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Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 13:04:48 +0000
Threat actors are using a new method to take over WhatsApp accounts. It starts with tricking the victim into forwarding their calls.
The post WhatsApp accounts hijacked by call forwarding appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Alexey Andreev| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 11:19:24 +0000
We explain three ways to find out what your children are interested in.
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Credit to Author: Christoper Ordonez| Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We found an AvosLocker ransomware variant using a legitimate antivirus component to disable detection and blocking solutions.
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Credit to Author: Arianne Dela Cruz| Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000
New findings showed that Cheerscrypt, a new Linux-based ransomware variant that compromises ESXi servers, was derived from the leaked Babuk source code. We discuss our analysis in this report.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 19:57:58 +0000
Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti. Ransomware experts say there is good reason to believe the same cybercriminals are behind both attacks, and that Hive has been helping Conti rebrand and evade international sanctions targeting extortion payouts to cybercriminals operating in Russia.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 20:53:40 +0000
RansomHouse, a new extortion group, distances itself from ransomware. However, it seems like it had ties to ransomware groups in the past.
The post Threat profile: RansomHouse makes extortion work without ransomware appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 12:55:00 -0700
If you’re like most PC users, your current computer can’t run Windows 11. Microsoft has placed a line in the hardware sand to ensure that only modern machines with certain specifications that harden security can run Windows 11.
Well, sort of. The company provides a workaround, as I’ll discuss in a moment. Whether you should take advantage of this loophole to upgrade PCs (whether yours or your users’) to Windows 11 is the question.
First, if you want to know if a computer can run Windows 11, you can use the PC Health Check app, Microsoft’s diagnostic tool. But if your PC doesn’t support Windows 11, Microsoft’s app doesn’t do a great job of explaining why. Instead, I recommend using either the Windows 11 Requirements Check Tool from ByteJams.com or WhyNotWin11, available on Github. Both tools provide granular detail about why a machine won’t run Windows 11. On my personal laptop at home, for instance, the processor can’t support hardware for hypervisor enforced code integrity, nor does Windows 11 like the graphics display.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 12:16:00 -0700
For industrial applications, the Internet of Things risks becoming the Internet of Thieves. Perhaps industries making use of connected solutions should take a leaf out the Apple book and lock down their infrastructure.
As digital processes become deeply embedded across every industry, it makes sense that industrial control systems were tested at this year’s Pwn2Own contest. Hackers were asked to seek out vulnerabilities in industrial software and systems.
Contest winners Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade found that once they managed to break into the IT networks used at these companies, it was “relatively easy” to then cause havoc with systems and equipment.