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RansomFree Is the Latest App That Tries to Stop Ransomware Infections on Windows
The team at Cybereason released today a new tool that tries to help users stay safe from ransomware infections. Named RansomFree, this application can help users of Windows 7, 8 and 10, and Windows...
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Ethereum Cryptocurrency Forum Suffers Data Breach
Administrators of the Ethereum Project have announced today a data breach that affected over 16,500 users of the platform’s community forums. Ethereum is the name of the platform on which users can...
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New Linux/Rakos threat: devices and servers under SSH scan (again)
Apparently, frustrated users complain more often recently on various forums about their embedded devices being overloaded with computing and network tasks. What these particular posts have in common is...
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In my five years with IOActive, I’ve had the opportunity to visit some awesome places, often thousands of kilometers from home. So flying has obviously been an integral part of my routine. You might...
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New “Alice” Malware Drains All Cash from ATMs
A newly discovered family of malware targeting ATMs (automated teller machines) has been designed with the sole purpose of emptying cash from the safes of the self-serve machines, Trend Micro security...
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Malware Disguises Installer as Windows “Save As” Dialog Box
Malware distributed via affiliate programs and bundled with other applications is using a devious tactic to fool users into installing it on their systems. Detected this month by malware analysts from...
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Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Tracked Ukrainian Military Using Android Malware
A cyber-espionage group linked to the Russian military has developed Android malware which it used to infect the smartphones of Ukrainian soldiers and track Ukrainian field artillery units, according...
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Don’t pay up to decrypt – cure found for CryptXXX ransomware, again
Back to the drawing board, boys. It’s third time unlucky for the scumbags behind CryptXXX ransomware, as their shoddy coding has been cracked yet again. CryptXXX is a particularly nasty form of the...
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How to Protect and Harden a Computer against Ransomware
2016 is almost over and it definitely taught us one thing; Ransomware is here to stay and it’s only going to get worse. With even the smaller ransomware developers earning a lot of money, the...
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Phishing Actors Take a Cue From Malware-Distributing Brethren
Recently, Proofpoint researchers have observed a number of email campaigns with attached password-protected malicious documents. These documents are primarily used to distribute malware including...
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Alice Bank ATM Malware Discovered After Being Around For Over Two years
Bank ATMs are being targeted by a new type of malware that has security researchers puzzled. Alice, as this malicious software is called, was recently discovered by Trend Micro. What is rather...
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New DeriaLock Ransomware Active on Christmas, Includes An ‘Unlock All’ Command
Today, on Christmas Eve, G Data malware analyst Karsten Hahn has come across a new ransomware family named DeriaLock, which locks your screen and requests a payment of $30. Ransomware families...
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Pentesting Windows environments: remote delivery of PowerShell payloads
PowerShell is an amazing post-exploitation tool available to the attacker during engagements in Windows environments. Tools like PowerSploit or PowerShell Empire help out a lot during internal test....
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CERT Switzerland Temporarily Cripples Tofsee Botnet
Last week, the Swiss Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCERT), together with SWITCH, the registrar of .ch top-level domain names, have taken action against the Tofsee malware botnet that...
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Automated Ettercap TCP/IP Hijacking Tool – Morpheus
Morpheus is a framework tool which automates TCP/UDP packet manipulation tasks by using etter filters to manipulate target requests/responses under MitM attacks replacing the TCP/UDP packet contents by...
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Adups Backdoor Found in Latest Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet
Barnes & Noble has joined the list of Android device vendors who sold smartphones and tablets affected by the Adups backdoor. According to the findings of Linux Journal reporter Charles Fisher, the...
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Switcher: Android joins the ‘attack-the-router’ club
Recently, in our never-ending quest to protect the world from malware, we found a misbehaving Android trojan. Although malware targeting the Android OS stopped being a novelty quite some time ago, this...
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RanSim: Test ransomware attacks on your Windows PC
Ransim is a ransomware simulator for Windows that simulates attacks of ten ransomware families against the computer system. Ransomware is without doubt a relatively new threat category that has gained...
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Android Ransomware Infects LG Smart TV
Security firms have been warning us for more than a year about the possibility of Android malware jumping from phones and tablets to other Android-powered devices, such smart TVs. The latest incident...
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Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware
A recently discovered variant of the KillDisk malware encrypts files and holds them for ransom instead of deleting them. Since KillDisk has been used in attacks aimed at industrial control systems...
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