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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:23:00 -0700

Never underestimate what a person can come up with when he or she is bored as was recently highlighted by the accidental release of a ransomware that required victims to reach an astronomically high score on an anime-style shooter game instead of paying an outrageous ransom in bitcoins.

The Malware Hunter Team was surprised to discover Rensenware; they said the ransomware did not ask “for any money, but to play a game until you reach a score – and it’s not a joke.”

Victims who wanted their files decrypted were required to score over 200 million points in the “lunatic” level of the game TH12 ~ Undefined Fantastic Object.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 10, 2017 admin

How to improve Dynamic Lock in Windows 10 Creators Update

Credit to Author: Ed Tittel| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:44:00 -0700

When Microsoft released Build 15031 of the Windows 10 Insider Preview on February 8, 2017, it added a new OS feature for Bluetooth-equipped devices. It’s called Dynamic Lock, and lets you control access to your PCs based on how close they — and your Bluetooth-paired phones — are to them. That is, if the phone you’ve paired with your PC (it works for laptops, notebooks, tablets and desktops) is not found within radio range of your PC, Windows 10 turns off the screen and locks the PC after 30 seconds have elapsed. Thus, Dynamic Lock makes a dandy new security feature in Creators Update, one that most business users (or their IT departments) will find worth turning on and using.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 10, 2017 admin

ShadowBrokers fails to collect 1M bitcoins – releases stolen information

Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:49:20 +0000

ShadowBrokers finally made good on their promise to release the decryption key to unlock the stolen ‘auction’ file purportedly filled with NSA hacking tools.

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Tags: Equation Group exploits hack hacking NSA opsec President Trump ShadowBrokers

Fortinet Security

April 10, 2017 admin

The True Value of Data

Credit to Author: Keith Rayle| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:00:15 -0700

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 10, 2017 admin

Email-based attacks exploit unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word

Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:08:00 -0700

Attackers have been exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word for the past few months to compromise computers and infect them with malware.

The first report about the attacks came Friday from antivirus vendor McAfee after the company’s researchers analyzed some suspicious Word files spotted a day earlier. It turned out that the files were exploiting a vulnerability that affects “all Microsoft Office versions, including the latest Office 2016 running on Windows 10.”

The flaw is related to the Windows Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) feature in Microsoft Office that allows documents to embed references and links to other documents or objects, the McAfee researchers said in a blog post.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 10, 2017 admin

Update: Spain arrests accused Russian spammer at U.S. request

Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:02:00 -0700

A Russian man long connected with sending spam emails has been arrested and is being held in Spain, with a law enforcement source contradicting news reports saying he was involved with a computer virus linked to President Donald Trump’s recent election victory.

The arrest of Piotr Levashov at the Barcelona airport on Friday was not tied to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, said the source, who is close to the investigation. That contradicts news reports from Agence France-Presse (AFP) and other news outlets, which said Levashov’s wife, Maria Levachova, was told his arrest was connected to Trump’s election.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 10, 2017 admin

USPS-themed malspam now delivering 1-2-3 Knock-out

Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 15:00:43 +0000

We’ve detected an uptick in USPS-themed malspam walloping users with a 1-2-3 knock-out of nasty malware designed to infiltrate your system and steal all your most valuable information. This malware-laced email is actively being distributed with various Subject and Body messages containing references to missing and/or late USPS parcels.

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Tags: JavaScript malspam malware trojan Trojan.Boaxxe Trojan.Kovter USPS

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Fortinet Security

April 10, 2017 admin

Can your Firewall do This?

Credit to Author: Rajoo Nagar| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:35:23 -0700

FortiGate 7060E – Delivering Layer 7 Security without Performance Compromises In today’s cloud scale data centers, security is front and center. The changing threat landscape, more and increasingly diverse threats, and much larger attack surfaces have made security top of mind for CIOs and IT teams worldwide. Networks are undergoing a radical transformation. With over 35B IoT devices attaching to networks, and a global cloud revolution fueled by a hyper-connected digital economy and driven by data, by 2020 almost all traffic entering…