30,000 Percent Increase in COVID-19-Themed Attacks
No, that is not a typo. Since January, we have seen an increase of 30,000% in phishing, malicious websites, and malware targeting remote users—all related to COVID-19. In January, we saw (and blocked)...
View ArticleZscaler Recognized as a 2020 Bay Area Best Place to Work and We’re Hiring!
Zscaler has been recognized as one of the 2020 Bay Area Best Places To Work by the San Francisco Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Awards and recognition are always gratifying, but this...
View ArticleCompromised WordPress Sites Used to Distribute the Adwind RAT
With more than 60 million websites, including 33.4 percent of the top 10 million global websites, built on the WordPress platform, it is big news when a new attack aimed at this popular tool surfaces....
View ArticleAppliances or the Cloud? The Choice is Simple.
“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” This was written by George Bernard Shaw back in 1944. Yet, it might be more relevant today than...
View ArticleZscaler Coverage for the Maze Ransomware
In this blog, the Zscaler ThreatLabZ team provides details on the Maze ransomware. Background On April 18, 2020, Cognizant confirmed a security incident causing service disruptions for some of its...
View ArticleResurgence of the QakBot Stealer from Newly Registered Domains
The Zscaler ThreatLabZ team is constantly on the lookout for trending and evolving techniques used by malware authors to infiltrate victims' machines, steal information, and carry out other malicious...
View ArticlePreserving the Supply Chain That Helps Military Researchers Battle COVID-19
Marc De Serio is the Chief Technology Officer of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF). You can read the full HJF case study here. We all find ourselves...
View ArticleWith Employees at Home, Is Collaboration Suffering?
Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and other collaboration tools are critical for your growing at-home workforce to stay as productive at home as they are in the office. But all of this traffic...
View ArticleGROWMARK is Sowing Success While Working From Home
Eric Fisher is the Director of IT Enterprise Systems at GROWMARK, Inc. Resiliency and business continuity are critical for GROWMARK as our operations affect others far beyond our own business. Our...
View ArticleTargeted Attacks on Indian Government and Financial Institutions Using the...
It is not uncommon for cybercriminals to target specific countries or regions. They often employ this strategy In April 2020, ThreatLabZ observed several instances of targeted attacks on Indian...
View ArticleTwo Zscaler Leaders Recognized as CRN Women of the Channel
I’m excited to announce that two members of the outstanding Zscaler channel team have been recognized by CRN in its annual Women of the Channel awards: Alison Leonard-Morgan, Channel Alliances Manager,...
View ArticleJohnson Controls Accelerated its Cloud Transformation to Deliver Life-Safety...
Peter Daly is the Director of Network Services – Global Infrastructure at Johnson Controls Since the first days of 2020, the year has been extraordinary on many fronts—for the global community, for my...
View ArticleZscaler Becomes the First and Only Zero Trust Remote Access Service to...
This week, Zscaler achieved an important milestone in our commitment to serve our U.S. federal government customers when Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) became the first and only zero trust remote access...
View ArticleHow an Outage Prepared CAPTRUST for a Pandemic
Jon Meyer is the CTO of CAPTRUST The past couple of months have, at times, seemed more like a movie script than actual reality. Fortunately, this movie we are living through includes scenes that make...
View ArticleGlupteba Campaign that Exploits MikroTik Routers Still at Large
As we have written about before, cybercriminals will look to exploit vulnerabilities in all types of equipment, including VPNs, routers, and more. One such campaign that emerged in the latter part of...
View ArticleYour Workforce. Powered by You.
Today, the enterprise looks very different from a decade ago. With users leaving the office to work from anywhere, and more private applications moving to the cloud than ever before, today’s attack...
View ArticleLatest Version of Amadey Introduces Screen Capturing and Pushes the Remcos RAT
The Zscaler ThreatLabZ team is continually monitoring known threats to see if they re-appear in a different form. One such threat we've kept an eye on is Amadey, a bot of Russian origin, which was...
View ArticleUpdate on JavaScript Skimmer Enhancements
Card skimmer groups continue to find different ways to compromise e-commerce websites while trying to remain undetected for long periods of time. To remain undetected, they attempt to hide skimmer code...
View ArticleZero Trust and its Role in Securing the New Normal
As the global crisis around COVID-19 continues, security teams have been forced to adapt to a rapidly evolving security landscape. Schools, businesses, and healthcare organizations are all getting work...
View ArticleMeet Zscaler: How Becky Miller Balances Profession and Passion
Working at Zscaler has been a transformative experience for Becky Miller, deployment services project manager on the deployment services team, but her love of animals and sports helps enrich her life...
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