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How the most damaging ransomware evades IT security

November 14, 2019 0 Comments brute force, cryptoworm, EternalBlue, privilege escalation, raas, Ransomware, RDP, smb, SophosLabs Uncut

Credit to Author: Mark Loman| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:50:28 +0000

This article is a condensed version of our report How Ransomware Behaves: What defenders should know about the top families<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/-0DnxPzSZek” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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NVIDIA patches high-severity bugs in Windows GPUs and SHIELD

August 6, 2019 0 Comments NVIDIA, Patch, privilege escalation, security threats, Windows

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:25:21 +0000

NVIDIA has patched five bugs in its Windows GPU display driver, three of which could allow an attacker to execute code on the system.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ZH4iPUoEUDc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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GitHub ‘encourages’ hacking, says lawsuit following Capital One breach

August 6, 2019 0 Comments Amazon cloud services, breach, capital one, class action, data loss, github, insider threats, Law & order, lawsuit, privilege escalation, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:17:54 +0000

The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being “friendly” (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers’ posts.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SJBRTxPFXi8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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How Windows Defender Antivirus integrates hardware-based system integrity for informed, extensive endpoint protection

July 31, 2019 0 Comments assertion engine, cybersecurity, hardware-based isolation, kernel-mode attacks, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, next generation protection, privilege escalation, runtime attestation, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, token swap, token theft, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Security

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:30:35 +0000

The deep integration of Windows Defender Antivirus with hardware-based isolation capabilities allows the detection of artifacts of attacks that tamper with kernel-mode agents at the hypervisor level.

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