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2019 State of Malware report: Trojans and cryptominers dominate threat landscape

Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:01:36 +0000

The 2019 State of Malware report is here. Learn what Malwarebytes Labs researchers discovered about the top global threats for businesses and consumers in 2018, and predictions for 2019.

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Browser push notifications: a feature asking to be abused

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:03:05 +0000

Whoever invented browser push notifications must have been able to guess they would be abused for advertising. This post explains what they are and how to disable them.

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BEC Will Reach Two Levels Deeper

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:00:18 +0000

  In our predictions report for 2019, “Mapping the Future: Dealing with Pervasive and Persistent Threats,” we foresaw an increase in the rate of BEC (business email compromise) attacks: “Business email compromise will go two levels down in the org chart.” From the report:     “Business email compromise (BEC) remains a very potent and…

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Descubierta una colección de 1.160 millones de correos hackeados

Credit to Author: Naked Security| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 12:34:41 +0000

La web Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) ha descubierto una nueva y enorme cantidad de direcciones de correo electrónico y contraseñas que circula entre los cibercriminales. La han llamado “Collection #1” y sus estadísticas son tan impresionantes como preocupantes: 87 GB de datos, 12.000 ficheros y 1.160 millones de combinaciones únicas de correos electrónicos y [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/fYDLvmtgRis” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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A week in security (January 14 – 20)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:48:38 +0000

A roundup of last week’s security news from January 14 to 20, including APT10, Fallout EK, Colllection 1 data, Youtube challenges, hosting malicious sites and a Fortnite security flaw.

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