A week in security (September 23 – 29)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:43:14 +0000

A roundup of the security news from September 23–29 including Emotet, checkm8, securing webcams, insurance data, Nodersok, voting machines, iHandy, CCleaner, encryption and breaches.

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Bring your own LOLBin: Multi-stage, fileless Nodersok campaign delivers rare Node.js-based malware

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:34:41 +0000

We’ve discussed the challenges that fileless threats pose in security, and how Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP) employs advanced strategies to defeat these sophisticated threats. Part of the slyness of fileless malware is their use of living-off-the-land techniques, which refer to the abuse of legitimate tools, also called living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins), that…

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