Category: Cybersecurity & Infosec

I do believe there are more attackers with skills to pull off a medium difficulty attack or script up malware and attack tools. Also, there are also many more who wish to make money in the cybercrime arena and don’t have any real ability. However, the fact that attack tools and Rent-a-Bot on the Dark Web are showing up sooner after their initial use (more sophisticated code) and the price is cheaper, means that the pervasiveness of attacks is on a rapid rise. The barrier of entry for new or novice attackers is lowered. Add to all this the new trend of leveraging IoT and distributed attacks, and you have a scary Internet. It will get worse before it gets better. http://www.cxotoday.com/story/distributed-cybercrime-is-making-attackers-multi-millionaires

“Yesterday, at the BlackHat Asia 2017 security conference, researchers from cyber-security firm Cylance disclosed two vulnerabilities in the firmware of Gigabyte BRIX small computing devices, which allow an attacker to write malicious content to the UEFI firmware.”