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Quick Heal detected over 295 million malware samples in Q1 2017 – Threat Report

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:55:38 +0000

In Q1 2017, 295 million malware samples were detected on the systems of Quick Heal users. The Trojan horse malware family continues the tradition of having the highest detection of all, followed by infectors, worms, and adware. 10 new ransomware families were also detected in this quarter. A notable observation…

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Cosmos Bank website compromised with RIG Exploit Kit which drops Cerber Ransomware

Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:22:25 +0000

Update: The incident has been taken care of by Cosmos Bank and its website (URL) is now clean and safe to use. Compromising popular websites has become a common strategy for attackers to spread infection in a widespread fashion. Attackers exploit unpatched vulnerabilities present on web servers in order to compromise…

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Cybersecurity Quiz – How safe are your kids on the Internet?

Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:23:33 +0000

As fun and constructive as the Internet can be in the life of children and young people, it carries its drawbacks too. With incidences of cybercrime increasing at an alarming rate, children and teens who are connected to the Internet are seen as soft targets by online scammers, predators, hackers,…

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The Results – Pwn2Own 2017 Day Two

Credit to Author: Dustin Childs (Zero Day Initiative Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:42:52 +0000

The second day of competition in this year’s Pwn2Own closed out with a record 17 entries for a single day. In fact, due to the significant number of contestants registered for the 10th anniversary edition of Pwn2Own, we divided the second day into two different tracks: Track A focus on Adobe and Microsoft products while…

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Detecting threat actors in recent German industrial attacks with Windows Defender ATP

When a Germany-based industrial conglomerate disclosed in December 2016 that it was breached early that year, the breach was revealed to be a professionally run industrial espionage attack. According to the German press, the intruders used the Winnti family of malware as their main implant, giving them persistent access to the conglomerate’s network as early…

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Hardening Windows 10 with zero-day exploit mitigations

Cyberattacks involving zero-day exploits happen from time to time, affecting different platforms and applications. Over the years, Microsoft security teams have been working extremely hard to address these attacks. While delivering innovative solutions like Windows Defender Application Guard, which provides a safe virtualized layer for the Microsoft Edge browser, and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection,…

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