Fortinet gains traction in SD- WAN market with integrated offering
QUALYS ANNOUNCES NEW BROWSER EXTENSION TO HALT CRYPTOJACKING
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Fortinet gains traction in SD- WAN market with integrated offering
John Maddison, SVP of Products and Solutions Fortinet
ortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated
F cybersecurity solutions, has announced it has gained significant traction in the SD-WAN marketplace by delivering a comprehensive SD-WAN solution that provides both SD-WAN and security functionality in a single integrated offering for distributed enterprise branches.
QUALYS ANNOUNCES NEW BROWSER EXTENSION TO HALT CRYPTOJACKING
The growing appeal of SD-WAN technologies has caught the attention of the IT world and many are realising the benefits of efficient cloud adoption, broad application visibility and lowered operating costs. But without the right solution, the speed and agility of SD-WAN can come at the expense of security. To respond to this pervasive industry challenge, Fortinet produced the industry’ s first NGFW-centric approach to SD-WAN by tightly integrating SD-WAN functionality into the FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall. This approach produces a compelling solution that combines the increased scalability, flexibility, simplicity and cost savings of SD-WAN with industryleading security protection.“ To make sure customers realise the benefits of SD-WAN without compromising security, Fortinet has evolved our advanced SD-WAN features in the latest FortiOS releases,” said John Maddison, SVP of Products and Solutions at Fortinet. ollowing extensive research from Qualys Malware
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Research Labs, Qualys has announced the Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker, a new Google Chrome browser extension to protect users from browser-based coin mining attacks.
Cryptomining is a rising online threat that is expected to grow as digital currencies and Blockchain technologies continue to gain wider acceptance. Attackers are employing various techniques to use unsuspecting users’ systems for malicious purposes.
Cryptojacking has gone mainstream recently because it is safer for cybercriminals and webmasters than ransomware, which requires interaction with the victim to collect payment.
And because cryptojacking is browser based, it is easier to infect victims than hacking into servers. As cryptomining becomes more resource-intensive over time in terms of compute power and electricity consumption required, stealing those resources is becoming more enticing to attackers.
Cryptojacking attacks leverage the victim system’ s resources via malicious JavaScript to mine certain cryptocurrencies. The resourceintensive mining process typically consumes more than 70 % of CPU, that reduces system performance, increases power consumption and can cause possible permanent damage to the system.
Qualys BrowserCheck CoinBlocker Extension relies not only on the domain blacklist but also uses heuristics to identify underlying cryptomining algorithms like CryptoNight( used for mining Monero) and its various artefacts.
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