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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:05:31 +0000

GameStop confirmed with KrebsOnSecurity that they are currently investigating reports of hackers breaching their network and siphoning customer information.

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April 10, 2017 admin

A week in security (Apr 03 – Apr 09)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:59:26 +0000

A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from the 3rd of April to the 9th. We focused on the 3-2-1 rule, further dissected Diamond Fox, and revealed a malvertising campaign targeting iOS users.

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Tags: 3-2-1 rule Apple cyber threat Diamond Fox iOS ransomware recap week in security weekly blog roundup

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April 10, 2017 admin

ShadowBrokers fails to collect 1M bitcoins – releases stolen information

Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:49:20 +0000

ShadowBrokers finally made good on their promise to release the decryption key to unlock the stolen ‘auction’ file purportedly filled with NSA hacking tools.

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Tags: Equation Group exploits hack hacking NSA opsec President Trump ShadowBrokers

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April 10, 2017 admin

USPS-themed malspam now delivering 1-2-3 Knock-out

Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:00:43 +0000

We’ve detected an uptick in USPS-themed malspam walloping users with a 1-2-3 knock-out of nasty malware designed to infiltrate your system and steal all your most valuable information. This malware-laced email is actively being distributed with various Subject and Body messages containing references to missing and/or late USPS parcels.

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Tags: JavaScript malspam malware trojan Trojan.Boaxxe Trojan.Kovter USPS

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April 8, 2017 admin

The top 5 dumbest cyber threats that work anyway

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:00:23 +0000

The common conception of cyber attacks is kind of like bad weather: ranging from irritating to catastrophic, but always unpredictable. Hackers are simply too sophisticated to draw any reliable judgments on and we shouldn’t try. As it turns out, some hackers are fairly predictable in their successful use of really dumb attacks.

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Tags: Business Email Compromise cyber attack cyber threats ddos malware ransomware scam sql

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April 6, 2017 admin

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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Tags: Apple iOS iPhone malvertising malware MyMobileSecure scareware vpn

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April 6, 2017 admin

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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