{"id":7141,"date":"2017-03-28T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/news-932\/"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T23:12:00","slug":"news-932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/news-932\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (Mar 20th \u2013 Mar 26th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:40:11 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we investigated\u00a0Twitter app scammers using <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/03\/twitter-app-spams-fappening-bait-amazon-surveys\/\" target=\"_blank\">stolen celebrity nudes as bait<\/a>, explored the world of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2017\/03\/helpdetectwz-chinese-backdoor-drivers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese PUPs and backdoors<\/a>, took a deep dive into a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/exploits-threat-analysis\/2017\/03\/canada-u-k-hit-ramnit-trojan-new-malvertising-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ransomware campaign<\/a> targeting people in the UK and Canada, and looked at a bout of <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/social-engineering-cybercrime\/2017\/03\/sms-phishing-for-the-masses\/\" target=\"_blank\">SMS Phishing<\/a>. We also examined the claims of hackers in relation to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/03\/hackers-threaten-wipe-apple-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\">wiping Apple devices<\/a>\u00a0and poked around a tech support\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/03\/advanis-tech-support-screenlocker\/\" target=\"_blank\">screenlocker scam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Word documents that can go after <a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/malware-that-targets-both-microsoft-apple-operating-systems-found\/124531\/\" target=\"_blank\">both Mac and Windows machines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>10 industrial plants run into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/03\/22\/malware_siemens_plc_firmware\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malware trouble<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What projects can stay and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3184399\/security\/malware-finds-unwitting-ally-in-github.html\" target=\"_blank\">which ones need to go<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Citadel Malware: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/inquirer\/news\/3006915\/russian-chap-pleads-guilty-to-developing-and-distributing-citadel-malware\" target=\"_blank\">It was me.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Android Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/03\/23\/android_forums_breach\/\" target=\"_blank\">suffers a breach<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the Internet of Things, <a href=\"http:\/\/seclists.org\/fulldisclosure\/2017\/Mar\/63\" target=\"_blank\">not even your dishwasher<\/a> is immune.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s a whole lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2017\/03\/22\/lithuanian-arrested-scam\/\" target=\"_blank\">BEC scamming<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay safe, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>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-20th-mar-26th\/\">A week in security (Mar 20th \u2013 Mar 26th)<\/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-20th-mar-26th\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:40:11 +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-20th-mar-26th\/' title='A week in security (Mar 20th \u2013 Mar 26th)'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photodune-702886-calendar-l.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 20th to the 26th of March. This week, we look back at phishing campaigns, PUPs, ransomware, and more.<\/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\/news-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">news<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/phishing\/\" rel=\"tag\">phishing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/pups\/\" rel=\"tag\">PUPs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ransomware\/\" rel=\"tag\">ransomware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/week-in-security\/\" rel=\"tag\">week in security<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/weekly-roundup\/\" rel=\"tag\">weekly 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-20th-mar-26th\/' title='A week in security (Mar 20th \u2013 Mar 26th)'>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-20th-mar-26th\/\">A week in security (Mar 20th \u2013 Mar 26th)<\/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":[32,3924,2130,3765,10497,10498,11238],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-news","tag-phishing","tag-pups","tag-ransomware","tag-security-world","tag-week-in-security","tag-weekly-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","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=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}