2021 was a banner year for cyber attacks. Compared to 2020, last year saw a 50% increase in attacks per week on corporate networks, even as the total cost of managing a cyber attack rose by 10%, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021. Add in the…

Malware authors use various techniques to obfuscate their code and protect against reverse engineering. Techniques such as control flow obfuscation using Obfuscator-LLVM and encryption are often observed in malware samples. This post describes a specific technique that involves what is known as metaprogramming, or more specifically template-based metaprogramming, with a…

With remote work, e-commerce activity and sophisticated breach capabilities at an all-time high, there is a perfect storm brewing. Identity fraud is not going away anytime soon. Take a look at nine common types of identity fraud, the warning signs and some identity management advice. This way, you can reduce…

Shopping online is an increasingly popular endeavor, and it has accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic. Online sales during the 2021 holiday season rose nearly 9% to a record $204.5 billion. Mastercard says that shopping jumped 8.5% this year compared to 2020 and 61.4% compared to pre-pandemic levels. Cyber criminals are…