Reading Time: 4 minutes In a rather new trend, cybercriminals have begun to spread malware by spoofing printers and scanners. These types of attacks started making headlines in late November 2017, after security researchers at Barracuda Labs witnessed an attack in which cybercriminals spoofed a printer to send a malicious attachment that appeared to be a legitimate file sent…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Cybersecurity in 2017 was a long, winding road with many surprising obstacles. Every other week, there seemed to be a new widespread cyberthreat wreaking havoc, followed by the emergence of new and/or improved security technologies to counter the attack. We saw an influx of Internet of Things (IoT) hacks, increasing nation-state attacks globally, massive breaches…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you ready for 2018?  If you were not a headline in the 2017 blizzard of cyber breaches, then you’re better off than your peers at Equifax, Dun & Bradstreet, Gmail, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Verizon, and Hyatt. If you’re following these stories at all, then you’re likely aware you and your organization are…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Every cybersecurity responsible person knows the power of paranoia. Assume nothing, test everything, and then do it again. Here are three basic questions to ask: 1. How close a relationship does your cybersecurity provider have with the people who you want to be protected against? If your government will not do business with them because…

Reading Time: 1 minute When you use a company’s security solution, you are placing your reputation in their hands, and you must trust their ability to think through how they maintain security of the information they are managing, as well as the protection their solution is providing to your business directly. Comodo has an in-house lab to validate the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Surely there are very few in the US, or among Internet-connected citizens elsewhere, who are not aware of the massive security breach suffered by Yahoo in 2013, but only recently acknowledged by the company. And it is really not as much the company that “suffered” the breach, as much as customers and consumers. In a…

Reading Time: 2 minutes A new kind of malware can turn speakers to microphones. Dubbed “SPEAKE(a)R” it can also make computers eavesdrop on the surroundings. That’s not all – it can listen even without being connected to a microphone! The capabilities of this malware was demonstrated by Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The ability to…

Reading Time: 3 minutes A cyber criminal collective known as the Cobalt Group is suspected to be behind the ATM malware “touchless jackpotting” attacks across 14 countries in Europe, including Netherlands, Russia, Britain, Poland, Romania and Spain. The group gets its name from their infamous penetration tool – “Cobalt Strike – Advanced Threat Tactics for Penetration Testers.” Infected ATMs…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Comodo Threat Research Labs (CTRL) has announced that it has detected a new family of financial malware dubbed as “Gugi/Fanta/Lime”. It is a sophisticated Banking Trojan that can bypass the standard security protocols of an Android operating system (version 6), and take over the operating system. The financial malware seeks system privileges and user credentials,…

Reading Time: 3 minutes On Sep 22, 2016, Yahoo issued a press release: “A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor. The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of…