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Partnerstroka: Large tech support scam operation features latest browser locker

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Tech support scammers belonging to the Partnerstroka group are once again abusing browsers, this time with a new browlock feature to reel in more victims, in one of the biggest campaigns we’ve ever tracked.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Throwback Thursday: Just one more thing to worry about

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 03:00:00 -0700

This pilot fish and his wife are planning a long-overdue vacation to an all-inclusive resort — one of those places where you don’t have to worry about things like meals or tipping.

“I log onto the resort’s website in order to make some reservations ahead of our arrival,” fish says, “and am presented with the standard registration page.”

He enters his information on the page, which also asks “for security reasons” that he set up a password.

It’s not until after he has clicked “OK” that fish looks at the icon in his web browser and realizes the page isn’t encrypted. He does a quick browse of the source code for the page, and finds that there’s no SSL anywhere securing the data he’s just typed in.

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IndependentKrebs

U.S. Mobile Giants Want to be Your Online Identity

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:58:31 +0000

The four major U.S. wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. Here’s a look at what’s coming, and the potential security and privacy trade-offs of trusting the carriers to handle online authentication on your behalf.

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MicrosoftSecurity

Office VBA + AMSI: Parting the veil on malicious macros

Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:02:43 +0000

As part of our continued efforts to tackle entire classes of threats, Office 365 client applications now integrate with Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), enabling antivirus and other security solutions to scan macros and other scripts at runtime to check for malicious behavior. Macro-based threats have always been a prevalent entry point for malware, but we

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MalwareBytesSecurity

The many faces of omnichannel fraud

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

There’s a new kind of fraud out there, and it’s after organizations that have embraced omnichannel, a strategy that focuses on improved user experience. We take a look at what omnichannel is, the kinds of fraud that can affect businesses using this approach, and how they can protect themselves—and their clients.

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