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Emotet 101, stage 2: The malicious attachment and killchain

March 5, 2019 admin 101, Bot, emotet, maldocs, malspam, malware, payload, PDF, Sophos101, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut, spam, Word, XML

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:56:43 +0000

By SophosLabs Research The Emotet malware family is in a constant state of evolution and change. From day to day or week to week, the malware’s creators and distributors take an active role in changing up the killchain – the sequence of events that begins with a victim receiving a malicious file attachment, and ends […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/C8Iq5Z7cCTc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Emotet 101, stage 1: The spam lure

March 5, 2019 admin 101, Bot, emotet, maldocs, malspam, malware, payload, PDF, Sophos101, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut, spam, Word, XML

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:55:43 +0000

By SophosLabs Research Emotet operates on a mass scale. Everything it does, it does in bulk. A typical infection begins when the victim receives a specially crafted spam email. Emotet’s creators send these out by the thousands and, in some cases, the bots themselves send more. The lures employ mass-created malicious document files. The payload […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/7i2oOO4OT8A” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

MalwareBytes Security

A week in security (February 25 – March 3)

March 4, 2019 admin Exploits, gpu, Momo, PDF, Security world, tracking, Twitter, Week in security

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 18:03:33 +0000

A roundup of the past week’s news, including mobile threats, viral scares, PDF tracking, and more.

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Security Sophos

What you need to know for Patch Tuesday, August 2018

August 17, 2018 admin Acrobat, adobe, Flash, microsoft, office, patch, Patch Tuesday, PDF, reader, SophosLabs Uncut, Updates, vulnerabilities, Vulnerability, windows, Windows update

Credit to Author: Andrew ODonnell| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:16:44 +0000

With 23 critical vulnerabilities addressed in patches from Microsoft and Adobe, August is turning out to be a good month for updates — but don’t delay installing them.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/_Fw-RIvgU1s” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

Spearphishers tool up for attack targeting builders

July 26, 2018 admin attachment, Boulder, Colorado, malspam, PDF, phishing, SophosLabs, SophosLabs Uncut, spearphishing

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 06:01:24 +0000

A sophisticated spearphishing attack targets construction contractors in Boulder County, Colorado in the latest iteration of a months-long campaign.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/jUtfsWaE0Zc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

QuickHeal Security

CVE-2018-4990 – Adobe Reader Double Free (Zero Day) vulnerability alert!

May 16, 2018 admin adobe, Adobe Reader, HeapSpray, JavaScript, malware, microsoft windows, PDF, ROP, Vulnerability, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Prashant Kadam| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 13:10:48 +0000

The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-4990 in Adobe Reader enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-09 on May 14, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the in-wild attack is targeted and it impacts limited Windows users. Vulnerable versions…