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This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns Persist with WannaCry as Most Common

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:36:02 +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 how a total of 118 new ransomware families emerged in the first half of 2018, but only 47 new ones debuted in the first six…

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MalwareBytesSecurity

New social engineering toolkit draws inspiration from previous web campaigns

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:15:33 +0000

We discovered a web social engineering toolkit that allows crooks to create fake update notification campaigns on both desktop and mobile in up to 30 different languages.

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MicrosoftSecurity

Deep learning rises: New methods for detecting malicious PowerShell

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:00:03 +0000

We adopted a deep learning technique that was initially developed for natural language processing and applied to expand Microsoft Defender ATP’s coverage of detecting malicious PowerShell scripts, which continue to be a critical attack vector.

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IndependentKrebs

Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:52:00 +0000

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct, an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the charges are likely just the opening salvo in a much larger, ongoing federal investigation into the company’s commercial email practices.

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