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Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000

Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory

The post Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposes Astaroth attack appeared first on Microsoft Security .

Security Wired

July 30, 2019 admin

A Hacker Stole Data From 100 Million Capital One Customers

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:29:02 +0000

In a criminal complaint, the FBI detailed how a hacker allegedly stole data from 100 million people—and how she got caught.

Security Wired

July 30, 2019 admin

A Critical Device Hack, China’s Social Credit, and More News

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:25:39 +0000

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

MalwareBytes Security

July 30, 2019 admin

Exploit kits: summer 2019 review

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:20:33 +0000

In this edition of our seasonal review of exploit kits, we review active and unique EKs hitting consumers and businesses over the summer 2019 season.

Categories:

Threat analysis

Tags: drive-by EK EKs exploit kits exploits Fallout GreenFlash Sundown Magnitude RIG Spelevo Underminer

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MalwareBytes Security

July 30, 2019 admin

How to get your Equifax money and stay safe doing it

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Equifax has been ordered to pay at least $650 million in relation to its enormous 2017 data breach. Users who were affected might be eligible for a claim. But watch out for scams!

Categories:

Awareness

Tags: credit monitoring data breach data breach settlement Equifax EU European Union Federal Trade Commission fraud fraud prevention FTC gdpr General Data Protection Regulation identity theft phishing scams settlement social security numbers

Microsoft Security

July 30, 2019 admin

Council of EU Law Enforcement Protocol improves cross-border cooperation

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The new EU Law Enforcement Emergency Response Protocol addresses the growing problem of planning and coordinating between governments, agencies, and companies when cyberattacks occur across international boundaries.

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Kaspersky Security

July 30, 2019 admin

Update to iOS 12.4 right away

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:16:37 +0000

Six severe vulnerabilities in iMessage that allow remote execution and data stealing with no user interaction? Sounds like a good reason to update to iOS 12.4 as soon as possible.

QuickHeal Security

July 30, 2019 admin

MegaCortex Returns…

Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 07:27:12 +0000

MegaCortex, a ransomware which was first spotted in January this year, has become active again and has changed the way it previously attacked/targeted the corporate world. In order to simplify its execution and increase its scale of operation, it uses ‘Command Prompt’ instead of ‘PowerShell’ in current targeted campaign. Key…