If only you had to worry about malware, with Jason Haddix: Lock and Code S05E04
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Jason Haddix about how businesses can protect against modern cyberthreats.
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A week in security (April 17 – 23)
Categories: News Tags: fake Chrome update Tags: AirBnb scam Tags: fake IRS tax email Tags: Ransomware in Germany report Tags: Living Off The Land Tags: LOTL attack Tags: ALPHV ransomware Tags: ransomware Tags: spring cleaning your browser Tags: lost injured dog Facebook hoax Tags: Facebook hoax Tags: swatting-as-aservice Tags: LockBit ransomware Tags: Instagram scam Tags: Domino Backdoor Tags: Malwarebytes Admin Tags: Fancy Bear Tags: tech support scam Tags: QBot Tags: Chrome zero-day Tags: Facebook Tags: Cambridge Analytica settlement claim The most interesting security related news from the week of April 17 – 23. |
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Read moreMulti-stage downloader Trojan sLoad abuses BITS almost exclusively for malicious activities
Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:30:26 +0000
Many of today’s threats evolve to incorporate as many living-off-the-land techniques as possible into the attack chain. The PowerShell-based downloader Trojan known as sLoad, however, puts all its bets on BITS. Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a component of the Windows operating system that provides an ability to transfer files in an asynchronous and…
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Read moreSophosLabs surveys the threat landscape for 2020 trends
Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 13:50:31 +0000
SophosLabs this morning published its annual assessment on the state of internet and information security, and our outlook on what security threats are likely to affect the world in the coming year: the SophosLabs 2020 Threat Report, available for download now. This year, our report broadens the scope of our analysis to cover topics beyond […]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/tFcwsfiM20g” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreDismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposes Astaroth attack
Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000
Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP’s Antivirus exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory
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Read moreDismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP next-gen protection exposes Astaroth attack
Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000
Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP next-generation protection exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory
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Read moreDetecting credential theft through memory access modelling with Microsoft Defender ATP
Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 17:29:45 +0000
Microsoft Defender ATP instruments memory-related function calls such as VirtualAlloc and VirtualProtect to catch in-memory attack techniques like reflective DLL loading. The same signals can also be used to generically detect malicious credential dumping activities performed by a wide range of different individual tools.
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