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A week in security (January 29 – February 04)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:45:17 +0000

A compilation of notable security news from January 28 to February 4, featuring PUPs, a new Mac malware, two new ransomware variants, robocalls, and more.

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Boomerang spam bombs Malwarebytes forum—not a smart move

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:57:42 +0000

Boomerang Tech solutions had trouble configuring their spambots, thus dropping a few spam bombs on Malwarebytes forums. Watch us catch them red-handed in a scammer call.

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Hold your breath, avoid the snake oil, and get Windows updated

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:50:00 -0800

January 2018 was a month that will go down in patching infamy. Looking back on my notes, we had patches released, yanked, re-released and/or re-re-released on 15 different days in January. Untold thousands of machines were bricked by Microsoft patches. Millions of hours were lost chasing down bad patches and bad advice.

Although there were a couple of real bugs fixed in the January patches — the Equation Editor vulnerability being suspect #1 — most of the angst was completely superfluous. The Meltdown/Spectre patches at the heart of the drama attacked a problem that wasn’t — and isn’t — there. We still have no known Meltdown or Spectre exploits in the wild. None.

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