Computer Security Articles – Page 2255 – RSS Reader for Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:03:00 -0700

I used to think that the best way to protect a computer hosting sensitive data was by not connecting it to any network, a process known as air gapping. Ah, the good old days.

WikiLeaks recently revealed that when the computer with the sensitive data is running Windows, even air gapped protection is insufficient. The CIA, using a software system codenamed Brutal Kangaroo, first infects a Windows computer connected to the Internet, then infects any USB flash drive (a.k.a. thumb drive) plugged into that computer, in the hope that the flash drive will eventually be plugged into the air-gap protected machines.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Kaspersky Security

June 28, 2017 admin

ExPetr targets serious business

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:52:32 +0000

Major pain: Critical infrastructure objects are among ExPetr’s (also known as NotPetya) victims.

ScadaICS Schneider

June 28, 2017 admin

Thinking Outside of the Rack: Designing and Planning by Pod

Credit to Author: Patrick Donovan| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:42:17 +0000

In olden times, the supporting infrastructure for data centers and IT rooms would be built out all at once…based on some vague understanding (guess?) of what future IT needs would… Read more »

The post Thinking Outside of the Rack: Designing and Planning by Pod appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Security TrendMicro

June 28, 2017 admin

The Law of Unintended Outbreak – Who Is at Risk from Petya?

Credit to Author: Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:01:32 +0000

Cyber crime can impact individual users and businesses anywhere in the world. Hot on the heels of the global WannaCry outbreak in May, yesterday saw a wave of what looked like copycat malware sweeping the globe again. However, on closer inspection there may more to this than meets the eye, more than a simple new variant of an already established ransomware borrowing propagation techniques from WannaCry. The…

Fortinet Security

June 28, 2017 admin

In-Depth Analysis of .NET Malware JavaUpdtr

Credit to Author: Xiaopeng Zhang| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:15:52 +0000

FortiGuard Labs recently captured some malware which was developed with the Microsoft .Net framework. I analyzed one of them, and in this blog, I’m going to show you how it is able to steal information from a victim’s machine. The malware was spread via a Microsoft Word document that contained an auto-executable malicious VBA Macro. Figure 1 below shows how it looks when it’s opened. Figure 1. When the malicious Word document is opened What the VBA code does Once you click the “Enable Content”…

MalwareBytes Security

June 28, 2017 admin

Solution Corner: Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection

Credit to Author: Ken Liao| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:00:28 +0000

Introducing Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection, our latest endpoint security solution for business. This latest release unifies a number of technologies onto a single agent on the endpoint and adds a new machine learning detection engine into our layered approach to protection.

Categories:

Tags: Anomaly Detection Endpoint Protection Incident Response Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection Malwarebytes Incident Response

(Read more…)

The post Solution Corner: Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

MalwareBytes Security

June 28, 2017 admin

Adware the series, part 6

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:00:13 +0000

In this part of the series, we are going to have a look at types of adware that are very hard to find and remove, like ADS, rootkits, and file-less infections.

Categories:

Tags: ads adware series fileless Pieter Arntz PUPs rootkit trojan wmi

(Read more…)

The post Adware the series, part 6 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Security Wired

June 28, 2017 admin