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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Evading detection when distributing payloads is a key part of an effective malware campaign. Hancitor shows that it has yet another trick up its sleeve for that.

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Tags: fileless Hancitor macro malware payloads

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Microsoft Security

March 13, 2018 admin

Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak

Credit to Author: Windows Defender Research| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:27:06 +0000

On March 7, we reported that a massive Dofoil campaign attempted to install malicious cryptocurrency miners on hundreds of thousands of computers. Windows Defender Antivirus, with its behavior monitoring, machine learning technologies, and layered approach to security detected and blocked the attack within milliseconds.Windows 10 S, a special configuration of Windows 10 providing Microsoft-verified security,

Microsoft Security

March 13, 2018 admin

Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:57:36 +0000

The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies. While the future of digital currencies is uncertain, they are shaking up the cybersecurity landscape as they continue to influence the intent and nature of attacks. Cybercriminals gave cryptocurrencies a bad name when ransomware started instructing victims to pay ransom in the form of

MalwareBytes Security

March 12, 2018 admin

A week in security (March 05 – March 11)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:36:16 +0000

A roundup of notable security news from March 5 to 11, including another takedown of GeekHelp tech support scammers, a lame Android app, AI and ML in cybersecurity, Mac malware, and more.

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Tags: Android artificial intelligence encryption international women’s day machine learning recap weekly blog roundup women in tech

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MalwareBytes Security

March 12, 2018 admin

The digital entropy of death: what happens to your online accounts when you die

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

What happens to online accounts when we die? Not a cheerful subject by any stretch of the imagination, but the good news is there are options available—some, a little more sensible than others.

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Tags: after we die death digital real estate inheritance

Security Sophos

March 12, 2018 admin

Intercept X: the data scientist’s view

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:49:00 +0000

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Kaspersky Security

March 9, 2018 admin

#TheSAS2018 Day 2 Recap

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:24:36 +0000

In today’s podcast, I sit down with Santiago Pontiroli from Kaspersky Lab’s GReAT team in Latin America to discuss the happenings of the second day of the conference. During our conversation we recap the conference, discuss the Slingshot APT as well as some of the other news coming out of the conference. For the full […]