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Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000
As we celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we examine the potential roadblocks and exciting opportunities for women in cybersecurity.
The post 2.5 million-plus cybersecurity jobs are open—women can fill them appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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Credit to Author: Jaromir Horejsi| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We analyze RURansom, a malware variant discovered to be targeting Russia. Originally suspected to be a ransomware because of its name, analysis reveals RURansom to be a wiper.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:31:05 +0000
We look at some fixes Google is releasing to combat a wave of spam made via notifications in Google Docs and other apps.
The post Google takes on Docs notification spammers appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:33:11 +0000
We look at the problems faced by people whose images and life story are misused by criminals for the purpose of romance scams.
The post When fake dating profiles try the military approach appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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FortiGuard Labs discovered a phishing email addressed to a Ukrainian recipient that masqueraded as purchase order containing a PPT attachment aiming to deploy the Agent Tesla RAT. Learn more.
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:25:18 +0000
Mozilla has issued an out of bound update for Firefox and Thunderbird to fix two vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.
The post Update now! Mozilla patches two actively exploited vulnerabilities appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 20:06:37 +0000
Vendors want to fix their bugs as soon as possible. We look at how the big vendors are doing, and what the end user can do.
The post The struggle to reduce bug-fixing time is real appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 10:37:29 +0000
In a time of rapid-changing crisis, here are four SMB cybersecurity best practices to help prevent the most common attacks.
The post Four key cybersecurity practices during geopolitical upheaval appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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