We have recently been reacquainted with an old “thorn” in the form of an increase in the number of cases involving Qakbot (also known as Qbot). This malware campaign has been around since early 2007 but can still be extremely dangerous, even given its age. With this in mind, we’re sharing some information so that you can protect yourself from this attack.
Everyone in the industry is talking about the migration of Magento 1 websites to Magento 2 - we also recently wrote about it - Magento 1 Reaching End Of Life in June 2020 - What does it mean for you?. For our agency/developer readers, this will undoubtedly be a tricky conversation you’ve been having with your clients. And for those of you who have a Magento 1 website, the cost of migrating is probably one of the most significant hurdles holding you back.
If your eCommerce site is not built on Magento, you can stop right here… but for the thousands of people/companies that chose to create their site on the powerful Magento platform, keep on reading.
We have talked about purple teaming at great lengths in a previous post "Purple Teaming, here's what you need to know". Essentially purple teaming is the execution of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) of a threat actor on monitored systems with the objective of identifying and bridging gaps in detection capabilities. We had a few comments on that blog post that such an activity seems daunting and requires an initial investment in both people and hardware resources.
We have recently been reacquainted with an old “thorn” in the form of an increase in the number of cases involving Qakbot (also known as Qbot). This malware campaign has been around since early 2007 but can still be extremely dangerous, even given its age. With this in mind, we’re sharing some information so that you can protect yourself from this attack.
Everyone in the industry is talking about the migration of Magento 1 websites to Magento 2 - we also recently wrote about it - Magento 1 Reaching End Of Life in June 2020 - What does it mean for you?. For our agency/developer readers, this will undoubtedly be a tricky conversation you’ve been having with your clients. And for those of you who have a Magento 1 website, the cost of migrating is probably one of the most significant hurdles holding you back.
If your eCommerce site is not built on Magento, you can stop right here… but for the thousands of people/companies that chose to create their site on the powerful Magento platform, keep on reading.
We have talked about purple teaming at great lengths in a previous post "Purple Teaming, here's what you need to know". Essentially purple teaming is the execution of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTP) of a threat actor on monitored systems with the objective of identifying and bridging gaps in detection capabilities. We had a few comments on that blog post that such an activity seems daunting and requires an initial investment in both people and hardware resources.
