Finjan
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About Finjan
Finjan is a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market. Finjan’s installed based comprises millions of enterprise users worldwide, including Fortune 1000 companies in the finance, banking, insurance, healthcare, airline, and high-tech sectors, as well as large government agencies. Through an award-winning web security appliances, Finjan protects customers’ vital data assets from the growing cybercrime threat.
Finjan offers secure web gateway products for the enterprise market. Utilizing patented real-time content inspection technology, Finjan's award-winning appliances prevent crimeware and other malicious web content from infiltrating corporate networks and stealing business data. This technology allows Finjan to provide its customers with real-time protection against zero-day and targeted web attacks (e.g., crimeware, spyware, phishing, Trojans, obfuscated malicious code, etc.), as well as other types of malware.
In today's information age, commercially-motivated cybercriminals target crimeware attacks against corporate networks to steal sensitive business data that can then be sold online to criminals. Crimeware originates from compromised legitimate websites and Web 2.0 sites, and utilizes advanced techniques to avoid detection. Finjan's secure web gateway products utilize real-time content inspection to understand the intended criminal behavior of web content, hence detecting crimeware despite its use of dynamic propagation techniques and anti-forensic methods. By analyzing each and every piece of web content in real-time, regardless of its originating URL and without signature matching, Finjan's award-winning security solution detects and blocks crimeware, targeted attacks and other malicious web content based on what the content actually intends to do on the user machine.
Finjan Products
Vital Security Web Appliance NG-5100 is Finjan’s real-time web security solution for small and medium-sized businesses. This all-in-one appliance offers the most comprehensive and advanced web security solution on the market, protecting your users from Spyware, Trojans and other types of web-borne threats. Featuring Finjan’s patented real-time content inspection technology, NG-5100 provides zero-hour protection from new vulnerabilities and emerging threats that often bypass signature-based anti-virus, URL filtering and heuristics-based solutions.
Vital Security Web Appliance NG-6100 is Finjan's real-time enterprise web security solution for organizations with high availability requirements. This appliance achieves the highest level of protection against malicious code, securing corporate networks and users from Spyware, Trojans and other types of web-borne threats.
Vital Security Web Appliance NG-8100 is Finjan's realtime web security solution for large enterprises and organizations. This appliance achieves the highest level of protection against malicious code, securing corporate networks and users from today's sophisticated and dangerous web-borne threats.
The high-capacity NG-6600 is installed as an upstream transparent proxy, between the Vital Security Web Appliance and the Internet. Finjan's caching solution optimizes bandwidth utilization and enhances productivity, while our real-time security engines prevent malicious and inappropriate web content from entering the corporate network.
Finjan RUSafe sniffer tool for Vital Security enables enterprises to scan web traffic using Finjan's unmatched security engines, without requiring any changes to their security infrastructure and network topology. This innovative tool gives enterprises a clear snapshot of the true nature of their web traffic over a pre-defined period, without disrupting in-line live traffic.
Many enterprises are looking for an efficient and customisable web security cloud solution that will not only protect their workers, but also enable savings on their capital and operational costs. Finjan's Vital Cloud web security solution addresses this need with a cloud-based unified Web security solution.
Finjan's industry-first Vital Cloud Hybrid web security solution provides enterprises with a smooth transition from on-premise web security to Web security in-the-cloud. This unique combination enables medium-sized and large enterprises to enjoy the best of both worlds.
Finjan Product Families
Finjan is a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market. Finjan’s installed based comprises millions of enterprise users worldwide, including Fortune 1000 companies in the finance, banking, insurance, healthcare, airline, and high-tech sectors, as well as large government agencies. Through an award-winning web security appliances, Finjan protects customers’ vital data assets from the growing cybercrime threat.
Finjan Industry News
Looking back at malware in 2009 2009 was the year in which nobody that uses the Internet could afford not to educate him/herself about the dangers that lurk in the inbox, in Google's search results, on the social networks they use, and sometimes even on their favorite news site. This year has definitely been marked by the increase of malware being delivered directly to your door (so to speak). So, let's see what were the major threats.
Conficker
Also know as Kido, Downadup or Downup, this worm......
[more] Finjan cloud security solutions extend on-premise unified web security into the cloud More and more enterprises are becoming “borderless”, with an increasing number of remote workers and branch offices. As a result, companies turn to cloud-based web security to cost-effectively protect their users and data everywhere. Companies realize that they need to maintain full control of their web security and policy both on-premise and in the cloud. They also demand that corporate data remain within the......
