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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:11:16 +0000

We take a look at a prolific campaign that is focused on the distribution of coin miners via drive-by download attacks. We started to notice larger-than-usual payloads from the RIG exploit kit around November 2017, a trend that has continued more recently via a campaign dubbed Ngay.

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Tags: bitcoin Bytecoin cryptocurrency cryptominers cryptomining drive-by downloads Drive-by mining Electroneum exploit kits malvertising monero Ngay RIG EK

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January 9, 2018 admin

A week in security (January 1-8)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:48:57 +0000

A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from January 1 to January 8, including Meltdown and Spectre updates, miners, wire fraud refunds, and fake apps on Google Play.

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Tags: cryptomining malware olympics phishing wire fraud

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January 4, 2018 admin

Meltdown and Spectre: what you need to know

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:53:24 +0000

2018 gets off to a rough start as manufacturers and software vendors tackle a series of severe bugs called Meltdown and Spectre that affect all modern computers.

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Security world

Tags: AMD ARM Intel Meltdown memory processor Spectre

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January 3, 2018 admin

Search engine shenanigans: Malwarebytes mentions aren’t what they seem

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:22:31 +0000

Hunting for information on Malwarebytes, including blog posts or researcher names on Google’s search engine? Be wary of websites stuffed with keywords designed to send you into an ad blizzard.

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Tags: ad ads adverts redirect search engine

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December 27, 2017 admin

IPv6, it’s waiting for you

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +0000

How does IPv6 compare to IPv4, and what do we need to do make a safe transition?

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Tags: internet ipv4 ipv6 protocol transition

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December 22, 2017 admin

Facebook phishers want you to “Connect with Facebook”

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Facebook phishers link from bogus landing pages hosted on sites(dot)google(dot)com URLs. What do they want? Your data.

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Tags: facebook Facebook phishers fake Google phish phishing

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December 21, 2017 admin

The seven most colossal data breaches of 2017

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:00:00 +0000

This year saw a handful of spectacularly bad security fails that resulted in massive sets of compromised data. Here are the most colossal data breaches of 2017.

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Tags: data breaches data breaches of 2017 Edmodo Equifax Uber Verizon

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December 20, 2017 admin