Federal agencies have issued an unprecedented warning against “an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.” The joint cybersecurity advisory was published from the Cybersecurity Infrastructure...
Summary: On August 11th Microsoft published a security advisory for the critical vulnerability CVE-2020-1472, dubbed “Zerologon”. The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at Secura who published a whitepaper with...
Summary: On December 17th Citrix published a security bulletin for a recently discovered critical vulnerability in their Citrix ADC and Gateway (formerly known as NetScaler ADC, and NetScaler Gateway) products....
We were pleased to sponsor and attend the New York State Tech Summit on June 6-7, 2019! Chris Ackley, Channel Sales Manager and Chris Maulding, Sr. Security Engineer attended the...
Five cities traveled in the month of May! We have been busy and on the road through the month of May with one of our newer regional partners, Whalley Computers! ...
Quickly learn why your organization needs MTI powered by Vertek, and how it will protect you and your customers! Managed Threat Intelligence by Vertek from Vertek on Vimeo. Managed Threat...
Several Vertek team members had the privilege of attending Channel Partners April 9-12 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This event was a very good event for us, not only were...
There’s no doubt that today’s security information and event management (SIEM) solutions are powerful tools. Providing the best way to defend against dangerous cyber threats, a SIEM delivers a 360-degree...
Each day, the cybersecurity landscape is expanding in complexity and the volume of threats generated. The emergence of mobile computing and the introduction of new devices on the network opens...
IT compliance management is often a manual and tedious effort. It requires teams to monitor several IT security point products and pull together information from multiple sources to demonstrate compliance...
It used to be the case that perimeter security solutions were enough to keep the good guys in and the bad guys out of the enterprise network. The tools worked...
A Threat Intelligence Analyst on Vertek’s Cybersecurity team recently discovered a massive spam recipient list from a bad threat actor’s botnet after analyzing a malware sample that was distributed via...
Threat Summary On May 8th 2018 , Microsoft released critical security updates to patch a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the VBScript engine. The APT attack was discovered in...
Threat Summary This blog is regarding a memory corruption vulnerability in the equation editor of Microsoft Office that affects all versions from 2000 to Office 365. The vulnerability is being...
Summary There have been numerous reports of a new ransomware outbreak called BadRabbit, which started to spread via “drive-by” download attacks of infected sites imitating a fake Adobe Flash update....
What is DDE? DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) is a protocol used to transfer data between applications and provides the ability for applications to launch other applications. With DDE it’s quite...
Email campaigns pushing Locky ransomware are still very prevalent and continue to evolve. Encrypted files are now appended with the .asasin extension. This particular analysis shows that the threat actors...