[more] Facebook users targeted by malware video player trick IT security specialist Finjan has warned users to be wary of an application targeting people on Facebook. The company warned that a fake Facebook site is using malicious Javascript based on an old "Flash Player upgrade installation" trick to entice the user to download an upgrade in order to watch a video. Finjan said the upgrade is actually malware containing the CAPTCHA pop-up.
The malware copies a couple files to C:\Windows, deletes itse......
[more] Finjan launches 'borderless' security tools Web security firm Finjan has announced two solutions designed to offer access to a range of new "borderless" security tools for companies and their managed services providers. Finjan Vital Cloud and Finjan Vital Hybrid Cloud will help organisations to tighten security both in-house and in the cloud, according to Finjan, and are expected to appeal to companies with a number of mobile workers and remote offices.
"Finjan Vital Cloud and Finjan Vital Hybr......
[more] Cybercrooks net €300,000 in 22 days A recent phishing and malware scam netted a group of criminals some €300,000 in stolen funds, say experts. Security vendor Finjan said that the criminals used a piece of financial malware to infect users and steal account details without being caught by bank security systems.
According to Finjan, the attackers used a combination of phishing sites and exploit attacks to dupe users into downloading a piece of malware known as the Zeus bank trojan.
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[more] FAQ: The ins and outs of DoS attacks Thursday's denial-of-service attack that knocked Twitter offline for a few hours and affected Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google Sites and Blogger wasn't your average attack. Typically, someone who has a bone to pick with a specific Web site will round up some hijacked PCs and use them to try to shut the site down. In this case, whoever was responsible was trying to block access to a specific user's accounts and not the sites themselves. Denial-of-service at......
[more] Nine things about botnets that will scare your pants off I wondered just how deep and wide the botnet problem goes. What I learned with just a little bit of research is enough to make you want to return to the days of stand-alone computing. The reality is worse than most people suspect. Let me share nine known things about botnets that will scare your pants off. At the very least, perhaps this article will prompt you to step up your effort to keep your corporate PCs off the illicit botnets. 1.......
[more] Fake antivirus claiming tens of millions of scalps Malware posing as antivirus software is spreading fast with tens of millions of computers infected each month, according to a report released on Wednesday from PandaLabs. PandaLabs found 1,000 samples of fake antivirus software in the first quarter of 2008. In a year that number had grown to 111,000 and for the second quarter of 2009 it reached 374,000, Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs said in a recent interview."We've created......
[more] Twitter users offered security plug-in As Twitter becomes increasingly abused by hackers, Finjan Software has released a free browser add-on with a new feature that scans links and warns if they point to a page containing malware. The SecureTwitter component is wrapped into SecureBrowsing, a plug-in for either the Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers, said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Finjan's CTO. SecureTwitter is designed to warn people about links that people post on the micro-blogging service. Becaus......
[more] Security experts uncover one-stop botnet marketplace Researchers have uncovered a fully-functional marketplace for the building and selling of botnets. Security firm Finjan said that the site allows criminals to obtain everything from malware and data, to networks of infected PCs. Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan, described the new site an "eBay for stolen data". "It is basically a hacker-to-hacker platform to provide everything you want, " he said. "......
[more] Botnet discovered by Finjan contained 73 government domains A recently discovered botnet that contained 1.9 million infected computers contained 73 government domains. Finjan's UK regional director Tim Warner claimed that when it was discovered in February it was one of the largest botnets to be found and identified. Further analysis revealed that 45 per cent of the domains were in the computing and internet sector. Warner said: “Conficker claimed to have many more infections but they wer......
[more] Botnet 'ensnares government PCs' Almost two million PCs globally, including machines inside UK and US government departments, have been taken over by malicious hackers. Security experts Finjan traced the giant network of remotely-controlled PCs, called a botnet, back to a gang of cyber criminals in Ukraine. Several PCs inside six UK government bodies were compromised by the botnet. Finjan has contacted the Metropolitan Police with details of the government PCs and it is now investigating.......
[more] GhostNet shows that the protection of branch offices is as important as the main network International companies should look to secure their regional offices and their websites and networks as robustly as their main sites. Referring to the recent GhostNet incident, Finjan CTO Yuval Ben-Itzhak claimed that a greater emphasis should be put on the networks of branch offices to ensure complete protection of the company. Ben-Itzhak said: “With news reports like this, there is a tendency to ove......
