And Now There’s MaaS: "Malware as a Service!"
The cyber arms race just got crazier. You’ve heard of SaaS…DaaS… now there’s MaaS – “Malware as a Service,” empowering and enabling cyber criminals.
The threat landscape continues to evolve—individual and state-backed hackers and agencies become increasingly emboldened to compromise websites and servers, steal CPU cycles for cryptocurrency mining, embark on social engineering efforts to find backdoors, and sway public opinion through fake news and other measures. zvelo provides the most advanced URL/IP categorization database for web filtering, whitelists and blacklists, and residential and business protections against bad actors and malicious online behavior. Explore zvelo’s Cybersecurity and threat intelligence data feeds for industry leading malicious and phishing exploit detection and the most advanced cyber threat intelligence available to OEMs and device manufacturers.
Mobile Security Vendor Makes Web Safe with zvelo
The Mobile Security Vendor was looking for ways to differentiate its smartphone security offering by adding Web browsing protection against compromised and malicious websites, as well as the ability to provide…
DetailsPre-emptive ad fraud detection = protection
On June 26th, Kathy Leake, CEO of Qualia, wrote a very thoughtful column entitled “We Need Clearer Fraud Definitions, More Standard Measurement.” In it, she called for fraud definitions to be agreed upon between buyers and sellers and for pre-emptive fraud protection. We couldn’t agree more! On the fraud definitions, there are very clear cases…
The Magnitude of the Breach
The Magnitude of the Breach On Thursday, June 4, it was announced that there was a large breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) of the federal government. The Chinese are fingered in the breach, in which about 4 million people’s records were lost in the attack, and the Chinese government denied being responsible,…
WiFi Vendor Blocks Malicious Websites with zvelo
The Solution Provider had carved out a large and growing market of professionals and business travelers who required secure, safe Internet access and browsing, combined with the convenience and availability of…
DetailsBig Data Analytics Provider integrates zvelo for Mobile Analytics
The prospect, a leading provider of big data analytics solutions, had identified a need to capture, curate, categorize and visualize the massive amounts of web usage data sets stemming from mobile service providers…
DetailsCrowdsourced Security for Web Threat Intelligence
If we have a thousand monkeys typing away on a thousand typewriters, surely they can produce great works of literature – or so goes the popular adaptation of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. But in the context of information security, a similar idea has been taking shape in past few years. Crowdsourced security, leveraging on input from a host of geographically dispersed systems, is slowly gaining ground as a means to provide actionable threat intelligence for both the public and private sectors.
To WWW or Not to WWW? – zvelo categorization
If one performs the search “use www or not,” well over a billion results in many of the most popular search engines are returned. The focus of each result may differ. For zvelo, the usage is irrelevant because its contextual categorization processes are designed to identify and handle each component of a URL. At a simplistic view, the basic components of a URL are the following:
Data Protection – What to Ask After a Data Breach?
Cybercrime against high-profile entities like eBay and Target is on the rise, and the media has conjured up nightmarish scenarios of cyber-criminals going on shopping sprees with our well-earned cash – easily obtained through stolen credit card information. The risks that the general public faces vary and should not be applied equally.
Top websites are targets for malvertising
The importance of the Alexa top websites can never be discounted in zvelo’s day-to-day operations. Providing contextual data sets about the Alexa top sites is a vital element for the online advertising market because it can assist in determining the most ideal and brand-safe placement of online ads and other promotional materials.