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This Week in Security News: Macs, Hacks and Attacks

June 22, 2018 admin cryptocurrency, Current News, Forrester Wave™, GitHub, HealthEquity, Managed Detection and Response

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:30:33 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, GitHub was hacked via their official account with cryptocurrency Sycoin. Also, a phishing attack targeting trustee company HealthEquity led to the release of 23,000 Subscribers’ PHI. Read…

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Malicious cryptomining and the blacklist conundrum

March 26, 2018 admin adblockers, blacklist, coinhive, cryptominers, cryptomining, GitHub, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

When threat actors take to free and disposable cloud services, the battle against malicious cryptomining becomes a lot more difficult.

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Tags: adblockers blacklist coinhive cryptominers cryptomining GitHub

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Massive DDoS attack washes over GitHub

March 2, 2018 admin criminals, ddos, DDos attack, GitHub, memcached, memcrashed, memcrashing, Threat analysis

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:26:48 +0000

We take a look at the colossal DDoS attack on GitHub, the largest-ever on record. How did threat actors do it, and what can companies do to protect against it?

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Tags: ddos DDos attack GitHub memcached memcrashed memcrashing

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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 23

February 9, 2018 admin elon musk, ethereum, GitHub, iPhone, leak, news, podcast, privacy, SCAM, source code, Threats

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:43:35 +0000

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a Ethereum scam in Twitter, China’s surveillance glasses and iPhone source code on GitHub.

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Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer

April 6, 2017 admin Arbor Networks, Augustin Inzirillo, Daniel Inzirillo, FlokiBot, GitHub, Gosya, IBM X-Force, Ilya Kolmanovich, Limor Kessem, Nuclear Bot, Nukebot, Other, Trusteer Rapport

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:22:55 +0000

The author of a banking Trojan called Nuclear Bot — a teenager living in France — recently released the source code for his creation just months after the malware began showing up for sale in cybercrime forums. Now the young man’s father is trying to convince him not to act on a job offer in the United States, fearing it may be a trap set by law enforcement agents.

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A week in security (Mar 27 – Apr 02)

April 4, 2017 admin Adware, GitHub, malware, phishing, ransomware, recap, Sage ransomware, Security world, Week in security, weekly blog roundup, world of warcraft

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:00:17 +0000

A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from March 26th to April 2nd. This week, we look back at phishing campaigns, adware, ransomware, and more.

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