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SOC Prime grows its North American office

Delaware, USA – September 8, 2017 – SOC Prime, Inc. announces an expansion of its team in North America. Foluwa T. Rewane will lead our operations and customer communications in North America as an Executive Technical Account Manager. Foluwa has 15+ years of Technology Management experience that has allowed him to work within various aspects […]

Zeronsec, an international integrator becomes SOC Prime’s partner

London, UK – August 31, 2017 – SOC Prime, Inc. announces a new partnership with Zeronsec to assit in their goal of delivering architecture and services that support the most efficient and secure IT. Zeronsec joins our network as a successful multi-national integrator and we are excited about opportunities this partnership brings to both companies. […]

“Gazer” – a New Backdoor Used in Cyber espionage

LONDON, UK. – August 31, 2017 – Researchers from ESET reported on the advanced backdoor “Gazer” for cyber espionage, created by the infamous hacker group Turla. At the moment, four versions of this malware are detected in Europe, Asia and South America. The malicious campaign continues from 2016, and its primary targets are embassies, consulates, as well as international […]

Fileless Trojan JS_POMET and Cryptocurrency Miner TROJ64_COINMINER

LONDON, UK. – August 29, 2017 – Previously we wrote about the growing popularity of fileless attacks: the attack on the restaurant business in the United States and Sorebrect Ransomware. This month researchers from Trend Micro reported about completely fileless Trojan JS_POWMET.DE and a new cryptocurrency miner TROJ64_COINMINER.QO. These malware instances were designed to evade […]

SOC Prime’s CEO is invited to ArcSight Technical Advisory Board at HPE Protect 2017

LONDON, UK. –  August 25, 2017 – SOC Prime, Inc. announced that its CEO Andrii Bezverkhyi was invited to join ArcSight Technical Advisory Board this year at HPE Protect 2017. ArcSight Technical Advisory Board is comprised of security leaders and experts who have proved to have both knowledge and vision in the cybersecurity world. The […]

SOC Prime CEO Andrii Bezverkhyi and CCO Ruslan Mikhalov to speak at HPE Protect 2017

LONDON, UK. – August 23, 2017 – SOC Prime, Inc. announces that Andrii Bezverkhyi, CEO, will lead a session at HPE Protect 2017. Our executives Andrii Bezverkhyi and Ruslan Mikhalov were chosen as guest speakers to share their knowledge and experience during a session “ArcSight vs AI cyber weapons: A field report from the epicenter […]

SyncCrypt Ransomware is Delivered in JPG Files

London, UK – August 17, 2017 – Earlier this month, researchers from Kaspersky Lab noted that steganography was becoming an increasingly attractive technique for hackers and published a list of malware that used this technique. This week, a researcher from Emsisoft discovered a new Ransomware using steganography in the Delivery phase. The SyncCrypt virus is […]

PPSX files are used for malicious payload dropping

London, UK – August 15, 2017 – Adversaries continue to exploit CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability to deliver Trojans and rootkits. Recently, unknown hackers conducted a campaign against the financial sector, in which they used malformed RTF files.

Mamba Ransomware has been spotted in Saudi Arabia and Brazil

London, UK – August 10, 2017 – Mamba Ransomware appeared in 2016 and was one of the first viruses that encrypt not files, but whole hard drives. It uses a legitimate tool DiskCryptor for full disk encryption. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab report that creators of this Ransomware resumed attacks on corporations in August. Currently, this […]

Attack on Financial Institutions with a New Backdoor

London, UK – August 08, 2017 – There were at least five attacks on Russian-speaking companies between June 23 and July 27, as researchers from Trend Micro reported. The primary targets of these attacks were banks and mining companies.