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A Chip Flaw Strips Away Hacking Protections for Millions of Devices

February 14, 2017 admin aslr, code, hacks, JavaScript, microprocessors, research, Security, Threat Level

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:30:24 +0000

A Chip Flaw Strips Away Hacking Protections for Millions of Devices

A new attack cracks a key hacking protection known as address space layout randomization, leaving millions of computers vulnerable. The post A Chip Flaw Strips Away Hacking Protections for Millions of Devices appeared first on WIRED.

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Software Can’t Fully Fix This Massive New Security Flaw

February 14, 2017 admin aslr, code, hacks, JavaScript, microprocessors, research, Security, Threat Level

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:30:24 +0000

Software Can’t Fully Fix This Massive New Security Flaw

A new attack cracks a key hacking protection known as address space layout randomization, leaving millions of computers vulnerable. The post Software Can’t Fully Fix This Massive New Security Flaw appeared first on WIRED.

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Don’t let this Black Friday/Cyber Monday spam deliver Locky ransomware to you

January 23, 2017 admin anti-malware, Antimalware research for IT pros and enthusiasts, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, JavaScript, JavaScript spam attachment, Locky, malware, MMPC, Nemucod, ransomware, research, spam, Windows Defender

We see it every year: social engineering attacks that take advantage of the online shopping activities around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, targeting customers of online retailers. This year, we’re seeing a spam campaign that Amazon customers need to be wary of. The fake emails pretend to be notifications from the online retailer that a purchase has…

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Double-click me not: Malicious proxy settings in OLE Embedded Script

January 23, 2017 admin Antimalware research for IT pros and enthusiasts, JavaScript, JavaScript spam attachment, JScript, JScript malware, JScript malware prevention, Macro-based malware, malware-prevention blog, mitigate OLE misuse, obfuscated JScript, OLE misuse mitigation, OLE-embedded objects, Social engineering, spam, spam email infection vector, Trojan, Trojan:JS/Certor.A, Trojan:PowerShell/Certor.A, Windows Defender

Attackers have been using social engineering to avoid the increasing costs of exploitation due to the significant hardening and exploit mitigations investments in Windows. Tricking a user into running a malicious file or malware can be cheaper for an attacker than building an exploit which works on Windows 10. In our previous blog, Where’s the…

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Nemucod dot dot..WSF

January 23, 2017 admin Antimalware research for IT pros and enthusiasts, JavaScript, JavaScript spam attachment, JS attachment, Nemucod, Nemucod infection chain, Nemucod mitigation, Social engineering, spam, Trojan, Windows Scripting File, WSF

The latest Nemucod campaign shows the malware distributing a spam email attachment with a .wsf extension, specifically ..wsf (with a double dot) extension. It is a variation of what has been observed since last year (2015) – the TrojanDownloader:JS/Nemucod malware downloader using JScript. It still spreads through spam email attachment, typically inside a .zip file,…

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Gamarue, Nemucod, and JavaScript

January 23, 2017 admin Code obfuscation, Crowti, fareit, Gamarue, JavaScript, maps, Nemucod, ransomware, spam, Tescrypt, Windows Defender, Windows Defender for Windows 10

JavaScript is now being used largely to download malware because it’s easy to obfuscate the code and it has a small size. Most recently, one of the most predominant JavaScript malware that has been spreading other malware is Nemucod. This JavaScript trojan downloads additional malware (such as Win32/Tescrypt and Win32/Crowti – two pervasive ransomware trojans…