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Malvertising: Online Advertisings’ Darker Side
One of the trickiest challenges enterprises face is managing the balance between aggressively blocking malicious advertisements (aka malvertising) and allowing content to remain online, accessible…
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Destructive Malware Goes Mainstream as Attacks Soar 200%
The volume of destructive malware attacks has risen by 200% year-on-year in the first half of 2019, according to new data from IBM X-Force. Once…
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Nation-State APTs Target U.S. Utilities With Dangerous Malware
Researchers believe that nation-state actors are behind several spearphishing campaigns targeting U.S. utility companies with newly-identified malware, which has the capabilities to view system data…
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A universal bypass tricks Cylance AI antivirus into accepting all top 10 Malware
Researchers from Skylight Cyber, an Australian cybersecurity enterprise, have tricked Blackberry Cylance’s AI-based antivirus product. They identified a peculiar bias of the antivirus product towards…
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Hacker Uses Porn To Lure Victims to Download Android Ransomware
A hacker has been using links to a porn app to trick users into installing a new Android ransomware strain. The ransomware, dubbed “Android/Filecoder.C” has been circulating…
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Malware Researcher Hutchins Sentenced to Supervised Release
Marcus Hutchins, the researcher known for stopping WannaCry, avoids jail time over charges of creating and distributing Kronos malware. Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher known…
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Rare Steganography Hack Can Compromise Fully Patched Websites
An unusual steganographic technique that an attacker can use to implant a malicious webshell on unsuspecting websites has been spotted in Latin America. According to…
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VideoLAN’s VLC Media Player Has Serious Flaw
The latest edition of nonprofit VideoLAN’s VLC media player software has what Germany agency CERT-Bund is calling a serious security flaw that allows hackers to…
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Iran-Linked APT34 Invites Victims to LinkedIn for Fresh Malware Infections
The group was posing as a researcher from Cambridge and was found to have added three new malware families to its spy arsenal. A recent…
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