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It’s always DNS, including on July, 2020’s Patch Tuesday

July 14, 2020 admin 0 Comments 2020-07, cve-2020-1032, cve-2020-1036, cve-2020-1040, cve-2020-1041, cve-2020-1042, cve-2020-1043, cve-2020-1350, cve-2020-1374, DNS, Hyper-V, Patch Tuesday, Remote Desktop Protocol, remotefx, SophosLabs Uncut, wormable

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:55:40 +0000

For our roundup of July, 2020’s Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft today published a few patches that need quick attention. Microsoft fixes 123 vulnerabilities across their product lines this month including 20 classified as Critical, and a whopping 103 flagged as Important. As usual all the additional details can be found in the Security Update Guide Release […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/Bm6G-sYuU1g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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RATicate upgrades “RATs as a Service” attacks with commercial “crypter”

July 14, 2020 admin 0 Comments SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: markelpicado| Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 13:00:28 +0000

In May, we reported initial findings on RATicate, a group of actors spreading remote administration tools (RATs) and other information-stealing malware at least since last year. We tracked multiple malicious spam (“malspam”) email campaigns from the group, with attached installers that usually posed as documents related to financial transactions. In recent campaigns, the group’s tactics […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/H5wbQznwSjc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Five reasons to upgrade to Intercept X

July 7, 2020 admin Endpoint, Intercept X, Sophos Products

Credit to Author: Alex Gardner| Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 12:20:49 +0000

It has never been a better time to make the switch to Intercept X. Recently we launched enhanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities that give users the power to ask detailed threat hunting and IT operations questions and quickly get the answers they need. That’s in addition to other new features such as Antimalware […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/bh87Ly6EPQE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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New options for your XG Firewall

July 6, 2020 admin Firewall, Sophos Products, xg, XG Firewall

Credit to Author: Chris McCormack| Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:41:04 +0000

With XG Firewall v18, there are a variety of great upgrade options that you can take advantage of to significantly enhance your network protection, performance, and management capabilities. Protection upgrades Do you have Sophos Sandstorm Protection? It’s a must-have. Sandstorm Protection is available as an add-on subscription and is also part of our “Plus” bundles: […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/AiINBalWkuE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Remote learning: Top five cybersecurity risks for education

July 6, 2020 admin Education, remote working, Sophos Products

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:37:52 +0000

The ongoing pandemic is resulting in a crisis for schools, colleges, and universities the world over. With physical buildings closed, most educational institutes are moving to emergency remote learning and working. For most of them, the transition from physical to online models has happened too quickly. Without proper time to vet potential risks, their networks […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/UjsvoaRt6qA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Remote learning: Top 5 cybersecurity risks for education

July 6, 2020 admin Education, remote working, Sophos Products

Credit to Author: Editor| Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:37:52 +0000

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Mykings jumps on the Corona train

July 2, 2020 admin Botnet, coronav, coronav2, cryptominer, EternalBlue, mykings, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:00:37 +0000

The ubiquitous, noisy, SQL-attacking botnet can’t help comparing itself to a deadly disease<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/liyzTwApjDc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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