[more] Ukrainian cybercriminals raked in $10K/day, Finjan reports Ten thousand eight hundred dollars per day for cybercrime jockeys? That's what security vendor Finjan says it witnessed during its 16-day infiltration of a cybercrime operation, based in the Ukraine, that involved selling bogus anti-virus software. "If someone gets over $10,000 per day in cybercrime, it explains why they want to do a lot of it," says Yuval Ben-Itzak, Finjan's CTO. The crime operation broke into Web sites and e......
[more] Japanese cybercrime stats bode ill for e-crime in Western nations Finjan, a supplier of secure web gateway products, says that 2008 cybercrime figures from Japan - details of which have just been published and show a 15.5 per cent year-on-year annual growth - do not bode well for e-crime in Western nations. "Anecdotal evidence suggests that the volume and value of cybercrime has soared again in 2008 and, with the current economic recession, we fully expect the number of Internet scams, hac......
[more] Report reveals real cost of fraud to companies Finjan Inc says that a newly issued report from CyberSource - which clams to show that one in eight online UK firms are losing more than five per cent of their revenues to fraud - illustrates the phenomenal cost that card fraud is costing UK organisations. “We at Finjan believe that a pound spent on effective IT security in a business is rewarded with cost savings in many other areas several times over”, said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, Finjan&rs......
[more] 'Boom year' for hi-tech criminals If 2007 was witness to the rise of the professional hi-tech criminal, then 2008 was the year they got down to work. "The underground economy is flourishing," said Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer at security company Websense. "They are not just more organised," said Mr Hubbard, "they are co-operating more and showing more business savvy in how they monetise what they do." Statistics gathered by firms combating the rising tide of compute......
[more] CBS page compromised by hackers Finjan has warned internet users to be on their guard following an apparent compromised webpage on one of the sub-domains on the CBS.com portal. The North American network revealed that etix.cbs.com was compromised as a result of malicious activity. Cybercriminals added a malicious obfuscated script to the infected page which added a malicious IFrame to the page. The injected IFrame automatically loads another malicious script from a remote server controlled......
[more] Cyberthieves mine online for corporate data nuggets An innocuous posting appeared on a Houston-based technology company's internal website on a recent Friday afternoon. A couple of workers saw it, and obeyed instructions to click on a Web link. The posting seemed trustworthy. It was on an employees-only message board. And the link referenced news about a favorite company charity. By clicking on the link, the workers infected their PCs with a virus that shut down the company's antivirus defenses......
[more] Finjan reveals how corporate data is stolen and stored by Cybercriminals Finjan today announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) has documented step-by-step how corporate data is being stolen and stored on remote servers owned by criminals. In its October 2008 Malicious Page of the Month report, Finjan describes how a corporate user, while browsing the web for his regular business needs, got infected with a Trojan. The individual who worked for a large media company was just brow......
[more] Web security firm warns of obfuscated code A recent compromise at a corporation led to a significant amount of data being stolen, underscoring that traditional software defenses are hard pressed to catch obfuscated attacks, security firm Finjan said in its monthly analysis of Internet threats. In the report, dubbed the Malicious Page of the Month, the company claims that a desktop PC at an unnamed firm had been infected with a data-stealing Trojan horse. The attack succeeded because the firms......
[more] Finjan gains new European patent for malware protection Finjan today announced that the European Patent Office has granted the company Patent No. EP 0 965 094 B1 entitled “System and Method for Protecting a Computer and a Network from Hostile Downloadables”. This patent further adds to Finjan’s extensive and comprehensive intellectual property portfolio in the security market. Features of the patent include techniques to examine executable application programs in real-time and to proactiv......
[more] Cybercrime toll mounts for businesses Cybercrime is more than a buzzword, it’s a critical business concern, say 1,387 IT professionals surveyed by security firm Finjan. Ninety-one percent of respondents call cybercrime a “major business risk,” and 73% say they are more concerned about data theft than about downtime and loss of productivity from malware. In addition, 25% of respondents admit to data breaches in their organizations, according to the survey that Finjan conducted in July and release......
[more] Security Sleuths Sound Alarm on Asprox Flare-Up Web security firm Finjan issued a warning Thursday about a new wave of mass Web attacks that it said has affected more than 1,000 Web site domains, including government, retail, healthcare and advertising sites. Security vendors have been aware of the attack toolkit, dubbed "Asprox," for several years. However, they have noticed an uptick in the popularity of the malware since 2007.In May, cyber-criminals began a new round of mass Web at......
