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Credit to Author: Dana Torgersen| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:40:41 +0000

Unless you’ve been stuck at a fiery music festival, I don’t need to tell you the threat landscape is constantly evolving and that threats have become increasingly sophisticated at evading detection. Recent Malwarebytes Labs reports, including the 2017 State of Malware shine a light on just how fast these threats continue to spread around the…

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Tags: adware cloud cyberthreats forensics Incident Response Mac OS malware Malwarebytes Incident Response PUP security threat hunting windows

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June 21, 2017 admin

WannaCry’s Never Say Die Attitude Keeps It Going!

Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 07:17:59 +0000

Over the past few months, the cybersecurity world was at buzz due to the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack. The attack was launched on a massive scale. The campaign started after the disclosure of NSA exploit leak by a hacker group called Shadow Brokers. Taking advantage of unpatched systems all over…

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June 21, 2017 admin

Just hovering your computer mouse over a hyperlink can get your computer infected

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:46:49 +0000

In a new kind of attack, cybercriminals are infecting computers with a banking Trojan simply by fooling users into hovering over a link embedded in a malicious PowerPoint file. Attackers are sending malicious PowerPoint Show (PPS) or Open XML Slide Show (PPSX) to users via spam emails. These files only…

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June 14, 2017 admin

New Mac Malware-as-a-Service offerings

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:00:01 +0000

A couple weeks ago, two new Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) offerings for the Mac became available. We take a closer look at these two offerings – a backdoor named MacSpy and a ransomware app named MacRansom.

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Tags: anti-malware for Mac Apple Bleeping Computer Catalin Cimpanu MaaS mac MacRansom MacSpy malware Malware-as-a-Service ransomware

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June 14, 2017 admin

InfoSec 2017: uno sguardo all’album di famiglia del ransomware

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:35:00 +0000

Anche se è ormai considerato dagli addetti ai lavori un argomento ormai trito e ritrito, il ransomware è tra gli argomenti principali di InfoSec Europe 2017. La ragione? Continua a rappresentare un problema esasperante per le aziende e non smette di farla da leone nell’agenda di moltissime conferenze. Recentemente i SophosLabs hanno preso in considerazione […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=37709&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/b-z-U5XTX-I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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June 13, 2017 admin

CertLock Trojan can disable your antivirus software

Credit to Author: Quick Heal Security Labs| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:29:05 +0000

An antivirus software keeps your computer safe from malware, viruses, online threats, and suspicious or harmful elements. Although bypassing this protective guard is a difficult task for attackers, they never stop trying to do so. Recently, we came across a malware that is designed to interfere with the infected system’s…

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June 12, 2017 admin

A week in security (Jun 05 – Jun 11)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:58:27 +0000

A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from the 5th of June to the 11th. We touched on topics like HTTPS, a nasty adware, LatentBot, and other fighters against tech support scams.

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Tags: cybersecurity exploit kit fireball malware Pieter Arntz recap security Social Engineering weekly blog roundup

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June 8, 2017 admin

LatentBot piece by piece

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:00:53 +0000

LatentBot is a multi-modular Trojan written in Delphi and known to have been around since 2013. Recently, we captured and dissected a sample distributed by RIG Exploit Kit. In this post we will describe its modules by taking apart several layers of obfuscation and encryption in order to reveal their true nature.

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