Recently Trusted Internet deployed and installed a Small Business Unified Threat Manager (UTM) service, to a 100 person oil and gas engineering company in Canada. Within 12 hours...

Trusted Internet’s Security Operations Center (SOC) identified, and stopped Gh0stRAT, from being installed by a Botnet operating out of a public cloud datacenter in San Diego, CA. Gh0stRAT is a “Remote Administration Tool” also known as a “Trojan Horse”, that cyber criminals use to gain access and control of businesses, governments, power and utility companies. Gh0StRAT is an advanced persistent threat that can appear dormant for months then strike without notice. Gh0stRAT was written by Chinese coders for Chinese cyber espionage. Its use is more widespread today than when it was originally intended. It is now well known to be used for cyber espionage, gaining ransom, and other government or state sponsored cybercrimes. It is now on version 3.6 and is quite healthy -here recently targeting two engineering companies in the Oil and Gas supply chain countries apart.

Due to the expert, 24x7x365 cyber security monitoring from Trusted Internet’s SOC, businesses are being protected from dangerous cybercrime. Nearly at the same time down south near the Gulf of Mexico, Trusted Internet SOC analysts had blacklisted an address pushing the same code using Conficker only a week earlier preventing the attack from occurring. In the Canadian company, Trusted Internet SOC security analysts identified the Botnet installation pattern and quickly acted to kill the connection and block the address to the Botnet operator in San Diego, CA.