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U.S. trade lobbying group attacked by suspected Chinese hackers

Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 11:02:00 -0700

A group of what appears to be Chinese hackers infiltrated a U.S. trade-focused lobbying group as the two countries wrestle with how they treat imports of each other’s goods and services.

The APT10 Chinese hacking group appears to be behind a “strategic web compromise” in late February and early March at the National Foreign Trade Council, according to security vendor Fidelis Cybersecurity.

The NFTC lobbies for open and fair trade and has pledged to work with U.S. President Donald Trump to “find ways to address Chinese policies that frustrate access to their market and undermine fair trade, while at the same time encouraging a positive trend in our trade relationship.” Trump will meet with China President Xi Jinping in Florida this week.

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Malvertising on iOS pushes eyebrow-raising VPN app

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 17:10:49 +0000

A malvertising campaign on iOS is pushing a scareware page tricking Apple users into installing a free VPN app that comes with serious privacy implications.

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F-Secure buys Little Flocker to combat macOS ransomware

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:07:00 -0700

With attacks against Mac users growing in number and sophistication, endpoint security vendor F-Secure has acquired Little Flocker, a macOS application that provides behavior-based protection against ransomware and other malicious programs.

Little Flocker can be used to enforce strict access controls to a Mac’s files and directories as well as its webcam, microphone and other resources. It’s particularly effective against ransomware, spyware, computer Trojans and other malicious programs that attempt to steal, encrypt or destroy files.

F-Secure plans to integrate Little Flocker, which it calls “the most advanced security technology available for Macs,” into its new Xfence technology. Xfence is designed to  add behavioral-based protection to its existing endpoint security products for macOS.

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Diamond Fox – part 2: let’s dive in the code

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 15:00:30 +0000

In a previous post we made an initial analysis of a Diamond Fox bot delivered by the Nebula Exploit Kit (more about the campaign can be found here). We described the way to unpack the protection layer in order to get the core, written in Visual Basic, that can be decompiled. In this second part of…

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Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:22:55 +0000

The author of a banking Trojan called Nuclear Bot — a teenager living in France — recently released the source code for his creation just months after the malware began showing up for sale in cybercrime forums. Now the young man’s father is trying to convince him not to act on a job offer in the United States, fearing it may be a trap set by law enforcement agents.

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Top 5 email security best practices to prevent malware distribution

Credit to Author: Ryan Francis| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 06:29:00 -0700

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Email is a critical enterprise communication tool synonymous with sending important documents quickly and efficiently between employees, managers, HR, finance, sales, legal, customers, supply chain and more. That said, organizations often don’t understand that the file types used every day to share important information – standard files like Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and PDFs – are also the most common attack vectors widely used for the distribution of malware. For cybercriminals, it’s often too easy to target a user with a spoofed email or phishing attack, and trick them into opening an infected attachment that appears to be legitimate.

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Stolen Memories: Why cyber thieves attack personal over financial data

Credit to Author: Cara West-Wainwright| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:00:22 +0000

Millennials may be tech-savvy, but they're not necessarily up to speed on the latest cyber security protocols.In the never-ending war against cybercrime, half the battle lies in raising public awareness about the nature of the threats out there. If everyday computers users are more clued into the security and privacy dangers facing them online, they’re more likely to take steps to reduce risk. But there’s always more to learn – that’s…

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