6 Tips for Remote Workers to Avoid Cybercriminals
Remote workers can be especially vulnerable to cyberattacks. Here are six ways to prevent that The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every facet of our daily lives, including the ways cybercriminals exploit their victims. There has been a rapid surge in threats taking advantage of consumers’ fears of the virus, with ... Read More
IoT traffic in the enterprise is rising. So are the threats.
Do you know exactly what IoT devices are on your network and how active they are? You’d better, because they might be opening the door to cybercrime. IoT devices are, of course, nonstandard computing devices that connect wirelessly to a network and have the ability to transmit data. These devices ... Read More
Critical Update: Windows Remote Desktop Services Vulnerability
Background Earlier today Microsoft released several security updates as part of its regular monthly updates known as Patch Tuesday. One of the issues that was patched in today's update, CVE-2019-0708, is critical, and all Windows users should apply the patches immediately, regardless of whether or not they are running the ... Read More
Working together to understand the threat landscape
As a society, we are more connected than ever before. Our community is no longer just the people living nearby. It is now a global community, made up of disparate individuals connected not by proximity but by the internet. As in almost any community, crime is a factor. In today’s ... Read More
What’s hiding in encrypted traffic? Millions of advanced threats.
Once seen as the ultimate protection for data being transmitted over the internet, encryption has become a vast playground for cybercriminals. Zscaler ThreatLabZ, the research organization at Zscaler, analyzed the encrypted traffic traversing the Zscaler cloud in the second half of 2018 and prepared a report of our findings. The ... Read More
The Top 10 ThreatLabZ blogs from 2018
The Zscaler ThreatLabZ team is continually hunting new threats, analyzing them, and sharing their findings in blogs and reports on the Zscaler site. What follows are the most read and shared blogs of 2018. Android apps infected with Windows malware reemerge By Gaurav Shinde This blog explores apps available on ... Read More
2019 Will See Cybercriminals Eye Opportunities in Cryptocurrency and IoT to Launch Their Attacks
Cybercriminals never take vacations. They’re always scanning the horizon to see which new technologies are being adopted by legitimate enterprises and are therefore ripe to be exploited, or how to utilize trusted protocols to steal credentials of unsuspecting consumers. The coming year will be no different, but the tools in ... Read More
Cyber Monday: The biggest day for cyberattacks? Not by a long shot.
Last week, the Zscaler ThreatLabZ research team did an analysis of phishing attacks we’ve come across in our cloud leading up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The team had been seeing an increase in a variety of phishing activities, with targeted attacks and faked login pages designed to steal ... Read More
Zscaler ThreatLabZ Phishing Roundup
Phishing is an attempt to steal personally identifiable information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card details, date of birth, and other sensitive data. Typically, phishing targets a user with an email containing a link to a website that imitates a legitimate website the user might visit. As users have ... Read More
Cryptomining is here to stay in the enterprise
After Bitcoin hit highs above $19,000 in December, cryptocurrency has received even more attention as speculation about the currency continues. It should be no surprise then that there has been a rise in cryptomining activity. Cryptomining is “the process by which transactions are verified and added to the public ledger, ... Read More
