Fact is stranger than fiction - One in Ten corporate shared folder contains Malware

A new study finds that of all the corporate files and folders tested, around one in 10 of them  contain some form of malware infection.

Netskope’s data in this instance comes from millions of users over the three full months of the second quarter

The only silver lining to this news, is that only around a quarter of the files and folders found to contain some form of malware had actually been shared between different people and companies, so the infections aren’t spreading like wildfire on cloud platforms.

For more info:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/researcher-finds-corporate-shared-folders-164026594.html

How secure is the Internet>? - few facts that could shed some light

Food for thought

Seventh most common TCP/IP protocol is telnet, and there are 15 million “good old, reliable, usually unencrypted telnet nodes out there, offering shells to anyone who cares to peek in on the clear text password as it's being used,”

There are 11.2 million nodes appearing to offer direct access to relational databases, and 4.5 million apparent printer services. Rapid7 also counted 7.8 million MySQL databases and 3.4 million Microsoft SQL Server systems. And 4.7 million systems expose one of the most commonly attacked ports used by Microsoft systems, 445/TCP.

About 75% of the servers offering SMB/CIFS services—a (usually) Microsoft service for file sharing and remote administration for Windows machines—reside in just six countries: The United States, China, Hong Kong, Belgium, Australia and Poland.”

For more info:
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/internet-rife-with-unencrypted/

Ladies and Gentlemen we have a new Crysis

Crysis has been silently and quickly gaining momentum, and is currently even more prevalent than Locky

Crysis encrypts virtually all file types – including those with no extension – on fixed, removable and network drives

Crysis can even run with administrator privileges, giving its encryption mechanism access to even more files.

 The attackers are typically seeking bitcoins worth between 400 and 900 euros

For more info:

http://www.scmagazine.com/low-profile-crysis-ransomware-suddenly-stealing-the-show/article/501564/