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Accidental VirusTotal upload is a valuable reminder to double check what you share

July 20, 2023 admin Business, data, document, download, file, files, google, intelligence, share, sharing, social media, upload, virustotal

Categories: Business

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We take a look at reports of a document being accidentally shared to the VirusTotal service and potentially exposing names and email addresses in the security and intelligence community.

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Beware: Fake IRS tax email delivers Emotet malware

March 23, 2023 admin document, email, emotet, irs, macro, macros, malware, news, SCAM, w-9, Word

Categories: News

Tags: emotet

Tags: malware

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We look at a current tax scam in circulation which looks to make an Emotet deposit on your PC.

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What’s happening in the world of personal cyber insurance?

April 27, 2022 admin awareness, backup, claim, claims, cyber insurance, document, excess, exempt, Exemption, expenses, insurance, insurer, loss, Policy, ransomware, stalking, theft

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:57:03 +0000

Cyber insurance is back in the news, but this time the focus is on personal insurance. We take a look at what’s on offer.

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Security Sophos

Malicious doc “builders” abandon old exploits wholesale

September 11, 2018 admin CVE-2012-0158, CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802, CVE-2018-4878, document, downloader, dropper, editor, Equation, Excel, maldoc, maldocs, malware, microsoft, MSCOMCTL.OCX, office, PowerPoint, RTF, SophosLabs Uncut, weaponized, Word

Credit to Author: Gabor Szappanos| Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:15:26 +0000

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