Unique Malspam Campaign Uses MS Publisher to Drop a RAT on Banks
A new email campaign includes a Microsoft Office Publisher file with malicious URLs leading to the FlawedAmmyy RAT.
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Marap Malware Appears, Targeting Financial Sector
A new form of modular downloader packs the ability to download other modules and payloads.
Source: Dark Reading – Threat Intelligence –
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Exploring, Exploiting Active Directory Admin Flaws
Common methods AD administrators use to protect their environments can easily be exploited. Here’s how.
Source: Dark Reading – Threat Intelligence –
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AT&T Faces $224M Legal Challenge Over SIM-Jacking Rings
Cryptocurrency angel investor Michael Terpin seeks damages for “gross negligence” by the carrier, alleging it turned a blind eye to store employees’ malicious
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Leveraging the Power of your End-Users' Human Cognition
Cofense CEO Rohyt Belani makes a case for more aggressively leveraging the unique ability of your most perceptive and well-trained end-users to help
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A Bot Panic Hits Amazon Mechanical Turk
Concerned social scientists turned their analytical skills onto one of their most widely used research tools this week: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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Crowd-sourcing Threat Intelligence & Response Guidance
AlienVault SVP Russ Spitler encourages participation in the large-scale crowdsourced OTX threat intelligence community – as well as the rich expertise of “crowd-curated”
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ThreatList: Almost Half of the World’s Top Websites Deemed ‘Risky’
An analysis of the world’s most-visited websites shows that vulnerable software, too much active content and large amounts of code execution open visitors
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A Chrome Bug Allowed Hackers to Extract Your Private Data From Facebook and Other Web Platforms
A new chrome bug allows attackers to extract private data that stored on Facebook and from other web platforms. The bug affects all
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Trump reverses Obama-era rules on the use of cyber weapons
Move comes in a bid to loosen restrictions on such strikes
Source: The Inquirer – Trump reverses Obama-era rules on the
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