Malware

Today’s columnist, Mark Kerrison of New Net Technologies, invokes David Bowie to get the point across that the vast majority of security issues are tied to changes.

Deep Instinct announced that it would back its product with a performance guarantee that delivers false positivity rates of less than 1 percent, plus a ransomware warranty of up to $3 million per company for a single breach.

Molson Coors reported a systems outage caused by a cybersecurity incident that delayed and may continue to disrupt parts of the company’s business, including its brewery operations, production and shipments.

Cognizant reportedly spent up to $70 million to remediate a Maze ransomware attack. Today’s columnist, Jerome Robert of Alsid, offers a fictitious account of what motivated the Maze operators and theorizes why they closed shop.

The malware, called RedXOR because it was compiled on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and uses a network data encoding scheme based on XOR, creates a backdoor in systems that gives an attacker near full control over infected machines.