Posts for category: Forensics Weekly Executive Summmaries

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending June, 02 2017

What is it? Crypto-Ransomware | Trojan What has it been dubbed? Uiwix What does it do? A ransomware variant of the infamous wannacry malware. Exploits the same vulnerability in SMBv1 and ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending May, 26 2017

What is it? Crypto-Ransomware What has it been dubbed? WannaCry | WannaCrypt | WCry | WanaCrypt0r What does it do? WannaCry began spreading on May 12 (according to experts at FireEye). The ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending April, 21 2017

What is it? Android Banking Trojan What has it been dubbed? BankBot What does it do? Android banking malware was leaked on an underground hacking forum. The source code was leaked with ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending April, 14 2017

What is it? IoT(Internet of Things) Malware What has it been dubbed? BrickerBot What does it do? BrickerBot is a piece of destructive malware that targets IoT devices. Permanent Denial of ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending April, 07 2017

What is it? mongoDB VulnerabilitiesWhat is a non-relational (NoSQL) Database? According to techopedia, non-relational database management systems are any databases that don’t follow the traditional ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending March, 17 2017

What is it? point-of-sale(PoS) malware What is it dubbed? MajicPoS What does it do it? The malware was first discovered by researchers at Trend Micro, and is very similar to other PoS ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending March, 10 2017

What is it? Adobe Flash Player Vulnerabilities What is the Adobe Flash Player used for? Adobe Flash Player is a software platform that runs video, animation, and games inside of web pages. Flash ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending March, 03 2017

What is it? SQL Injection Vulnerability What WordPress Plugin is Vulnerable? NextGEN Gallery What does it do? Security researchers at Sucuri have discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending February, 24 2017

What is it? Mac OS Ransomware What is it dubbed as? Patcher What does it do? Crypto-ransomware has been observed normally targeting Windows machine, though a new ransomware campaign has been ...

Weekly Executive Summary Week Ending February, 17 2017

Marcher Android Banking Trojan What is it? Android Banking Trojan What is it dubbed as? Marcher What does it do? The banking trojan uses two main attack vectors to capture user credentials ...