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Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:05:12 +0000
Sex sells, as they say in advertising. In cyberspace porn serves as one of the most popular tools for malicious activity.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:00:43 +0000
This is a quick advisory to warn our readers about a new WhatsApp scam that is afoot. In this scam, a fake message is getting circulated which informs a user that their WhatsApp subscription has expired and that they can buy a lifetime service just for 99p by clicking on…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 23:43:52 +0000
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| Ransomware may have slowed its growth but is still a go-to payload for threat actors looking to monetize drive-by download attacks. The latest attempt: GandCrab ransomware. Categories: Tags: exploit kitsgandcrabgandcrab ransomwaregrandsoftransomwareRIG |
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Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:26:00 +0000
Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a information disclosure found in Hotspot Shield. Hotspot Shield “provides secure and private access to a free and open internet. Enabling access to social networks, sports, audio and video streaming, news, dating, gaming wherever you are.” Credit An independent security researcher, Paulos Yibelo, has reported this vulnerability to Beyond … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Hotspot Shield Information Disclosure
Read MoreCredit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:00:05 +0000
There has been an increase in free versions of programs that purport to scan computers for various errors, and then use alarming, coercive messages to scare customers into buying a premium version of the same program. The paid version of these programs, usually called cleaner or optimizer applications, purportedly fixes the problems discovered by the
Read MoreCredit to Author: Eric Skinner| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:12:12 +0000
The endpoint security marketing is quite dynamic right now, with lots of new entrants, and ongoing innovation for improving threat detection and response. In the midst of all this market energy we are very pleased to be named a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP)1. Three vendors were named to…
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:00:18 +0000
There’s no arguing the criticality and importance of enterprise apps, but these platforms could be putting your business at serious risk of infection and attack.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:26:06 +0000
On Jan. 27, 2018, KrebsOnSecurity published what this author thought a scoop about the first known incidence of U.S. ATMs being hit with “jackpotting” attacks, a crime in which thieves deploy malware that forces cash machines to spit out money like a loose Las Vegas slot machine. As it happens, the first known jackpotting attacks in the United States were reported in November 2017 by local media on the west coast, although the reporters in those cases seem to have completely buried the lede.
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