Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:27:10 +0000
An Office anti-malware setting that took more than 20 years to arrive… and fewer than 20 weeks to vanish again.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:59:23 +0000
It’s a bit like Log4J, but for configuration files, not for logging.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:52:56 +0000
“As bad as Heartbleed”? We heard that concern a week ago, but we think it’s less ungood than that…
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:55:14 +0000
Running Chrome? Do the “Help-About-Update” dance move right now, just to be sure…
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 18:09:05 +0000
Bust in Canada, now bust in the USA as well.
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Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:49:58 +0000
The “Missing Cryptoqueen” makes the American Top Ten… but not in a good way.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:11:12 +0000
For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The proxy service says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install the proxy software. But new research shows 911 has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own.
Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:55:11 +0000
The FTC will keep an eye on companies that mishandle and misuse data to protect reproductive healthcare data in post-Roe America.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:17:26 +0000
This week on Lock and Code, we discuss how law enforcement can now use your data, ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:51:46 +0000
We take a look at reports of organised review bombing, leading to extortion threats to get the negative ratings removed.
The post Extortionists target restaurants, demand money to take down bad reviews appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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