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There’s no doubt that organizations are under greater threat today from cyberspace than they’ve ever been – Trend Micro alone blocked over 38 billion threats in the first half of 2017.

From a security standpoint, smart lock technologies pose more of a physical challenge than a technology challenge, suggested William Malik, vice president for infrastructure strategies at Trend Micro.

“Based on our initial analysis, Bad Rabbit spreads to other computers in the network by dropping copies of itself in the network using its original name and executing the dropped copies using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and Service Control Manager Remote Protocol. When the Service Control Manager Remote Protocol is used, it uses dictionary attacks for the credentials,” Trend Micro researchers shared.

A September 2017 survey conducted by cyber-security solutions provider Trend Micro, in conjunction with Opinium, found that most executives are not adequately prepared for GDPR, and the fallout could be significant.

“While many ransomware families like Cerber, SLocker and Locky are increasingly pinpointing their targets, they’re still distributed globally,” said Trend Micro researchers.

Trend Micro previously attributed other incidents that attacked this vulnerability, which was patched on October 16, to the BlackOasis APT group.

Research by Trend Micro found that 73% of 1000 IT decision makers were unaware of the extent of fines that could be levied for GDPR non-compliance

“Serverless is that last step on the current line of going ‘I don’t have to run any of this stuff — I can just write code that’s directly tied to my business,'” said Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro.

"How it works is technically complex," said William Malik, vice president for infrastructure strategies at Trend Micro. "The easy answer is the attacker gets the access point to rebroadcast part of the initial handshake, analyzes that information, and then the attacker can intercept the rest of the conversation," he told TechNewsWorld.

Connecting everyday devices to the Internet seems like a great idea, but users need to be mindful of the risks, warned JD Sherry, vice president of technology and solutions at Tokyo-based antivirus-software maker Trend Micro.