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Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete Receives 5-Star Review from SC Magazine

Credit to Author: Andrew Stevens| Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 12:00:37 +0000

Cloud security is critical, because hackers have set their sights on the virtual realm.The best days are the ones you wake up to good news you weren’t expecting, right? Well, earlier this month we woke up to find out the Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete had received a five-star rating and “Best Buy” recommendation from one of the security industries leading publications at SC Magazine. “This is absolutely…

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OAuth Phishing On The Rise

Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 22:59:29 +0000

Recently there was a significant volume of new phishing emails aimed at capturing access to Google accounts…specifically your email and contacts. You can read more about it at The Verge, Quartz, and Ars Technica. This phish is a great—evil !?!—example of a sophisticated attempt to gain access to a large number of users accounts. In…

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Google Docs App spam goes phishing

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 19:51:53 +0000

There’s a very clever phishing scam going around at the moment involving Google Docs App. Originally thought to be targeting journalists given the sheer number of them mentioning it on their Twitter feeds, it’s also been slinging its way across unrelated mailboxes – from orgs to schools/campuses.

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Deep Analysis of New Emotet Variant

Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 10:50:33 -0700

Background Last week, FortiGuard Labs captured a JS file that functions as a malware downloader to spread a new variant of the Emotet Trojan. Its original file name is Invoice__779__Apr___25___2017___lang___gb___GB779.js.  A JS file, as you may be aware, is a JavaScript file that can be executed by a Window Script Host (wscript.exe) simply by double-clicking on it. In this blog we will analyze how this new malware works by walking through it step by step in chronological order. A JS file used to spread malware The original JS code…

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