PowerShell: Living off the land!

Credit to Author: Aniruddha Dolas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:14:28 +0000

Trend of PowerShell based malware is increasing. General trend observed shows that malware authors use new techniques for infection and propagation of malwares along with open source tools. PowerShell gets executed with high privileges and that’s why it easily performs its activity and propagates through network. Quick Heal Security Lab…

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Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:07:32 +0000

Production systems aren’t supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YVYbkKJr18k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook: ‘Technical error’ let strangers into Messenger Kids chats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:58:00 +0000

It won’t happen again, Facebook told senators who wondered how well it’s handling kids’ privacy in the chat app abhorred by kids advocates.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/A2XiqyuYDg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:35:34 +0000

Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down so that only Apple employees get to listen to it.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/YC7GTRUdtR8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google warns of system-controlling Chrome bug

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:34:24 +0000

Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HwRH9qy2X3g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ransomware Bites Dental Data Backup Firm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:59:11 +0000

PerCSoft, a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack.

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Why organizations need intelligent EDR

Credit to Author: Alex Gardner| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:18:19 +0000

This is the first of three articles looking at why organizations need EDR in today’s threat landscape, why many find EDR difficult to use, and how Sophos is addressing these challenges.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/OSb4xGv0Ewg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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