Meet Zscaler: Mission Accomplished — How Patrick Perry Transitioned from The...
You would never know from his unfailingly positive disposition and lighthearted nature that Patrick Perry has done seven overseas tours with the Army. He brought his team-first philosophy and...
View ArticleCyberGate RAT and RedLine Stealer Delivered in Ongoing AutoIt Malware Campaigns
In our most recent blog, we had detailed a malware campaign that uses a malicious document (DOC) file to deliver an AutoIt script which, in turn, delivers the Taurus stealer to steal credentials,...
View ArticleYour Appliances are Holding You Back. It’s Time to Break Free.
For more than 12 years, our founder and CEO, Jay Chaudhry, has been talking about how the cloud would become one of the biggest disruptors, changing the way we all do business. He envisioned a future...
View ArticleHow the Power of Storytelling Can Protect Your Organization from Security...
Harrison Lewis is the CIO of Northgate Gonzalez Market. His post originally appeared on LinkedIn. With an uptick in ransomware attacks and security incidents since the outbreak of COVID-19, the...
View ArticleYou Deserve Better Than a Branch Firewall
Firewalls have long been an integral part of the branch network architecture. But recent trends have turned the once-sturdy firewall into something of a relic and are driving organizations to move...
View ArticleDeep Dive Into the M00nD3V Logger
ThreatLabZ observed a multifunctional information-stealing Trojan named "M00nD3V Logger'' that is being dropped by a multistage loader. Due to its multiple stealing features, M00nD3V Logger has...
View ArticleZscaler, a 2020 Honoree of the Cybersecurity Impact Awards
We are honored to share that Zscaler has been selected as a 2020 Cybersecurity Impact Awards honoree. The Cybersecurity Impact Awards recognize Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia-based companies,...
View ArticleMerger Acceleration: How ZTNA Speeds M&A Time to Value
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn on July 7, 2020. After all the effort and long legal hassle, the mission is accomplished: Your merger or acquisition is complete! Two companies are now one....
View ArticleSecurity Advisory: Windows DNS Server Vulnerability ( CVE-2020-1350)
Background Today is July 2020 Patch Tuesday, and Microsoft has released updates/fixes for multiple vulnerabilities. One of them is a critical vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10. What is the issue?...
View ArticleHow Information Security Within the Department of Defense is Evolving
Businesses around the globe are moving to the cloud for the multitude of benefits it offers. Those benefits have not gone unnoticed by government agencies, which are looking for a secure way to share...
View ArticleNew Voicemail-Themed Phishing Attacks Use Evasion Techniques and Steal...
In July 2020, researchers at ThreatLabZ observed an increase in the use of voicemail as a theme for social engineering attacks. Through the intelligence gathered from the Zscaler cloud, we discovered...
View ArticleModernizing Security with Six Capabilities for Zero Trust Architectures
Security modernization is top of mind for most organizations, especially with increasingly complex hybrid environments and the need to support a remote workforce. At the same time, IT budgets are...
View ArticleHow the Cloud Helps San Mateo County CARE for its Employees and Citizens
Sean Thakkar is the Deputy CIO for the County of San Mateo, California. His post originally appeared on LinkedIn. When I travel across San Mateo County’s 100 miles of shoreline, with its secluded...
View ArticleAndroid Spyware Targeting Tanzania Premier League
The Zscaler ThreatLabZ team is always hunting for malware out in the wild. Recently, there have been endless cases where attackers were targeting mobile users with malware leveraging the COVID-19...
View ArticleCybercriminals Targeting Multiple Vulnerabilities in WordPress Plugins
WordPress is, by far, the most popular open source software used to build and host websites. So much so that, according to a July 2020 survey, around 455,000,000 websites are using WordPress. Overall,...
View ArticleMeet Zscaler: Language, Localization, and Learning - How Isabella Muma Found...
From the journalism spotlight in Cameroon to making waves behind-the-scenes at Zscaler in Munich, Isabella Muma has had a remarkable journey. Fluent in three languages, she supports almost every team...
View ArticleA New Paradigm Shift Threatens the Fate of VPN
If you’d told me five months ago that today I would be solely working out of my home office in San Jose, California, I would have said you were crazy. As each month has passed, I have begun to realize...
View ArticlePurpleWave—A New Infostealer from Russia
Infostealer is one of the most profitable tools for cybercriminals, as information gathered from systems infected with this malware could be sold in the cybercrime underground or used for credential...
View ArticleDirty Devices: Are They on Your Network?
When COVID-19 was first declared a pandemic, companies scrambled to get employees working away from the office as quickly as possible. The speed at which this shift needed to happen posed some serious...
View ArticleDay in the Cloud: Education and Entertainment For a Good Cause
Trying to get a large group of people together—even for a good cause—seems like a near impossibility these days. Still, it’s important—maybe more important than ever—to continue learning and...
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