Monday, June 20th, 2016
SophosLabs just alerted us to an intriguing new ransomware sample dubbed RAA.
This one is blocked by Sophos as JS/Ransom-DDL, and even though it’s not widespread, it’s an interesting development in the ransomware scene.
Here’s why.
Ransomware, like any sort of malware, can get into your organisation in many different ways: buried inside ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
A password management tool installed by default alongside Trend Micro AntiVirus was found vulnerable to remote code execution thanks to the work of Google's Project Zero security team.
Discovered by Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy, the password tool was built using JavaScript and node.js, and started a local web server that would ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2015
More than 500 websites that used a free analytics service inadvertently exposed their visitors to a nasty malware attack made possible by a hack of PageFair, the anti-adblocking company that provided the analytics.
The compromise started in the last few minutes of Halloween with a spearphishing e-mail that ultimately gave the ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2015
Go online for five minutes. Visit a few webpages. How many pictures do you see?
With the media rich nature of the web, chances are your answer is in the hundreds. It is in this space the future of malicious cyber attacks could be embedded. In a presentation at Hack In ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Trend Micro researchers have found and analyzed a new piece of crypto-ransomware: CryptVault encrypts files, makes them look like files quarantined by an AV solution, asks for ransom and, finally, downloads info-stealer malware.
It arrives on target computers after the user has been tricked into downloading and running a malicious attachment ...
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