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Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

We look at a spear phishing attack from APT36, an Advanced Persistent Threat group posing as the government of India and offering guidance on coronavirus. Instead, users are infected with a Crimson RAT that steals data.

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Threat analysis

Tags: APT APT36 coronavirus coronavirus malware covid-19 credential stealer crimson rat exploit exploits info-stealer macro malicious macro malware nation-state attack rat remote administration tool Social Engineering spear phishing spear phishing attack transparent tribe

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The effects of climate change on cybersecurity

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:55:13 +0000

We explore the relationship between climate change and cybersecurity, two of the major issues of our time. Does cybersecurity actually contribute to global warming? Or can climate change illicit an uptick in cybercrime? We take a look.

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Awareness

Tags: climate change cooling cybersecurity datacenters energy consumption global warming supercomputers

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Coronavirus impacts security conferences and events: check your schedule

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:02:04 +0000

We look at upcoming cancellations, postponements, and moves to virtual for security conferences in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Security world

Tags: black hat bsides cancellations conferences coronavirus DEF CON disruption events infosec RSA RSA Conference security conference security conferences security event

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RemoteSec: achieving on-prem security levels with cloud-based remote teams

Credit to Author: Dan Macharia| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:53:43 +0000

Times are quickly changing and many teams are scrambling to embrace a shift to remote work. How will security protocols change? Time to move from on-prem to RemoteSec.

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Business

Tags: cloud infrastructure cloud security cloud services remote security remote work remote workers remote working remotesec telecommuting V2 Cloud workforce

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Securing the MSP: best practices for vetting cybersecurity vendors

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:44:33 +0000

How do you spot the unicorn cybersecurity vendors amongst the bad apples? We show MSPs the ins and outs of vendor vetting.

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Business

Tags: cybersecurity vendors enterprise managed service providers MSP risk management SOC SOC teams vetting cybersecurity vendors vetting security vendors

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Rocket Loader skimmer impersonates CloudFlare library in clever scheme

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:46:13 +0000

URLs can be deceiving, but the one used to mimic CloudFlare’s Rocket Loader in the latest Magecart attack takes it to a whole new level.

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Threat analysis

Tags: HTTPS JavaScript Magecart skimmer skimming

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A week in security (March 2 – 8)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:07:46 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s security headlines, including the introduction of a new series on child identity theft, an examination of law enforcement’s cybersecurity woes, a progress check on our stalkerware initiative, and more coronavirus scammers on the prowl.

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A week in security

Tags: a week in security awis cathay pacific coronavirus exploit gdpr malware microsoft Mobile phishing round up security TESCO week in security zynga

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International Women’s Day: awareness of stalkerware, monitoring, and spyware apps on the rise

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

For International Women’s Day, Malwarebytes is measuring the impact of our own campaign to raise awareness and protect users. These are the numbers on stalkerware, monitoring, and spyware apps.

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Stalkerware

Tags: Bureau of Justice Statistics center for disease control and prevention Coalition Against Stalkerware international women’s day monitor monitoring applications monitoring apps spyware stalkerware whatsapp