Month: June 2017

May 31, 2017  By Michael Mimoso                                             Cybercrime and state-sponsored advanced attacks continue to cling to email as a primary distribution vehicle for first-stage malware. Phishing campaigns thrive in targeted attacks, and criminals have even resuscitated old-school macro malware in attachments to gain that initial foothold on… Continue reading New Machine Learning Behind Early Phishing Detection in Gmail

Help Net Security May 31, 2017   A newly discovered backend data exposure vulnerability, dubbed HospitalGown, highlights the connection between mobile apps and insecure backend databases.                                                     Appthority documented more than 1,000 apps with this vulnerability, and researched in detail… Continue reading Vulnerability affecting 1,000+ apps is exposing terabytes of data

By Eduard Kovacs on May 31, 2017   Symantec has been tracking the activities of a “lone wolf” hacker who has apparently developed a sophisticated piece of malware that he has used to access the systems of at least two major organizations. However, researchers believe the cybercriminal made a relatively small profit and failed to… Continue reading Developer of Advanced ‘Bachosens’ Malware Fails to Hide Identity

See Also: Adware the series, part 1 Adware the series, part 2 Adware the series, part 3   May 31, 2017 by Pieter Arntz   In this series of posts, we will be using the flowchart below to follow the process of determining which adware we are dealing with. Our objective is to give you… Continue reading Adware the series, part 4