[more] Stolen bank data gets cheaper on Web Prices charged by cybercriminals selling hacked bank and credit card details have fallen sharply as the volume of data on offer has soared, forcing them to look elsewhere to boost profit margins, a new report says. Researchers for Finjan, a Web security firm, said the high volumes traded had led to bank and credit card information becoming "commoditised" - account details with PIN codes that once fetched $100 or more each might now go for $10 or $2......
[more] Cybercriminals turning to health-care data Security researchers with Finjan Software are seeing a growing thirst from cybercriminals for data other than credit-card numbers, with the latest findings including servers containing passwords leading to heath-care records and airline systems data. The problem is two-fold: sensitive data is being stolen after PCs are infected with malicious software, and then that data sent to unprotected remote servers, said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology office......
[more] City of Utrecht blocks unknown malware and stealthy crimeware attacks The City of Utrecht (Gemeente Utrecht) deployed Finjan’s award winning Secure Web Gateway to secure its infrastructure and data and to ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of its communications. Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands with a population of close to 300,000 citizens. The City’s 4,000 users are divided into different user groups, depending on their particular responsibilitie......
[more] Cybercrims dump swag on open botnet server Everyone knows Trojans steal personal data, but the discovery of a server containing more than 1.4 gigabytes of stolen business and personal info brings home the real extent of the problem. Data on the so-called crimeware server compromised 5,388 unique log files containing both email communications and web-related data. Net security firm Finjan reports that information on the server included business and customer data from 40 top-tier global businesse......
[more] Thieves set up data supermarkets Web criminals are stepping back from infecting computers themselves and creating "one-stop shops" which offer gigabytes of data for a fixed price. Speaking at InfoSecurity Europe, security firm Finjan said it had seen thousands of such online services. Experts at the conference said web fraud was skyrocketing and called for police to urgently address the problem. Security guru Bruce Schneier said anti-cyber crime efforts needed to be closely allied to the scale......
[more] ‘Crimeware as a service’ the next big thing 'Crimeware as a service', where criminals use online cybercrime services instead of running their own servers and software, is the latest development in internet crime, according to a report. The term was coined by security supplier Finjan, in the latest report from its Malicious Code Research Centre. Finjan identified that criminals have started to use online cybercrime services instead of having to deal with the technical challenges of running their......
[more] Stolen credit card supermarket exposed Security firm Finjan has uncovered a website supermarket for stolen card data. The 'SellCVV2' website was found to be trading the card numbers and other data in a number of sophisticated ways. Criminals visiting the site would be able to earn discounts based on volume bought and choose from a range of tiers, starting at the least valuable Classic Visa or MasterCard - those with the lowest credit limits - through more valuable Gold, Platinum, and Corporate l......
[more] Password-stealing hackers infect thousands of Web pages Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 Web pages in recent days. The Web attack, which appears to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China, was first noticed by McAfee researchers on Wednesday morning. Within hours, the security company had tracked more than 10,000 Web pages infected on hundreds of Web sites. McAfee isn't sure how so many sites have been hacked, but "g......
[more] Logins for 8,700 FTP servers found on sale Criminals have assembled a huge database of hacked FTP server logins belonging to some of the world’s leading companies, a security company has revealed. Security vendor Finjan said it had stumbled upon a database containing account usernames, passwords and server addresses for a staggering 8,700 FTP servers, many of which were being used by US Fortune 100-level enterprises. The hacked servers could be used to distribute crimeware by injecting iframe t......
[more] Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive The mystery over a cluster of poisoned websites distributing a toxic malware cocktail may be better understood but it's still not solved. Five days ago, we wrote about the infection of several hundred websites that was unlike anything seasoned researchers had seen before. Mary Landesman, a cyber gumshoe who first brought it to public attention, asked for help from other security pros in figuring out how the unusual new technique worked. And......
[more] Unpatched PCs open to latest web hack A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of web servers, including one owned by a major online advertising company, Finjan Software has said. It appears that a single gang is behind the attacks, since the malicious software it spreads is storing login and password details on one server in Spain, said Yuval Ben-Itzhak. Finjan is trying to get the ISP to shut it down, he said. A web server of an online adverti......
[more] 'Zombie' exploits cached by search engines Over a year after first coming to light, the cache engines of major search engines are still providing a safe hiding place for malicious code, a security company has revealed. The latest warning comes from security company Aladdin, which logged an attack against a university website which was eventually traced back to just such a ‘poisoned cache'. The originating site had been taken offline, but the code from it was still able to spread by living......
