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Credit to Author: Dario Durando & David Maciejak| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:08:43 -0700

For us at FortiGuard, it always sounds like a bad idea for people to share malware source code, even if it is for academic or educational purposes. For example, on GitHub we can currently find more than 300 distinct repositories of ransomware, which gives you some idea about the attention that this form of malware receives. Although ransomware has the highest profile in the threat landscape at the moment, that does not mean that other threats have disappeared. Android is the most wide spread OS on mobile devices, covering around 80% of the…

MalwareBytes Security

April 26, 2017 admin

A story of fonts by the EITest HoeflerText campaign

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:45:58 +0000

The HoeflerText campaign is known for a fake font download that delivers the Spora ransomware. But did you know it also uses special characters in the dropper’s file name?

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Tags: chrome eitest font hoeflertext malware ransomware Spora Ransomware

Security TrendMicro

April 26, 2017 admin

Trend Micro and INTERPOL: Teaming Up Again to Fight Global Cybercrime

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:51:15 +0000

At Trend Micro we have a long history of partnering with law enforcement whenever called upon. We believe that the skills and resources of the private sector can offer allow law enforcement to surge and scale on any particular threat. Combatting the threat posed by transnational cyber criminal groups is ultimately a shared responsibility and…

ComputerWorld Independent

April 26, 2017 admin

Fitbit: One explodes, data from another used to charge husband with wife's murder

Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:54:00 -0700

Oh good, another case of exploding devices. This time the culprit was a Fitbit Flex 2, which allegedly caused second-degree burns on a Wisconsin woman’s arm. She was sitting and reading a book when her Fitbit “exploded” on her wrist. “It was either defective or really mad I was sitting still so long,” she told ABC News. “Either way, it burned the heck out of my arm.”

Dina Mitchell claimed the Fitbit is “totally melted” and her doctor “had to pick pieces of plastic out of her wound.”

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Security TrendMicro

April 26, 2017 admin

Machine learning and the fight against ransomware

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:34:51 +0000

Machine learning could provide valuable cyber security protections against ransomware.

MalwareBytes Security

April 26, 2017 admin

Adware the series, part 1

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 15:00:50 +0000

In this series, we will be using the below flowchart to follow the process of determining which adware we are dealing with. The idea is to give you an idea of how many different types of adware are around for Windows systems.

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Tags: ad fraud adware cache extensions potentially unwanted programs PUP

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Fortinet Security

April 26, 2017 admin

Video Gallery: Fortinet Systems Engineers Discuss Healthcare Security Trends at HIMSS17

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:48:48 -0700

A number of Fortinet employees recently joined with thousands of attendees at the 2017 HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida. These individuals were on hand to discuss the latest healthcare innovations, and to share information about Fortinet’s products and services with HIMSS17 attendees. We had a chance to sit down with several Fortinet Health IT and Security experts to hear what they had to say about the current healthcare security landscape and the products that Fortinet offers to combat evolving threats. Watch the videos (below)…