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Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:57:57 +0000
Social media is a tough place for companies. That’s understandable. The idea of connecting people to each other breaks down when one of those people is a major multi-national brand. But there is a place on social for companies and when it’s handled well, it’s amazing. Unfortunately, as much as positive examples show personality and…
Credit to Author: Bill Brenner| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:12:02 +0000
The dark digital world facilitates massive hacks like the one that affected Yahoo. James Lyne, our global head of security research, walks NBC Nightly News reporter Tom Costello through this haven for hackers. The report comes hot on the heels of a two-part segment on the dark web and ransomware that aired on the Today […]
Credit to Author: David Wang and He Xu| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 10:59:31 -0700
Introduction Fortinet recently discovered a new botnet capable of stealing large amounts of user information, as well as remotely manipulating compromised machines. The malware appears to be based on an older botnet known as Grabbot, which was first discovered back in November of 2014[1]. This new variant improves on that existing functionality while adding several dangerous new features. This blog aims to offer a quick insight into how Grabbot functions. Replication The bot can be found hosted on a number of compromised websites with a…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:00:41 +0000
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| In this short series of posts, we will take a deep dive in a sample of Diamond Fox delivered by the Nebula Exploit Kit (described here). We will also make a brief comparison with the old, leaked version, in order to show the evolution of this product. Categories: Tags: Diamond FoxGornychmalwareVisual BasicVisual Basic Decompiler |
The post Diamond Fox – part 1: introduction and unpacking appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Keith Rayle| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:50:01 -0700
Blockchain is a technology that basically distributes a ledger. For those of you in the financial management world, you know a ledger as the trusted source of transactions or facts. The same is true with blockchain. But instead of existing in a large leather bound tome or in a financial management application, blockchains are managed by a distributed set of computing resources working together to maintain that ledger. Each transaction, or block within it, is linked together in an indisputable manner using public/private key encryption and internal…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:00:04 +0000
There was never any doubt what my topic would be for this week’s blog. March Madness, right? Normally I’d be talking about the NCAA Basketball tournament, but not this time. Our March Madness is called Pwn2Own. We celebrated the 10th anniversary of Pwn2Own in Vancouver this week with the biggest contest ever with 11 teams…
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:00:21 +0000
Social networks are publicly recognizing a responsibility to restrict third-party data surveillance, but it’s a challenging role. The post Facebook’s Big ‘First Step’ to Crack Down on Surveillance appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:42:52 +0000
The second day of competition in this year’s Pwn2Own closed out with a record 17 entries for a single day. In fact, due to the significant number of contestants registered for the 10th anniversary edition of Pwn2Own, we divided the second day into two different tracks: Track A focus on Adobe and Microsoft products while…
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