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Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 19:45:43 +0000

By Andrew Brandt A new ransomware that calls itself MegaCortex got a jolt of life on Wednesday as we detected a spike in the number of attacks against Sophos customers around the world, including in Italy, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, and France. The attackers delivering this new malware campaign employed sophisticated techiques […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/pFdm0BTbxug” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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May 1, 2019 admin

How Anubis uses Telegram (and Chinese characters) to phone home

Credit to Author: Jagadeesh Chandraiah| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 17:01:26 +0000

The ubiquitous Android bank credential thief tries new methods to conceal where it gets its instructions from<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/kaXLm8-CbJs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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April 30, 2019 admin

A taste of the onslaught at the network’s edge

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:01:11 +0000

Edge devices take a licking so the rest of the network can keep on ticking, but they do need a little extra TLC<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/yLDeI_Y5qG8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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April 30, 2019 admin

Perfider Angriff: Verschlüsselung durch Remote Ransomware

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:06:19 +0000

Jeder kann Opfer eines Ransomware-Angriffs werden. Hat sich der erste Schock gelegt – idealerweise nachdem man seine Daten aus dem gesicherten Backup zurückgewonnen hat statt Lösegeld zu zahlen – stellt sich die entscheidende Frage: Wie habe ich mir das eingefangen? Insbesondere dann, wenn selbst die gründlichste Recherche und Durchsicht potenzieller Einfallstore keinerlei Spur für Schadsoftware […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/d0p_P6fxQt4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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April 29, 2019 admin

CVE-2018-18500: write-after-free vulnerability in Firefox, Analysis and Exploitation

Credit to Author: Yaniv| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:35:40 +0000

Editor’s note: This article is a technical description of a bug discovered by a member of the Offensive Research team at SophosLabs, and how the researcher created a proof-of-concept “Arbitrary Read/Write Primitive” exploit for this bug. The vulnerability was deemed critical by Mozilla’s bug tracking team and was patched in Firefox 65.0. It’s written for […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/oTcYk6i594c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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April 29, 2019 admin

Vulnerabilità nella security dei client VPN più diffusi

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 05:36:02 +0000

Numerosi client VPN aziendali sarebbero esposti a una vulnerabilità potenzialmente molto grave<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/BHEdDENmEJY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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April 29, 2019 admin

Vulnerabilità nella security dei client VPN più diffusi

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 05:36:02 +0000