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City of Atlanta victim of ransomware attack

The city of Atlanta was hit in a massive ransomware attack. Many systems and services were still down nearly four days after the attack first hit last Thursday. The ransomware attack has impacted several of its departments and took down government websites that process payments and relay court information, according to Threatpost.  The city’s public services department […]

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Oracle vulnerability exploited to deliver dual Monero miners

Trend Micro security researchers have spotted an Oracle vulnerability that is being abused to deliver dual Monero miner malware. The Oracle WebLogic WLS-WSAT vulnerability (CVE-2017-10271) allows remote code execution and was patched by Oracle back in October.

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Attack abuses Windows Installer service to deliver LokiBot

Trend Micro researchers discovered attackers are exploiting a previously patched Windows vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) by abusing the Windows Installer service, msiexec.exe, to deliver LokiBot malware.

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