by Jayendra Pathak | Apr 28, 2017 | Blog
Phishing scams exploit human weakness to gain access to sensitive information, and they are among the most common cyberattacks that individuals and businesses must protect against in the struggle to keep their information secure. Cybercriminals leverage different...
by Jayendra Pathak | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog
NSS Labs’ CAWS has been monitoring the activity of CVE-2017-0199, which was patched by Microsoft on April 11, 2017. According to Microsoft, CVE-2017-0199 is a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office and WordPad. This vulnerability was initially...
by Jayendra Pathak | Sep 21, 2016 | Blog
The fact that there are large numbers of vulnerabilities and exploits in major operating systems and large applications is no longer something known only by those in the security industry—as seen with the recent Shadow Brokers leak. Additionally, with market for...
by Jayendra Pathak | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
NSS’ Cyber Advanced Warning System (CAWS) performs daily scans of the top 100,000 domains, as ranked by Alexa (Amazon’s analytics service), to search for potential compromises and to determine whether these domains are hosting/serving drive-by downloads. CAWS is the...
by Jayendra Pathak | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog
Considerable time and effort has been spent in researching and weaponizing vulnerabilities for client applications, server operating systems, and server applications. To date, much less research has been done on network-based appliances. This is likely because it is...
by Jayendra Pathak | Nov 20, 2014 | Blog
Analysis of the Dropped Malware Name: v3k.exe MD5: 74CE6CB9F8B983297F936936BCABC698 SHA1: B76B514707CD560F973DD66124D2C1101D75078A SHA-2/256: 11F5F243E07BFD173F8EEC248ADF457540926CD7E0725381DA04C46E8C39A15B The malware is a little different to that which is typically...
