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Elaborate scripting-fu used in espionage attack against Saudi Arabia Government

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:06:51 +0000

In this post, we take apart a clever set of scripts used in a targeted attack against the government of Saudi Arabia.

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Keychain vulnerability in macOS

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:11:06 +0000

On Monday, Patrick Wardle, a respected security researcher at Synack and owner of Objective-See, sent a tweet about a keychain vulnerability he had found in macOS High Sierra. As his tweet showed, it is possible for a malicious app to extract, and then exfiltrate, keychain data from High Sierra, with passwords clearly exposed in plain text.

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Attack The Machines: The lucrative business of ATM malware

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:00:43 +0000

Trend Micro and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) today released a publicly available report on the ATM malware landscape. This builds on the 2016 report that was privately released to financial institutions and law enforcement agencies globally. The report digs into the depth and breadth of malware targeting ATMs, as well as the perpetrators behind…

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6 deadly dangers of using unsecured Wi-Fi

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:06:29 +0000

They say, good things come for free, but not all of them. This post quickly takes you through the dangers of using unsecured Wi-Fi and some safety tips should you access such networks. From coffee shops to public libraries, and airports to restaurants, most public places now offer Wi-Fi for…

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Drive-by mining and ads: The Wild Wild West

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:16:27 +0000

Cryptomining in the browser is all the rage lately. But what are the impacts for users when it is being abused by dubious publishers?

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Fake IRS notice delivers customized spying tool

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:00:24 +0000

Threat actors leverage a Microsoft Office exploit to spy on their victims. In this blog post, we will review its delivery mechanism and analyze the malware we observed, a modified version of a commercial Remote Administration Tool (RAT).

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