Companies must be wary of chasing shiny new threats with shiny new defenses, while leaving legacy systems vulnerable to legacy malware.
Trend Micro calls the legacy threat ‘Throwhack’; after the more benign ‘Throwback Thursday’ social media trend; but, says principal security strategist Bharat Mistry in a blog published today, “there’s nothing entertaining about this list of legacy security challenges.”
Mistry points to Conficker (dating back to 2008). “Throughout 2017 we saw monthly detections of around 20,000; meaning it’s still highly active.” In conversation with SecurityWeek, he agreed that the majority of detections were in the Far East with few appearing in the U.S. or Europe; but warned that Far East breaches could get into the supply chain of Western organizations.
