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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:53:26 +0000

Cybercriminals constantly latch on to news items that captivate the public’s attention, but usually they do so by sensationalizing the topic or spreading misinformation about it. Recently, however, cybercrooks have started disseminating real-time, accurate information about global infection rates tied to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to infect computers with malicious software.

MalwareBytes Security

March 17, 2020 admin

APT36 jumps on the coronavirus bandwagon, delivers Crimson RAT

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We look at a spear phishing attack from APT36, an Advanced Persistent Threat group posing as the government of India and offering guidance on coronavirus. Instead, users are infected with a Crimson RAT that steals data.

Categories:

Threat analysis

Tags: APT APT36 coronavirus coronavirus malware covid-19 credential stealer crimson rat exploit exploits info-stealer macro malicious macro malware nation-state attack rat remote administration tool Social Engineering spear phishing spear phishing attack transparent tribe

Independent Krebs

March 17, 2020 admin

Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs “https”

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:28:57 +0000

Earlier today, KrebsOnSecurity alerted the 10th largest food distributor in the United States that one of its Web sites had been hacked and retrofitted with code that steals credit card and login data. While such Web site card skimming attacks are not new, this intrusion leveraged a sneaky new domain that hides quite easily in a hacked site’s source code: “http[.]ps” (the actual malicious domain does not include the brackets, which are there to keep readers from being able to click on it).

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March 17, 2020 admin

The effects of climate change on cybersecurity

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:55:13 +0000

We explore the relationship between climate change and cybersecurity, two of the major issues of our time. Does cybersecurity actually contribute to global warming? Or can climate change illicit an uptick in cybercrime? We take a look.

Categories:

Awareness

Tags: climate change cooling cybersecurity datacenters energy consumption global warming supercomputers

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Independent Krebs

March 17, 2020 admin

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2020 Edition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 23:44:29 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today released updates to plug more than 100 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and associated software. If you (ab)use Windows, please take a moment to read this post, backup your system(s), and patch your PCs.

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March 17, 2020 admin

Coronavirus impacts security conferences and events: check your schedule

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:02:04 +0000

We look at upcoming cancellations, postponements, and moves to virtual for security conferences in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Categories:

Security world

Tags: black hat bsides cancellations conferences coronavirus DEF CON disruption events infosec RSA RSA Conference security conference security conferences security event

MalwareBytes Security

March 17, 2020 admin

RemoteSec: achieving on-prem security levels with cloud-based remote teams

Credit to Author: Dan Macharia| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:53:43 +0000

Times are quickly changing and many teams are scrambling to embrace a shift to remote work. How will security protocols change? Time to move from on-prem to RemoteSec.

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Business

Tags: cloud infrastructure cloud security cloud services remote security remote work remote workers remote working remotesec telecommuting V2 Cloud workforce

Independent Krebs

March 17, 2020 admin

FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:17:42 +0000

FBI officials last week arrested a Russian computer security researcher on suspicion of operating deer.io, a vast marketplace for buying and selling stolen account credentials for thousands of popular online services and stores. Kirill V. Firsov was arrested Mar. 7 after arriving at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, according to court documents unsealed Monday. Prosecutors with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California allege Firsov was the administrator of deer.io, an online platform that hosted more than 24,000 shops for selling stolen and/or hacked usernames and passwords for a variety of top online destinations.