Month: August 2019

MalwareBytesSecurity

QxSearch hijacker fakes failed installs

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 21:06:16 +0000

QxSearch is a group of search hijackers that try to make the user think the install failed or was incomplete. Is it that they don’t want to be found and removed? Or just bad programming?

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Innovate or Die?

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:13:14 +0000

The recent series of IT acquisitions and IPOs highlight a simple economic fact: companies that fail to keep up with the fast-paced innovation of technology can easily become targets for acquisition. Mark Twain put it this way: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. As a former Gartner analyst, I find it irresistible to comment…

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This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:05:21 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from 1.5 million in the…

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