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Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale

February 8, 2020 0 Comments active directory, corp.com, dns name devolution, jas global advisors, jeff schmidt, Latest Warnings, microsoft corp., Microsoft Windows, mike o'connor, namespace collision, The Coming Storm, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:32:04 +0000

As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe.

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HorseDeal Riding on The Curveball!

February 4, 2020 0 Comments Antivirus, certificate, critical vulnerability, cve-2020-0601, Cyber safety, encryption, horsedeal, malware, Microsoft Windows, Privacy, Ransomware, rsa, Security, spoofing, ssl certificate, Tips, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Jayesh kulkarni| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:17:49 +0000

It’s surprising to see how quickly attackers make use of new vulnerabilities in malware campaigns. Microsoft recently patched a very interesting vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday update for January 2020. It’s a spoofing vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validation mechanism for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could…

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First Node.js-based Ransomware : Nodera

January 22, 2020 0 Comments btc, encrypted, encryption, Microsoft Windows, nodejs, Ransomware

Credit to Author: Ravi Gidwani| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:12:25 +0000

Recently while threat hunting, Quick Heal Security Labs came across an unusual Node.js framework based Nodera ransomware. The use of Node.js framework is not seen commonly across malware families. Latest development by threat actors reveal a nasty and one-of-its-kind ransomware being created; one that uses Node.js framework, which enables it to infect Windows…

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Windows 7 reaches End of Life (EOL) – Are you ready for the risks or would you rather upgrade your OS?

January 22, 2020 0 Comments advisory, Microsoft Windows, windows update

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 05:37:49 +0000

14 Jan 2020 marked a huge day for Windows, as Microsoft ended support for Windows 7, the operating system that had been touching lives for nearly 11 years. Introduced almost a decade back, Windows 7 was designed basically to fix the failures that came with Windows Vista. The popularity of…

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Ransomware As A Tool – LockerGoga

August 27, 2019 0 Comments Antivirus, Applications, Cyber crime, Email malware, malware, Microsoft Windows, Ransomware, Security, Threat Report

Credit to Author: Ghanshyam More| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:18:00 +0000

Ransomware authors keep experimenting with the development of payload in various dimensions. In the timeline of ransomware implementations, we have seen its evolution from a simple screen locker to multi-component model for file encryption, from novice approach to a sophisticated one. The Ransomware as a Tool has evolved in wild…

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16 vulnerabilità critiche, alcune delle quali sfruttate, sono state risolte negli aggiornamenti Windows di luglio 2019

July 23, 2019 0 Comments Microsoft Windows, Patch Tuesday, Per gli utenti, Vulnerabilità

Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:01:52 +0000

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