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Dofoil Crypto Mining Malware Impacting Window Users

March 9, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

Numerous variants of the trojan Dofoil repeatedly attempted to infect Microsoft Windows systems on Tuesday, trying to install a cryptocurrency miner. On Wednesday, the company reported a defensive victory over the fast-moving campaign. Across a … [Read more...] about Dofoil Crypto Mining Malware Impacting Window Users

Filed Under: Cryptomining, Malware Tagged With: Dofoil, Malware, Malwarebytes, Microsoft, Russia, Smoke Loader, Turkey, Ukraine, Windows Defender Ukraine

Emotent Virus Infects a City’s Computer System

February 22, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

This week, the Emotent virus hit an entire city’s computer systems, that of Allentown in Pennsylvania. The Mayor, Ed Pawlowski, announced on Tuesday that the town had been forced into shutting down some of its financial and public safety operations … [Read more...] about Emotent Virus Infects a City’s Computer System

Filed Under: Government, Malware Tagged With: Allentown, damages, email attachments, Emotent, Emotent virus, government, keystroke recording, Malware, Microsoft, Pennsylvania, polymorphic code, self-replicating virus

Skype Zero Day Won’t Be Fixed Anytime Soon

February 16, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

A zero day security flaw in the Skype updater process can be exploited to give an attacker system-level privileges on a vulnerable computer, effectively allowing them access to every part of the targeted operating system. Security researcher Stefan … [Read more...] about Skype Zero Day Won’t Be Fixed Anytime Soon

Filed Under: Application Security, Vulnerabilities Tagged With: DLL hijacking technique, malvertising, Microsoft, Skype, Stefan Kanthak, system-level privileges, zero day, zero day vulnerability

Microsoft and AMD Stop Spectre Patches Updates

January 13, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

Since Microsoft issued the patches for the chipset vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre that came to light via Google’s Project Zero last week, people who have AMD computers have issued complaints about their computers crashing to a Blue … [Read more...] about Microsoft and AMD Stop Spectre Patches Updates

Filed Under: Mining, Vulnerabilities Tagged With: AMD chips, Intel, Meltdown, Microsoft, patches, Spectre

Microsoft Release 14 Patches

January 13, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

On Tuesday, Microsoft released 14 security updates, including fixes for the flaws in Meltdown and Spectre that were widely reported last week, plus a zero-day bug in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in the wild. Adobe separately pushed out a … [Read more...] about Microsoft Release 14 Patches

Filed Under: Vulnerabilities Tagged With: AMD chips, antivirus, Brian Krebs, BSOD, bugs, Computerworld, Intel, Meltdown, Microsoft, patches, Spectre, Woody Leonhard

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