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Living off another land: Ransomware borrows vulnerable driver to remove security software

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:22:24 +0000

Sophos has been investigating two different ransomware attacks where the adversaries deployed a legitimate, digitally signed hardware driver in order to delete security products from the targeted computers just prior to performing the destructive file encryption portion of the attack. The signed driver, part of a now-deprecated software package published by Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte, [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/uepwaOU8_Ek” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fintech security: the challenges and fails of a new era

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:24:35 +0000

The fintech industry has gone through some dramatic changes during the last decade and is still trying to adapt. Is security still one of their priorities?

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