Security – Page 1697 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Sanjay Katkar| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:25:34 +0000

The Government of India recently launched an ambitious project called Cyber Swachhta Kendra (CSK) – a Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Center. Developed under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), this center will be operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). Developed as an essential part…

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Quick Heal Total Security for Android (v2.01) gives 100% malware detection – Latest AV-Test results

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:26:41 +0000

The AV-Test institute is an independent organization that evaluates and rates antivirus software solutions, benchmarking them against various criteria. These evaluations are run for Windows and Android operating systems. In the latest evaluation for mobile security solutions run by the institute (Jan/2017), Quick Heal Total Security App has scored 100%…

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Test your knowledge with Quick Heal Quiz!

Credit to Author: Ankita Ashesh| Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:47:07 +0000

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MalwareBytes Security

March 29, 2017 admin

Websites compromised in ‘Decimal IP’ campaign

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:00:52 +0000

This URL is quite probably unlike anything you’ve ever seen before and yet still works and redirects to malware.

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Tags: 1760468715 EK malware RIG EK RIG exploit kit site hacks

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Security Wired

March 29, 2017 admin

How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting ISIS in Syria

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:32:25 +0000

The strange story of Amir Taaki—Bitcoin coder, anti-ISIS revolutionary, and British terrorism defendant. The post How an Anarchist Bitcoin Coder Found Himself Fighting ISIS in Syria appeared first on WIRED.

Fortinet Security

March 29, 2017 admin

Microsoft Word File Spreads Malware Targeting Both Mac OS X and Windows (Part II)

Credit to Author: Chris Navarrete & Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:29:47 -0700

In the blog we posted on March 22, FortiGuard Labs introduced a new Word Macro malware sample that targets both Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. After deeper investigation of this malware sample, we can confirm that after a successful infection the post-exploitation agent Meterpreter is run on the infected Mac OS X or Windows system. Meterpreter is part of the Metasploit framework. More information about Meterpreter can be found here. For this to work, the attacker’s server must be running Metasploit as the controller to control the…

Kaspersky Security

March 29, 2017 admin

World of Warcraft pet scam

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:54:19 +0000

A phishing scam to try and get you to hand over your battle.net account details is offering a free pet. There’s no free pet.

MalwareBytes Security

March 29, 2017 admin

Explained: Sage ransomware

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:00:24 +0000

Sage is yet another ransomware that has become a common threat nowadays. Similarly to Spora, it has capabilities to encrypt files offline. The malware is actively developed and currently, we are facing outbreak of version 2.2. of this product.

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Tags: encryption hasherezade malware phish ransomware Sage ransomware Spora Ransomware

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