{"id":6974,"date":"2017-03-14T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/14\/news-765\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T21:10:14","slug":"news-765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/14\/news-765\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (Mar 6th \u2013 Mar 12th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:58:50 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we had a bumper crop of blog posts for you to get your teeth into, including our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2017\/03\/malwarebytes-labs-presents-cybercrime-tactics-techniques-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/03\/mobile-menace-monday-facebook-lite-infected-with-spy-fakeplay\/\" target=\"_blank\">issue with a popular mobile app<\/a> called &#8220;Facebook Lite&#8221;, and we poked around a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/03\/drafta-multi-purpose-fake-online-scanner\/\" target=\"_blank\">fake online scanner<\/a>. We also took a rummage around the large collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/03\/mac-security-facts-and-fallacies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac security myths<\/a>, warned you away from a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/03\/federal-ministry-agriculture-419-spam\/\" target=\"_blank\">419 scam<\/a>,\u00a0walked you through the joys of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/how-tos\/2017\/03\/torify-analyze-traffic-vm\/\" target=\"_blank\">TORifying a VM<\/a>, and gave you an <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2017\/03\/exploit-kits-winter-2017-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Exploit Kits review<\/a>. Finally, we took a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2017\/03\/cryptoblock-and-its-c2\/\" target=\"_blank\">CryptoBlock Ransomware<\/a>, and did much the same for <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2017\/03\/spora-ransomware\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Androids infected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/03\/12\/malware_infecting_androids_somewhere_in_the_supply_chain\/\" target=\"_blank\">somewhere along the supply chain<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A fascinating look into cybercrime in <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.trendmicro.com\/assets\/wp\/wp-cybercrime-in-west-africa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">West Africa<\/a>\u00a0[PDF].<\/li>\n<li>185,000+ wi-fi cameras have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2017\/03\/09\/vulnerable-wi-fi-cameras\/\" target=\"_blank\">bit of an issue<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Instagram credential stealers were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welivesecurity.com\/2017\/03\/09\/new-instagram-credentials-stealers-discovered-google-play\/\" target=\"_blank\">doing the rounds on Google Play<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/proton-rat-malware-not-a-positive-development-for-mac-users\/article\/642132\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mac RATs<\/a>? Oh my.<\/li>\n<li>Fileless DNS Malware causes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/sec-phishing-attacks-dns-malware-fireeye\/\" target=\"_blank\">trouble at the top<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay safe!<\/p>\n<p>The Malwarebytes Labs Team<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/03\/a-week-in-security-mar-6th-mar-12th\/\">A week in security (Mar 6th \u2013 Mar 12th)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/03\/a-week-in-security-mar-6th-mar-12th\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:58:50 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/03\/a-week-in-security-mar-6th-mar-12th\/' title='A week in security (Mar 6th \u2013 Mar 12th)'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/photodune-3434769-calendar-s.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>A compilation of notable security news and blog posts from the 6th to the 12th of March. This week, we look back at Ransomware, exploit kits and Mac security myths.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Security world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/week-in-security\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Week in security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/exploit\/\" rel=\"tag\">exploit<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/mac\/\" rel=\"tag\">mac<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ransomware\/\" rel=\"tag\">ransomware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/scanner\/\" rel=\"tag\">scanner<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/tor\/\" rel=\"tag\">tor<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/weekly-blog-roundup\/\" rel=\"tag\">weekly blog roundup<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/03\/a-week-in-security-mar-6th-mar-12th\/' title='A week in security (Mar 6th \u2013 Mar 12th)'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/2017\/03\/a-week-in-security-mar-6th-mar-12th\/\">A week in security (Mar 6th \u2013 Mar 12th)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[11638,10454,3765,11639,10497,10618,10498,10506],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-exploit","tag-mac","tag-ransomware","tag-scanner","tag-security-world","tag-tor","tag-week-in-security","tag-weekly-blog-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}