Facebook Fails, Russian Hacks, and More Security News This Week
Credit to Author: WIRED Staff| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 13:00:00 +0000
The Mueller report, Facebook goofs, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Month: April 2019
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Writing, Selling Banking Malware
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:58:08 +0000
Marcus Hutchins, a 24-year-old blogger and malware researcher arrested in 2017 for allegedly authoring and selling malware designed to steal online banking credentials, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy and to making, selling or advertising illegal wiretapping devices.
Read More“Funky malware format” found in Ocean Lotus sample
Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 23:00:52 +0000
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| Recently, one of our researchers presented at the SAS conference on “Funky malware formats”—atypical executable formats used by malware that are only loaded by proprietary loaders. In this post, we analyze one of those formats in a sample called Ocean Lotus from the APT 32 threat group in Vietnam. Categories: Tags: APT 32atypical malware formatsBLOBCABcustom formatmalware formatocean lotusVietnam |
The post “Funky malware format” found in Ocean Lotus sample appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreFunky malware format found in Ocean Lotus sample
Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:37:54 +0000
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| Recently, one of our researchers presented at the SAS conference on “Funky malware formats”—atypical executable formats used by malware that are only loaded by proprietary loaders. In this post, we analyze one of those formats in a sample called Ocean Lotus from the APT 32 threat group in Vietnam. Categories: Tags: APT 32atypical malware formatsBLOBCABcustom formatmalware formatocean lotusVietnam |
The post Funky malware format found in Ocean Lotus sample appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreMueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach Trump
Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 17:42:33 +0000
Congressional Democrats have punted on the question of impeaching Donald Trump. The Mueller report makes that calculus much harder.
Read MoreRead the Mueller Report; Change Your Instagram Password
Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:49:05 +0000
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Read MoreCVE-2018-18500: Heap write-after-free in Firefox, Analysis and Exploitation
Credit to Author: Yaniv| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:35:40 +0000
Editor’s note: This article is a technical description of a bug discovered by a member of the Offensive Research team at SophosLabs, and how the researcher created a proof-of-concept “Arbitrary Read/Write Primitive” exploit for this bug. The vulnerability was deemed critical by Mozilla’s bug tracking team and was patched in Firefox 65.0. It’s written for […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/oTcYk6i594c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read MoreThe Mueller Report Is Much Worse For Trump Than Barr Let On
Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:06:06 +0000
The Mueller report clearly shows that Donald Trump attempted to obstruct justice, regardless of what the attorney general says.
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