If I had to single out an individual development that elevated the sophistication of cybercrime by order of magnitude, it would be sharing. Code sharing, vulnerabilities sharing, knowledge sharing, stolen passwords and anything else one can think of. Attackers that …
Author: Dudu Mimran
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Until AI is intelligent enough to replace humans in complex tasks there will be an interim stage, and that is the era of human brain rental. People have diverse intelligence capabilities, and many times these are not optimally exploited due to living circumstances. Other people and …
Background The DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) 2016 competition has captured the imagination of many with its AI challenge. In a nutshell, it is a contest where seven highly capable computers compete, and a team owns each computer. Each group …
Chat bots are everywhere. It feels like the early days of mobile apps where you either knew someone who is building an app or many others planning to do so. Chat bots have their magic. It’s a frictionless interface allowing you to chat …
Smartphones will soon become the target of choice for cyber attackers—making cyber warfare a personal matter. The emergence of mobile threats is nothing new, though until now, it has mainly been a phase of testing the waters and building an …
Morphisec started warming its engines with two findings related to two recent in-the-wild exploitations: IN-THE-WILD, NUCLEAR KIT FOUND THAT AUTOMATICALLY GENERATES FLASH EXPLOIT VARIANTS ON-THE-FLY ENCRYPTED FLASH EXPLOIT THAT BYPASSES MITIGATIONS FOUND IN THE WILD
Israeli startup Morphisec, which develops cyber security prevention and detection tools, has closed a $7 million Series A funding round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), GE Ventures, Deutsche Telekom, Portage Advisors llc., and OurCrowd. The company has raised $8.5 …
Morphisec sheds some light on their anti zero-day product with their new website – check it out here.
Another excellent research from the Cyber Security Research Center @ Ben-Gurion University where your humble servant is serving as a CTO. The third one in the series of air-gap hacking breakthroughs where this time Mordechai Guri the lead researcher achieved …
Targeted attacks take many forms, though there is one common tactic most of them share: Exploitation. To achieve their goal, they need to penetrate different systems on-the-go. The way this is done is by exploiting unpatched or unknown vulnerabilities. More …
Imagine a futuristic security technology that can stop any exploit at the exact moment of exploitation—regardless of the way the exploit was built, its evasion techniques or any mutation it might have or was possibly imagined to have. This technology …
Public disclosure of vulnerabilities has always bothered me and I wasn’t able to put a finger on the reason until now. As a person who has been involved personally in vulnerabilities disclosure, I am highly appreciative for the contribution security …
Excellent post by Kira Makagon on Israel’s cyber revolution http://kiramakagon.com/israels-exciting-innovations-in-cyber-security/
Yet another new Ransomware with a new sophisticated approach http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/crypvault-new-crypto-ransomware-encrypts-and-quarantines-files/ Pay attention that the key section in the description on the way it operates is “The malware arrives to affected systems via an email attachment. When users execute the attached malicious JavaScript file, …
The main victims of any data breach are actually the people, the customers, whom their personal information has been stolen and oddly they don’t get the deserved attention. Questions like what was the impact of the theft on me as a …
After several years of running my blog on Typepad I moved back to wordpress! The control, modern UI, diversity of plugins and themes and connectivity to the social world made me stop being lazy
It has been a crazy two days at Israel’s Cyber Tech 2015…in a good way! The exhibition hall was split into three sections: the booths of the established companies, the startups pavilion and the Cyber Spark arena. It was like …
Researcher Mordechai Guri, guided by Prof. Yuval Elovici, has uncovered a new method to breach air-gapped systems. Our last finding on air-gap security was published in August of 2014, using a method called Air-Hopper which utilizes FM waves for data …
The beginning of the cyber park There are very few occasions in life where you personally experience a convergence of unrelated events that lead to something…something BIG! I am talking about Beer-Sheva, Israel’s desert capital. When I started to work …
One of the core problems with cyber criminals and attackers is the lack of a clear target. Cyber attacks are digital in nature and as such, they are not tied to a specific geography, organization and or a person – …
Overview The security level of a computerized system is as good as the security level of its weakest links. If one part is secure and tightened properly and other parts are compromised, then your whole system is compromised, and the …
Background Attackers are Stronger Now The cyber world is witnessing a fast-paced digital arms race between attackers and security defense systems, and 2014 showed everyone that attackers have the upper hand in this match. Attackers are on the rise due …
Microsoft and Google are bashing each other on the zero-day exploit in Windows 8.1 that was disclosed by Google last week following a 90 days grace period. Disclosing is a broad term when speaking about vulnerabilities and exploits – you can …
We had a very productive year at 2014 in Ben-Gurion’s cyber security labs. We published several research papers which got wide media coverage. The first finding was a vulnerability uncovered on Samsung’s KNOX phones. The vulnerability enables an attacker to intercept data …