April 2019 – Page 24 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Joyce Huang| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:00:20 +0000

Fifteen years ago, Gmail was launched by Google. The web-based service now has 1.5 billion users a month. In addition to being the extremely popular personal email service, Gmail is also a key component of G Suite for organizations. One of the many reasons of Gmail’s popularity is its security. Google makes use of multiple…

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QuickHeal Security

April 9, 2019 admin

JCry – A Ransomware written in Golang!

Credit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:49:34 +0000

For several months, QH Labs has been observing an upswing in ransomware activity. We found a new ransomware which is written in Go lang. Malware authors are finding it easy to write ransomware in Go lang rather than traditional programming languages. Infection of Jcry ransomware starts with a compromised website. As…

Kaspersky Security

April 9, 2019 admin

How crooks use your doppelgangers to pay with your card

Credit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 07:51:04 +0000

How criminals use data harvested from users’ devices to fool antifraud systems and siphon money from victims’ accounts.

Kaspersky Security

April 8, 2019 admin

RSAC 2019: Why attackers need domain fronting

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 17:29:23 +0000

A story from RSAC 2019 on how domain fronting is used to disguise communications between an infected machine and a command server.

Independent Krebs

April 8, 2019 admin

A Year Later, Cybercrime Groups Still Rampant on Facebook

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:39:41 +0000

Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching turned up more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by deleting those groups. Last week, a similar analysis found some 74 cybercrime groups operating openly on Facebook with more than 385,000 members.

Microsoft Security

April 8, 2019 admin

The language of InfoSec

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:00:48 +0000

If we are to truly influence and shape our industry’s culture, I am asking everyone in the industry to examine how and what we communicate, how we can make cybersecurity easier to understand by the language we use.

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Microsoft Security

April 8, 2019 admin

Steer clear of tax scams

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:00:13 +0000

In the month of February, we saw an average of 300,000 phishing attempts across Microsoft’s browsing platforms daily. Our security experts expect these attempted scams to become increasingly more prevalent through the April 15 tax day.

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Microsoft Security

April 8, 2019 admin

Secure access to your enterprise with Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:00:32 +0000

User access can be simpler for your users and more secure for the enterprise. Read our latest e-book, “Secure access to your enterprise,” to find out how.

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