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Researchers find previously unknown, early version of ‘Proton’ Mac malware

Bradley Barth

July 26, 2018

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered what appears to be an early developmental prototype of the Proton backdoor malware that typically infects macOS users who download fake security applications.

Cybercrime

Spam and eggs: Red Hen restaurant’s website apparently injected with SEO spam links

Bradley Barth

June 28, 2018

The website for the restaurant that recently refused to host White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was found unknowingly hosting hidden code linking to ads for Viagara and other pharmaceuticals.

Cybercrime

Trojanized CMS plug-ins infect thousands of websites in tech support scam campaign

Bradley Barth

May 8, 2018

A recently uncovered tech support scam campaign has compromised thousands of websites with malicious ad injections that redirect users to a browser locker page that claims their computers are infected.

Cybercrime

A brief history of crime: Email scammers push fake Stephen Hawking contest

Bradley Barth

March 26, 2018

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that a recently observed spam campaign offering an $8 million prize to whoever can answer three questions about the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is a big-time scam.

Cybercrime

DDoS round-up: Russia claims election website was attacked; New tool offers memcached amplification attacks

Bradley Barth

March 20, 2018

Russian officials are claiming their Central Election Commission's website repelled a distributed denial of attack last Sunday during the country's national elections, which incumbent President Vladimir Putin predictably won in a landslide victory.

Phishing

Edward Snowden returns to U.S.! Oops, nope, it’s a phishing scam

Bradley Barth

February 14, 2018

No, NSA whistleblower and U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden did not just purchase a 2 terabyte storage plan for iCloud, nor has he moved back to the States.

Ransomware

RIG and GrandSoft exploit kits shell out new GandCrab ransomware

Bradley Barth

January 31, 2018

Breaking from typical ransomware distribution tactics, the attackers behind the new malicious cryptor GandCrab are relying on a pair of exploit kits - RIG EK and GrandSoft EK - to infect unwitting victims.

Vulnerabilities

Experts: Fixing Spectre and Meltdown has required ‘new computer science,’ extraordinary collaboration

Bradley Barth

January 12, 2018

A Google official on Thursday referred to the Spectre and Meltdown computer chip bugs as “the most challenging and hardest to fix in a decade,” requiring unprecedented levels of cooperation — a contention that gibes with the accounts of additional infosec experts keeping a close eye on patching efforts. Ben Treynor Sloss, VP of engineering…

Mobile Security

Three more Android malware families invade Google Play Store

Bradley Barth

November 16, 2017

Collectively downloaded millions of times, 158 fake Android applications containing mobile malware were recently found smuggled into the Google Play Store, according to a trio of separate research reports that were published within days of each other. Researchers at McAfee did the heaviest lifting, spotting Grobas, a program that pushes unwanted apps, in 144 trojanized…

Vulnerabilities

APT group’s active exploit of Flash bug prompts emergency Adobe patch

Bradley Barth

October 17, 2017

Adobe Systems on Monday issued an emergency patch for a zero-day Flash Player vulnerability, after an APT group was discovered actively exploiting the bug as a means to infect machines with FinSpy surveillance malware.

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Researchers find previously unknown, early version of ‘Proton’ Mac malware

Spam and eggs: Red Hen restaurant’s website apparently injected with SEO spam links

Trojanized CMS plug-ins infect thousands of websites in tech support scam campaign

A brief history of crime: Email scammers push fake Stephen Hawking contest

DDoS round-up: Russia claims election website was attacked; New tool offers memcached amplification attacks

Edward Snowden returns to U.S.! Oops, nope, it’s a phishing scam

RIG and GrandSoft exploit kits shell out new GandCrab ransomware

Experts: Fixing Spectre and Meltdown has required ‘new computer science,’ extraordinary collaboration

Three more Android malware families invade Google Play Store

APT group’s active exploit of Flash bug prompts emergency Adobe patch

Mozilla patches three critical issues in Thunderbird and Firefox