Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
Since the discovery of the Poweliks fileless Trojan in August 2014, researchers have been expecting other similar malware to pop up.
The wait is over: Phasebot malware, which also has fileless infection as part of its routine, is being sold online.
"Unlike most malware, fileless malware hides itself in locations that are ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2015
Researchers with Cylance have identified a new attack technique – built on a vulnerability identified nearly 20 years ago by Aaron Spangler – that can enable the theft of user credentials from PCs, tablets and servers running any version of Windows, according to a Monday post by Cylance.
The “Redirect to ...
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
A long-awaited code review of encryption service Truecrypt has finally been completed, with the good news being that there are no deliberate backdoors in the “relatively well-designed” piece of software.
Cryptographic expert Matthew Green revealed the news in a blog post last week, claiming that the NCC Crypto Services group had found “no ...
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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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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Of all the various malware attack vectors, hacking a person’s router is one of the most effective. A new report from Ara Labs highlights how router attacks have evolved in recent years, and details a new method of serving unwanted advertising via intercepted Google Analytics information.
When evil routers attack
The reason ...
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