Positive Technologies discovered four vulnerabilities in Pandora FMS, a Information Technology and Monitoring solutions provider. Over 50,000 companies across five continents rely on Pandora FMS to monitor their corporate networks, applications, servers, and other data sources. The vendor was notified of the vulnerabilities in line with the responsible disclosure policyRead More…
Positive Technologies launches its new corporate email security service, PT Knockin, which reveals corporate email security issues in just two minutes. PT Knockin is provided in both free and paid versions, making it a perfect fit for large corporations seeking cutting-edge protectionRead More…
Positive Technologies will join one of the largest information security exhibitions in the Middle East — GISEC Global 2024 — on April 23–25 in Dubai. Representatives from the company will focus on their experience automating security operations centres (SOCs) and how the MaxPatrol O2 metaproduct can automatically detect and stopRead More…
Positive Technologies Expert Security Center (PT ESC) discovered a new cybergroup called Lazy Koala. Experts confirm that the criminals use simple but effective attack techniques. Victims of the group include organizations from Russia and six CIS countries, with approximately 867 employee accounts compromised to date. As part of the threatRead More…
Positive Technologies has conducted comprehensive research into the activities of the APT groups targeting organisations in the Middle East. The experts say that 88% of the groups under review were attacking Saudi Arabia, and the five most attacked sectors were government agencies, manufacturing, telecommunications, the military-industrial complex, and energy. To gain initialRead More…
The vulnerability was found in the NPort W2150a and W2250a converters. These devices allow industrial controllers, meters, and sensors to connect to a local Wi-Fi network. Wireless access is necessary to control equipment located, for example, on moving objects (containers, elevators, robots) or in aggressive environments (chemical and metallurgical plants). The vendorRead More…
Positive Technologies is constantly refining its approach to result-driven cybersecurity: as part of the bug bounty programme Positive Dream Hunting, security researchers worldwide can attempt to trigger two non-tolerable events. The first person who can inject malicious code into the company’s products or steal money from its accounts will be rewardedRead More…
Yealink has thanked Positive Technologies for discovering the critical vulnerability BDU:2024-00482 in its Yealink Meeting Server videoconferencing system. Yealink is a prominent VoIP provider and is among five major online conferencing vendors. Its products are used in 140 countries. The vendor was notified of the threat per the responsible disclosure policy and released a software patch.Read More…
With 2023 behind us, 2024 is set to feature an astonishing landscape of change for organisations across the Middle East. In light of the region’s race towards digitalization, Positive Technologies, a leader in the result-driven approach towards cybersecurity, has revealed its annual predictions for the most anticipated in technological advancementsRead More…
Positive Technologies has analyzed cyberthreats relevant to the financial sector. Unique attacks on this industry doubled in Q3 2023 compared to the same period last year. Attackers primarily targeted the least secure organizations and their customers, most often with the help of malware. The percentage of encryption malware in suchRead More…
Positive Technologies is participating at AVAR 2023, the 26th edition of the AVAR International Cybersecurity Conference hosted by Dubai from November 28 to December 1. Members of the PT Expert Security Center (PT ESC) team will share their experience in developing open-source projects, using the DRAKVUF agentless sandbox as an example, andRead More…
Positive Technologies experts have presented a study of the Q3 2023 cybersecurity threatscape. The share of malware attacks remained unchanged from Q2 at 45%. The advent of decryption tools reduced the effect of encryption malware, causing its share to shrink. Ransomware gangs now threaten to publish stolen information without encrypting the compromisedRead More…
