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A week in security (March 2 – 8)

March 17, 2020 0 Comments A week in security, awis, cathay pacific, coronavirus, Exploit, GDPR, malware, Microsoft, Mobile, phishing, round up, Security, tesco, week in security, zynga

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:07:46 +0000

A roundup of the previous week’s security headlines, including the introduction of a new series on child identity theft, an examination of law enforcement’s cybersecurity woes, a progress check on our stalkerware initiative, and more coronavirus scammers on the prowl.

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A week in security

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International Women’s Day: awareness of stalkerware, monitoring, and spyware apps on the rise

March 17, 2020 0 Comments bureau of justice statistics, center for disease control and prevention, coalition against stalkerware, international women's day, monitor, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, spyware, Stalkerware, whatsapp

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

For International Women’s Day, Malwarebytes is measuring the impact of our own campaign to raise awareness and protect users. These are the numbers on stalkerware, monitoring, and spyware apps.

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Stalkerware

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Bring your own privacy: VPNs for consumers and orgs

March 17, 2020 0 Comments anonymity, anonymous, desktop, ip address, Mobile, Privacy, Private Browsing, proxy, remote work, remote workers, secure, virtual private networks, vpn, vpns

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:24:33 +0000

VPNs are all the rage, but they’re not without their problems. Where do you stand on the great “Should we deploy a VPN” debate?

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Privacy

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Technology and the power of moral panic

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Awareness, computer games, cyber, discord, elvis, Hacking, kali, Linux, moral panic, poster, video games, virtual machine

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:00:00 +0000

We look at how technology and a splash of moral panic have made for strange companions down the years.

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Awareness

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Are our police forces equipped to deal with modern cybercrimes?

March 17, 2020 0 Comments critical infracstructure, Cybercrime, digital evidence, digital expert, digital tracing, dutch police, FBI, Forensics, network analysis, Opinion, police, threat hunting, us police

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:21:02 +0000

Police forces are working hard to keep up with the latest developments in cybercrime, training digital experts for the purpose. But is it enough? And is it happening across the globe?

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Opinion

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Child identity theft, part 1: On familiar fraud

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Awareness, child identity fraud, child identity theft, cyberbullying, familiar fraud, fraud, id theft, identity theft, personally identifiable information, PII

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:17:19 +0000

In this two-part series on child identity theft, we shed light on the growing problem of familiar fraud, where those entrusted with a minor’s information are the very ones who abuse it.

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Awareness

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Lock and Code S1Ep1: On RSA, the human element, and the week in security

March 2, 2020 0 Comments lock and code, malware, Podcast, scams, Security, threats, week in security

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:15:47 +0000

We look at all the interesting security news from last week and also present the latest episode of our podcast, Lock and Code.

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Podcast

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Domen toolkit gets back to work with new malvertising campaign

February 28, 2020 0 Comments buren ransomware, Domen, domen toolkit, intelrapid cryptominer, JavaScript, malicious websites, malvertising, malvertising campaigns, smoke loader, Social engineering, Threat analysis, toolkit, vidar, vidar stealer

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:54:18 +0000

We describe the latest malvertising campaign that uses Domen, an advanced social engineering toolkit.

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Threat analysis

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Mac adware is more sophisticated and dangerous than traditional Mac malware

February 27, 2020 0 Comments adware, bundlore, crossrider, mac, mac adware, mac threats, MacOS, Macs, potentially unwanted programs, PUPs, surfbuyer

Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:34:48 +0000

Adware and PUPs can actually be far more invasive and dangerous on the Mac than “real” malware. We demonstrate with analysis of Crossrider, a sophisticated Mac adware that uses evasion and persistence techniques more complex than nation-state malware.

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Stalkerware and online stalking are accepted by Americans. Why?

February 27, 2020 0 Comments bjs, bureau of justice statistics, cdc, center for disease control and prevention, coalition against stalkerware, cyber stalk, cyber stalking, monitoring app, monitoring applications, monitoring apps, nortonlifelock, online creeping survey, say anything, seven brides for seven brothers, stalk, Stalkerware, stalking, the graduate, the harris poll

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Americans may be accepting and minimizing online stalking behaviors, including the use of invasive apps that can pry into a user’s text messages, emails, photos, videos, and phone logs.

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Stalkerware

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