Malicious actors have abused PowerShell and Google Docs to deliver a Trojan known as Laziok, FireEye reported on Thursday.
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Attackers Use PowerShell, Google Docs to Deliver “Laziok” Trojan
Malicious actors have abused PowerShell and Google Docs to deliver a Trojan known as Laziok, FireEye reported on Thursday.
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Ransomware: A Formidable Enterprise Threat
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Continue readingAdobe Patches Flaw in Analytics AppMeasurement for Flash Library
Adobe released an update on Thursday for the Analytics AppMeasurement for Flash library to address a DOM-based cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability rated “important.”
The AppMeasurement for Flash library allows users to collect video viewing activity and forward the data to Adobe’s data collection servers, where it can be used via Marketing Cloud services.
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Researcher Finds Malicious Web Shell on Facebook Server
A researcher received $10,000 from Facebook after uncovering a serious vulnerability and a malicious web shell left behind by hackers on one of the social media giant’s servers.
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FBI Paid Over $1 Million for iPhone Hack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid hackers more than $1 million to break into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, director James Comey said Thursday.
Asked at the Aspen Security Forum in London how much the US agency paid for help to get into the phone, Comey replied, "A lot."
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DDoS Attacks Continue to Rise in Power and Sophistication
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks observed in the first quarter of 2016 grew more advanced and more sophisticated, Imperva’s Global DDoS Threat Landscape Q1 2016 reveals.
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Nation-State Actors Use Fileless Tricks to Deliver RATs
State-sponsored threat actors in Asia have been leveraging a new technique to deliver remote access Trojans (RATs) without being detected by security products.
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An Occam’s Razor for Security: Less is More
“It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”–Bruce Lee
The rapid growth of innovation in cybersecurity technologies has presented a nearly endless range of new security offerings to address vulnerabilities in our computing environment. But what happens if more is not better?
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New “Panda Banker” Trojan Borrows Code From Zeus
Researchers have come across a new banking Trojan that appears to borrow code from the notorious Zeus.
Dubbed Panda Banker, the threat was discovered in February by Fox IT and later analyzed in detail by experts at Proofpoint.
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