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April 25, 2019 admin

Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report finds businesses hit with 235 percent more threats in Q1

Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 07:01:32 +0000

The Labs team discovered that businesses are being targeted with 235 percent more threats than the previous year. Download the report and find out which threats are revving up, and which are dying out.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 19, 2019 admin

“Funky malware format” found in Ocean Lotus sample

Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 23:00:52 +0000

Recently, one of our researchers presented at the SAS conference on “Funky malware formats”—atypical executable formats used by malware that are only loaded by proprietary loaders. In this post, we analyze one of those formats in a sample called Ocean Lotus from the APT 32 threat group in Vietnam.

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MalwareBytes Security

April 19, 2019 admin

Funky malware format found in Ocean Lotus sample

Credit to Author: hasherezade| Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:37:54 +0000

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Security TrendMicro

April 18, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: Medical Malware and Monitor Hacks

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:00:42 +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, learn how baby monitors may be susceptible to hacking. Also, learn about a medical flaw that enables hackers to hide malware. Read on: Is Your Baby Monitor…

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Security Sophos

April 9, 2019 admin

Machine learning hones weapons of maldoc destruction

Credit to Author: Jason Zhang| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:49:19 +0000

By Jason Zhang Criminals continue to leverage the features of Adobe’s PDF document format to engage in malware and phishing attacks, with no sign of a slowdown. Last year at Black Hat USA, I gave a presentation about PDF-based malware detection using machine learning. We discovered that the best AV engine could only catch fewer […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/3k1sko1i93Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

QuickHeal Security

April 9, 2019 admin

JCry – A Ransomware written in Golang!

Credit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:49:34 +0000

For several months, QH Labs has been observing an upswing in ransomware activity. We found a new ransomware which is written in Go lang. Malware authors are finding it easy to write ransomware in Go lang rather than traditional programming languages. Infection of Jcry ransomware starts with a compromised website. As…

Security TrendMicro

April 5, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: IIoT Threats and Malware Apps

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:00:50 +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, learn about security threats directed at smart manufacturing environments. Also, learn why malware installed from the Android app store increased by 100% last year. Read on: Security…

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MalwareBytes Security

April 3, 2019 admin