’s networks with the intent of bringing it down. Shortly after the attack began, a notorious group of hackers came forward and claimed responsibility for the three-wave attack lasting two weeks. The first wave of the attack came as a surprise to the government. The wave…
Author: David Gadnyx
2.1 million people over eleven counties in North Texas depend on Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD) for their water supply and flood control measures. As a critical part of our national infrastructure, they are well aware of the rising risk of advanced persistent threats, but they also have a small network team with no dedicated in-house security staff. So how does a team like the one at TRWD take on security and regain the upper hand? Should they find themselves face-to-face against sophisticated cybercriminals, it would be a true underdog story—but this small, savvy team in North Texas turned to…
Bratislava, July 26, 2021 — ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, has achieved ‘Champion’ status for the third year in a row in the latest Global Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix from Canalys, improving upon its 2020 matrix position with a focus on investment in enterprise services and partner training. Canalys is a leading global technology market analyst firm with a distinct channel focus, and strives to guide clients on the future of the technology industry and to think beyond the business models of the past. The 2021 Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix assessed 19 cybersecurity vendors on their global channel and market performance over the last 12 months. The Leadership Matrix combines partner feedback from Canalys’ Vendor Benchmark tool with an…
X Chillisoft is proud to announce its newly established relationship with Tripwire, Inc. As this exclusive distribution deal spans across Australia and New Zealand, Chillisoft is excited to work closely with Tripwire to expand it’s operations within both countries respectively. “Tripwire is an integral part of our business in Australia and New Zealand and we’re delighted to extend our relationship with them in Australia through this agreement,” said Alex Teh, CEO of Chillisoft. Tripwire is one of the industry’s best foundational security controls. For more info on this exciting alliance click here. For more info on what Tripwire provides to…
ESET Research: Android/FakeAdBlocker misuses URL shortener services and iOS calendars, and distributes trojans to Android devices Android/FakeAdBlocker malware distributes banking trojans, scareware and spam events Based on ESET telemetry, more than 150,000 instances of this malware were downloaded to Android devices from January 1 to July 1, 2021 India and Vietnam are among the most affected countries, including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mexico, and the United States BRATISLAVA, KOŠICE — July 20, 2021 — ESET Research has analyzed an aggressive advertising-based threat — Android/FakeAdBlocker — which downloads malicious payloads provided by its operator’s command and control server. Android/FakeAdBlocker usually hides…
Eugene Chan, Deputy Director Digital Services at the University of Auckland Business School, is a man with responsibilities. He and his team look after more than 150 physical and virtual servers and hundreds of virtual desktops that support at least 12,000 students and 600 faculty and staff. If anything goes wrong, he and the team have to fix it…fast. Regardless of the time or their location. Until recently, that meant lugging a laptop around and looking for Wi-Fi access if they received any alerts from users about system slowdowns. Now they can monitor server performance and ensure proactive management, wherever…
In 2019, we held the first CybersecCon. With an enthusiastic audience and lots of hard work that went into putting on the very first event, we’re proud to look back on some of the moments captured from the day!