Month: December 2017

FortinetSecurity

Circle of the fraud: more information about Bitcoin Orcus RAT campaign

Credit to Author: Artem Semenchenko and Evgeny Ananin| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:30:00 +0000

FortiGuard Labs continues to investigate a series of attacks on Bitcoin users. In our first blog, we [AS1] provided a deep analysis of malicious samples from the Bitcoin Orcus RAT campaign. In this second part, we recreate the full path of a multistage complex attack, shed some light on some other activities of these criminal actors, and reveal their possible identities. Failed attempt Bitcointalk.org is a popular place to trade for bitcoins. In 2015 there was a simple and straightforward attack on its users. Somebody registered a…

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Facebook phishers want you to “Connect with Facebook”

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Facebook phishers link from bogus landing pages hosted on sites(dot)google(dot)com URLs. What do they want? Your data.

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SecurityTrendMicro

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 18, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 15:51:16 +0000

In the 2000 movie High Fidelity, the concept of making lists is a dominant focus. What are your top five favorite records? Top five side one, track ones? Top five dream jobs? In the movie, Rob Gordon, portrayed by John Cusack, decides to categorize his top five most memorable breakups in order to determine why…

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