FLASH – TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES ASSOCIATED WITH MALWARE WITHIN CHINESE GOVERNMENT-MANDATED TAX SOFTWARE
FLASH – TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES ASSOCIATED WITH MALWARE WITHIN CHINESE GOVERNMENT-MANDATED TAX SOFTWARE Summary The FBI says that all foreign companies are required by local Chinese laws to install this particular piece of software in order to handle value-added tax (VAT) payments to the Chinese tax authority. Organizations conducting business in China continue to […]
ATG Guardian: Alert
Recent RANSOMWARE threats against state and local government In response to the increase in ransomware attacks against state and local governments, please see this one-page document provided by govdelivery.com: three steps your department can take to protect your networks and data against adversaries. This document is provided courtesy of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency […]
ATG Guardian: Alert
PHISHING threat identified What happened? A malicious and successful email campaign is currently circulating and has affected users in our area. The email is generated by harvesting credentials to a user’s email account, then performing nefarious activities using these credentials. How was it identified? *The email contains fluent English language phrases that are consistent with […]
Brief synopsis about why we do it the way we do it!
Since 1995 I’ve connected a lot of computers to many networks. In the early days the functionality was simple: share some files on a server, run an application so that many users could update data or print to a common, expensive printer. As the years passed and the functions evolved, organizations that once worked without […]