A week in security (January 8 – January 14)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:24:48 +0000

It’s very early in the year, yet everyone has already had a complete meltdown (pun intended) over a number of serious vulnerabilities found in legacy and modern microprocessors. Last week, rightly so, vendors released patches for hardware and OSes to help mitigate these threats. However, problems in patching persisted.

As if this wasn’t challenging enough, some online criminals jumped on the bandwagon to take advantage of the hullabaloo to push out the Smoke Loader malware to inconspicuous user systems.

On our blog, we also touched on WPA3, misleading marketing tactics, more 419 scams, and the indictment of alleged Fruitfly creator—a win for the security community.

Lastly, in the realm of cryptocurrency, we saw an increase in malware payloads from the RIG exploit kit.

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Stay safe, everyone!

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