Month: June 2018

IndependentKrebs

Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:42:39 +0000

Web site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations.

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SecurityTrendMicro

AWS Invites Trend Micro to Give a Sneak Peek Of Our New Stuff

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:52:35 +0000

You can tell a lot by the company someone keeps. This is one of many reasons we are so proud to have been invited to present at an Amazon event today. Amazon is hosting an EKoS Day in San Francisco and will be highlighting their newly launched Amazon EKS offering. We are giving a sneak…

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Don’t Be a Coinmining Zombie – Part 1: Getting Cryptojacked

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:00:39 +0000

When your computer or mobile device (and now, even your IoT device) is hijacked to secretly mine cryptocurrencies, it’s been cryptojacked and becomes a coinmining zombie. Its CPU, memory, disk, and power are enlisted in varying degrees in the service of the mining botnet, which labors on behalf of those who use it, with other…

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