X-Industry

Last October 2020, researchers at US security company AdvIntel discovered that one of the Internet’s most troublesome malware platforms, Trickbot, had started testing something rather threatening: probing UEFI firmware chips inside targeted PCs to see whether they were vulnerable to known firmware vulnerabilities.  This was only reconnaissance, Trickbot was not infecting the SPI flash chip on which UEFI firmware resides, but the discovery is significant.

UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interfa

Our Red Sky Alliance research predictions for 2021 are not necessarily in any order of importance yet presented as what we believe are the most important.

Ransomware…Ransomware… Ransomware

2020 saw a dramatic rise in ransomware activity.  While it is difficult to predict specifically what ransomware authors will do next, it can be expected that they will continue to do what has worked well for them in the past if it continues as profitable.  Ransomware ‘payment’ amounts saw a 217% rise in 2020 f