This article offers a glimpse into the inner workings of the Interplanetary Storm botnet, provides an exhaustive technical analysis of the Golang-written binaries along with an overview of the protocol internals and finally, some attribution information. (more available)

This report looks at the 10 most impactful factors in cybersecurity success for the next decade.

Bitdefender researchers recently investigated a sophisticated APT-style cyberespionage attack targeting aninternational architectural and video production company, pointing to an advanced threat actor and a South Korean based C&C infrastructure. (more available)

This report analyzes the Mac specific malware from APT28 named Trojan.MAC.APT28

The DarkHotel attack Inexsmar from 2016 has striking similarities to attacks from as early as 2011. Inexsmar is also focusing on political targets rather than the group’s normal choice of senior corporate officials, corporate research, and development personnel. (more available)

This study explores the pressures cloud migration place on 1,051 IT security professionals from large enterprises with 1,000+ PCs and data centers, based in the US, the UK, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. (more available)

An October 2016 Bitdefender survey of 250 IT decision makers in the United States in companies with more than 1,000 PCs, shows they will rise in companies’ hierarchies, as CEOs and board members face increasing internal and external security risks that could ruin customer trust and business forecasts. (more available)

“This report is based exclusively on information collected via a wide range of security services within GravityZone: Security for Virtualized Environments, Security for Endpoints, Security for Mobile and Security for Exchange, consumer-oriented products such as Bitdefender Antivirus, Bitdefender Internet Security or Bitdefender Total Security, as well as from Bitdefender BOX, the innovative solution for protecting devices in the IoT space. (more available)

Virtualization is a strategic priority at large companies, and trust plays a crucial role in their choice of cloud service provider and in determining the type of data they store outside company infrastructure, according to a Bitdefender survey of 503 IT decision makers at companies in the US, the UK and Germany with more than 1,000 PCs. (more available)

This is a solid breakdown of the Ransomware issues as seen in 2017.

This paper seeks to answer the following questions, “What motivates victims to pay up? How much do they value their data? (more available)

From The Report, “Just as hyperconvergence in the data center will have a huge impact on how systems and data are managed, it will have significant repercussions for information security. (more available)