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Credit to Author: Sanjay Katkar| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:25:34 +0000

The Government of India recently launched an ambitious project called Cyber Swachhta Kendra (CSK) – a Botnet Cleaning and Malware Analysis Center. Developed under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), this center will be operated by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). Developed as an essential part…

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Kaspersky Security

March 29, 2017 admin

World of Warcraft pet scam

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:54:19 +0000

A phishing scam to try and get you to hand over your battle.net account details is offering a free pet. There’s no free pet.

MalwareBytes Security

March 28, 2017 admin

A week in security (Mar 20th – Mar 26th)

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:40:11 +0000

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.

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MalwareBytes Security

March 28, 2017 admin

World of Warcraft phish campaign lures victims with free pet

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:00:14 +0000

We take a look at a World of Warcraft phish doing the rounds which could stand to do a spot of updating where it’s branding is concerned.

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Independent Krebs

March 24, 2017 admin

Phishing 101 at the School of Hard Knocks

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:03:21 +0000

A recent, massive spike in sophisticated and successful phishing attacks is prompting many universities to speed up timetables for deploying mandatory two-factor authentication (2FA) — requiring a one-time code in addition to a password — for access to student and faculty services online. This is the story of one university that accelerated plans to require 2FA after witnessing nearly twice as many phishing victims in the first two-and-half months of this year than it saw in all of 2015.

MalwareBytes Security

March 23, 2017 admin

Hackers threaten to wipe Apple devices

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:00:40 +0000

According to a report from Motherboard, a group of hackers calling themselves “Turkish Crime Family” is threatening to remotely erase devices belonging to hundreds of millions of Apple customers. They will do this on April 7, they say, if Apple doesn’t pay them a ransom.

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MalwareBytes Security

March 22, 2017 admin