[more] Chinese Trojans steal data from organizations Finjan Inc. has recently conducted a study prompted by the increased volume of attacks coming from China. The study maps how users PCs are being infected by Trojans distributed from China that then steal data from organizations and details some of the sites that are involved in the process. Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) have detected malicious activity by groups that distribute their content using obfuscated code and a network of we......
[more] Widgets expose company networks to attack Website add-ons, popularly known as widgets, are exposing corporate networks to an array of threats, according to a Finjan report. The quarterly study suggests that widgets contain code that is vulnerable to exploits by hackers.According to Finjan malicious applications allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on an infected machine or access privileged information from a user account.The company is now calling for a review of current security measures to......
[more] Vista stricken by embarrassing gadget hole Security vendor Finjan has claimed the credit for spotting an embarrassing flaw in Windows Vista, which Microsoft only patched this week in its monthly updates. The exploit involves one of the most apparently innocent elements of Vista, namely the sidebar ‘gadgets', whereby users load one from a selection of small utilities on to the desktop. It turns out that three of these- the contact, weather and RSS feed gadgets - can be exploited to launch......
[more] Don't blame China - malware is a US problem US servers host most of the world's malicious code - despite the claims of China, Russia or eastern European countries. That's according to security vendor Finjan after analysis of more than 10 million URLs. The data was collected from live end-user traffic in the UK using Finjan's content inspection engines, said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan. Unlike some other studies, which look at domain names to make assumptions on where a server is based, Finj......
[more] Warning over Valentine's e-cards Valentine's Day could be a bonanza for malicious hackers, internet security experts are warning. Fake Valentine's e-cards and dodgy dating websites are among the tactics being used by fraudsters to relieve internet users of their money.
The government's Get Safe Online campaign is urging users to take care.
As well as e-cards harbouring viruses and spyware, the missives are being used for phishing, using fake links to get bank and credit card details.
Rogu......
[more] Blue Coat to cleanse encrypted traffic Encrypting Web traffic can protect privacy and secure transactions, but it can also provide a cover for viruses, spyware and other pests trying to get into a corporate network, according to Blue Coat Systems. Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, has many legitimate uses, but also provides an "encrypted tunnel" that lets malicious code and phishing sites bypass most network security methods, Blue Coat said. The company announced Tuesday that it is updating its pro......
[more] Google patches critical hole Google has patched a security hole on its main search-engine website.
It was notified of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in September, according to the security company that told it, Finjan. Google fixed the problem "within a few days", said a Finjan spokeswoman.
The vulnerability could have allowed a remote attack to take over Google accounts or fake Google content and deceive computer users into going to a bogus site and giving up personal information, Limo......
[more] Is there method in Microsoft's security buys? While Microsoft's latest deals show it's committed to building its security muscle, some analysts say the company needs to focus on a clearer and more productive strategy. The software maker said it was making security its top priority when it launched its Trustworthy Computing Initiative three years ago. Since then, it has overhauled its in-house development to bolster security and has put its $38 billion war chest to work. It has been buying antiv......
[more] Microsoft scoffs at '10 new XP SP2 flaws' Can hackers 'silently and remotely take over any SP2 machine'? Security firm Finjan has found 10 flaws in Windows XP SP2 - while Microsoft is saying the warnings are over the top.
According to the security company, the flaws mean that "attackers can silently and remotely take over an SP2 machine when the user simply browses a web page".
Finjan has informed Microsoft of the flaws and is working with the Redmond, Washington-based giant to sew them up.......
[more] MyDoom's spread sparks antivirus critique Antivirus technologies need to change because they fail to limit viruses during the crucial first hours of an epidemic, experts say. MyDoom could spell the end of some security technologies.
The virus, which has combined many old attack techniques into a successful package, was hardly blunted by antivirus programs during the first few hours of its exponential spread.
That's a problem, said Shlomo Touboul, chief executive of security software make......
[more] MyDoom sparks talks of security's future MyDoom could spell the end of some security technologies The virus, which has combined many old attack techniques into a successful package, was hardly blunted by antivirus programs during the first few hours of its exponential spread.
That's a problem, said Shlomo Touboul, CEO of security software maker Finjan Software.
"The MyDoom attack should never have propagated so far into the Internet," he said. "It is obvious that we need another layer (of......
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