{"id":8052,"date":"2017-06-26T08:10:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/26\/news-1829\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T08:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:10:40","slug":"news-1829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/06\/26\/news-1829\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in security (June 19 \u2013 June 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:27:04 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we expanded on all the different technologies that Malwarebytes uses to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/06\/breaking-the-attack-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">break the attack chain<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/101\/2017\/06\/breaking-the-attack-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Incident Response solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also warned you about a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/06\/the-roblox-robux-generator-is-too-good-to-be-true\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roblox Robux generator scam<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/cybercrime\/2017\/06\/barclays-bank-customers-targeted-phishers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">phish targeting customers of Barclays Bank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are notable news stories and security-related happenings from last week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We heard some WannaCry echoes as Microsoft announced to <a href=\"https:\/\/betanews.com\/2017\/06\/19\/microsoft-disables-smbv1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">retire SMBv1 from the fall<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/06\/honda-wannacry-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Honda had to temporarily close one of their plants<\/a> while fighting the infection. All this while more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-40297493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fingers are starting to point at North-Korea<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An analyst stumbled upon an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/security-lapse-exposes-198-million-united-states-voter-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unsecured server containing 198 million records of US voters\u2019 data<\/a>, including personal information and voter profiling data.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2017\/06\/20\/south_korean_webhost_nayana_pays_ransom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Korean web hosting company Nayana reportedly paid around $1 million in bitcoin<\/a> as a ransom to regain control over more than 150 servers.<\/li>\n<li>The fight between Kaspersky and Microsoft continues, but <a href=\"https:\/\/betanews.com\/2017\/06\/20\/microsoft-disables-third-party-anti-virus-software-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft states it was only trying to help AV vendors be compatible with the latest updates<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>While others did their best to install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-no-known-ransomware-windows-we-tried-to-hack-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ransomware on Windows 10 S<\/a> and demonstrated a way to show how it could be done. Which did not stop Microsoft from repeating that Windows 10 S was not vulnerable to any known ransomware.<\/li>\n<li>Google did another Play app store cleaning by removing malicious apps potentially capable of rooting devices and sending expensive SMS messages from the Google Play Store. These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grahamcluley.com\/ztorg-sms-android-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">applications contained the Ztorg trojan<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The CyberTeam claimed responsibility for bringing down Skype in what looks like it was a DDoS attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazine.com\/hacking-group-cyberteam-claiming-responsibility-for-skype-outage-threatens-steam\/article\/670258\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experts are holding off judgement on the method and the claim<\/a> until they follow up with their next claim, which <a href=\"https:\/\/hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com\/blog\/criminal-gang-says-that-they-shut-down-skype-says-steam-is-next-18258.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they announced to be Steam<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-to-stop-scanning-gmail-inboxes-for-advertising-purposes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google announced that it will stop scanning Gmail inboxes for advertising purposes<\/a>. Unfortunately that will not stop the influx of advertisements. They will now be based on the settings of the users of the free Gmail service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Safe surfing, everyone!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Malwarebytes Labs Team<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/06\/week-security-june-19-june-25\/\">A week in security (June 19 \u2013 June 25)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/06\/week-security-june-19-june-25\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:27:04 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='10'>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='center'><a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/06\/week-security-june-19-june-25\/' title='A week in security (June 19 \u2013 June 25)'><img src='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/photodune-702886-calendar-l.jpg' border='0'  width='300px'  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign='top' align='left'>A compilation of security news and blog posts from the 19th to the 25th of June. We touched on topics like Barclays phish, Robux scam, breaking the attack chain and Incident Response.<\/p>\n<p>Categories: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Security world<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/category\/security-world\/week-in-security\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Week in security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/attack-chain\/\" rel=\"tag\">attack chain<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/barclays\/\" rel=\"tag\">barclays<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/cyberteam\/\" rel=\"tag\">cyberteam<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/honda\/\" rel=\"tag\">honda<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/incident-response\/\" rel=\"tag\">Incident Response<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/nayana\/\" rel=\"tag\">nayana<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ransomware\/\" rel=\"tag\">ransomware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/robux\/\" rel=\"tag\">Robux<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/skype\/\" rel=\"tag\">Skype<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/wannacry\/\" rel=\"tag\">WannaCry<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/weekly-blog-roundup\/\" rel=\"tag\">weekly blog roundup<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/tag\/ztorg\/\" rel=\"tag\">ztorg<\/a><\/p>\n<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td align=right>\n<p><b>(<a href='https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/06\/week-security-june-19-june-25\/' title='A week in security (June 19 \u2013 June 25)'>Read more&#8230;<\/a>)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/security-world\/week-in-security\/2017\/06\/week-security-june-19-june-25\/\">A week in security (June 19 \u2013 June 25)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\">Malwarebytes Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10488,10378],"tags":[12702,12744,12803,12804,12657,12805,3765,12727,10497,5156,12252,10498,10506,12361],"class_list":["post-8052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malwarebytes","category-security","tag-attack-chain","tag-barclays","tag-cyberteam","tag-honda","tag-incident-response","tag-nayana","tag-ransomware","tag-robux","tag-security-world","tag-skype","tag-wannacry","tag-week-in-security","tag-weekly-blog-roundup","tag-ztorg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}