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How Polymorphic Malware Evades Detection — And What to Do About It
Polymorphic malware is the kind of threat that changes its own code — its signature, its behavior, even the command-and-control server it reports to …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Emergency Episode: The PyPI Software Supply Chain Attack You Need to Know About
A PyPI software supply chain attack hit LiteLLM — a library pulled into developer environments 97 million times a month — and if you use it, you may …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Fileless Malware: The Attack That Lives in Memory
Fileless malware is one of the most dangerous attack types out there — it never writes to your hard drive, lives entirely in RAM, and can steal your …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Living Off the Land Attack: Hackers Using Your Own Tools Against You
A living off the land attack is one of the sneakiest techniques in a ransomware operator's playbook — and in this episode, Dr. Mike Saylor breaks dow…
3 months ago
New Research Exposes Password Manager Vulnerabilities in LastPass, Bitwarden & Dashlane
Password manager vulnerabilities aren't just about bad code — and a new research paper out of Zurich just proved it. Researchers analyzed three of th…
3 months, 1 week ago
What Is an Initial Access Broker — and Why Should You Care?
What is an initial access broker — and why does it matter to your organization? In this episode, W. Curtis Preston and Prasanna Malaiyandi are joined…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Ransomware as a Service: How Anyone Can Buy a Cyberattack
Ransomware as a service has turned cybercrime into a franchise business — and in this episode, Dr. Mike Saylor and I break down exactly how it works,…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The CryptoLocker Virus and the Birth of Modern Ransomware
The cryptolocker virus was the attack that turned ransomware from a nuisance into a full-blown criminal industry — and in this episode of The Backup …
4 months ago
A Brief History of Ransomware
A history of ransomware is more than just dates and names—it's the story of how criminals evolved from mailing infected floppy disks in 1989 to runni…
4 months, 1 week ago
How Ransomware Works: The Five Objectives of Every Attack
Understanding how ransomware works is critical for anyone responsible for protecting their organization's data. In this episode of The Backup Wrap-up…
4 months, 2 weeks ago