Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:00:37 +0000
The ubiquitous, noisy, SQL-attacking botnet can’t help comparing itself to a deadly disease<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/liyzTwApjDc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:01:31 +0000
A worm focused on concealment and stealth may keep malware payloads hidden from view<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/NyTt0VeuP5I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Xinran Wu| Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:00:39 +0000
Browser add-ons are a common source of privacy and security concerns. While they are usually legitimate software products with real companies behind them, these plug-ins can also be used by unscrupulous software developers as a way to turn downloads of free software into a revenue stream–dropping browser add-ons that gather information from the user, inject […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/ToQR6l1YOJE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:01:17 +0000
In this month’s Patch Tuesday, a total of 128 security vulnerabilities have been patched in Microsoft products, a slight increase compared to the last few months. Only twelve of the vulnerabilities are rated “Critical.” None of the bugs have been found being exploited in the wild (yet). Preceding this month’s update was a fix for […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/02N0ToRkzv0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:30:59 +0000
An opportunistic botnet that tries (not always successfully) to fly under the radar, Kingminer is nevertheless a persistent nuisance that delivers cryptocurrency miners as a payload. The botnet’s operators may be ambitious and capable, but they don’t appear to have endless resources, so they take advantage of any freely available solution to the problem of […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/7fkY6ghW07M” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 15:02:36 +0000
A survey of attacker files reveals orchestration techniques & preferred exploits<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/VIxDxjIG-F0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Sophos| Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 15:16:27 +0000
Ransomware payload added after hotfixes blocked new attacks<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/x2eaSBkk5jM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Mark Loman| Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 11:00:01 +0000
A new ransomware attack method takes defense evasion to a new level—deploying as a full virtual machine on each targeted device to hide the ransomware from view. In a recently detected attack, Ragnar Locker ransomware was deployed inside an Oracle VirtualBox Windows XP virtual machine. The attack payload was a 122 MB installer with a 282 […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/LkOx9NWj1Zo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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