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Kaspersky Security

January 22, 2020 admin

You, me, and Facebook makes three

Credit to Author: Julia Glazova| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:09:39 +0000

Privacy International talks about period-tracking apps and the perils of sharing secrets with apps.

QuickHeal Security

January 22, 2020 admin

First Node.js-based Ransomware : Nodera

Credit to Author: Ravi Gidwani| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:12:25 +0000

Recently while threat hunting, Quick Heal Security Labs came across an unusual Node.js framework based Nodera ransomware. The use of Node.js framework is not seen commonly across malware families. Latest development by threat actors reveal a nasty and one-of-its-kind ransomware being created; one that uses Node.js framework, which enables it to infect Windows…

QuickHeal Security

January 22, 2020 admin

Windows 7 reaches End of Life (EOL) – Are you ready for the risks or would you rather upgrade your OS?

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:37:49 +0000

14 Jan 2020 marked a huge day for Windows, as Microsoft ended support for Windows 7, the operating system that had been touching lives for nearly 11 years. Introduced almost a decade back, Windows 7 was designed basically to fix the failures that came with Windows Vista. The popularity of…

QuickHeal Security

January 21, 2020 admin

Windows 7 reaches End of Life (EOL) – Are you ready for the risks or would you rather update your OS?

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:37:49 +0000

Fortinet Security

January 21, 2020 admin

Update: Curveball Exploit (CVE-2020-0601) Starts Making the Rounds

Lean more about the recent Microsoft Curveball vulnerability and how FortiClient protects Fortinet customers from exploitation.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/iIjPXKQAzq8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Microsoft Security

January 21, 2020 admin

sLoad launches version 2.0, Starslord

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:00:39 +0000

sLoad has launched version 2.0. With the new version, sLoad, which is a PowerShell-based Trojan downloader notable for its almost exclusive use of the Windows BITS service for malicious activities, has added an anti-analysis trick and the ability to track the stage of infection for every affected machine.

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Security Wired

January 21, 2020 admin