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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:00:39 +0000

When your computer or mobile device (and now, even your IoT device) is hijacked to secretly mine cryptocurrencies, it’s been cryptojacked and becomes a coinmining zombie. Its CPU, memory, disk, and power are enlisted in varying degrees in the service of the mining botnet, which labors on behalf of those who use it, with other…

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June 8, 2018 admin

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 4, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:12:05 +0000

It was a busy day yesterday, with Adobe issuing four emergency patches for their Flash Player, including one for a zero-day being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe has indicated that CVE-2018-5002 was discovered being used in limited, targeted attacks on Windows users in the wild. The attacks use Microsoft Office documents embedded with malicious…

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June 5, 2018 admin

Building a Profitable Security Services Offering

Credit to Author: Ryan Delany| Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 13:00:59 +0000

Security is the number one concern of business owners today. This isn’t surprising, with all of the hacks, breaches, data thefts, ransomware attacks and privacy violations that we hear about on a daily basis. And those are just the ones we know about – according to the Online Trust Alliance’s (OTA) “Cyber Incident & Breach…

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June 4, 2018 admin

FBI Router Reboot Warning: How Do I Stay Safe from the New VPNFilter Malware?

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:45:43 +0000

You might have seen reports that the FBI is warning home users of a new foreign cyber-attack campaign targeted at your routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Here’s a breakdown of exactly what has happened, and what you need to do to keep your home IT systems safe and secure. What is VPNFilter? This is…

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June 4, 2018 admin

FBI Router Reboot Warning: How Do I Stay Safe from New VPNFilter Malware?

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 14:45:43 +0000

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June 4, 2018 admin

AV-TEST’s April 2018 Windows Home User Test Report Shows 100% Protection Result and Top Product Award for Trend Micro Internet Security

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2018 13:00:48 +0000

Maintaining its Top Product protection rating, Trend Micro Internet Security 12.0 (2018) continues to show 100% Protection results in tests conducted by the internationally respected testing lab AV-TEST.org. In its Mar-Apr 2018 test of 18 endpoint security products on Windows 10, the latest release of Trend Micro Internet Security blocked 100% of 196 “real-world” 0-day…

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June 4, 2018 admin

Malware in the age of IoT

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 23:02:38 +0000

Malware that impacts IoT systems, however, operates a bit differently than traditional malware.

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