A newly discovered botnet dubbed Xwo has been scanning the internet for exposed web services and default passwords. The malware was discovered by AT&T’s Alien Labs back in March and is related to malware families MongoLock and Xbash.
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Are you still running Windows 7? If you are, here is another reason to upgrade to Windows 10 as soon as possible. Microsoft will officially end support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020.
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Attackers are using a variant of the infamous Mirai IoT botnet dubbed “Miori” to exploit a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in ThinkPHP, a free open-source PHP framework.
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A new exploit kit (EK) dubbed Fallout has been used in a cybersecurity malvertising campaign affecting users in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Southern Europe, and other countries in the Asia Pacific region, according to a new FireEye report.
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A new version of Rakhni Trojan has added a cryptocurrency mining capability to its feature-set. A new cyber campaign discovered by Kaspersky researchers uses a downloader to either install a cryptor or miner on victim computers.
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Cisco’s Talos security team spotted new version and malicious activity of Smoke Loader, a malicious app used to load other malware.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announcedOperation Main Street: Stopping Small Business Scams, a coordinated joint effort with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), law enforcement and state/federal partners, to help stop scams that target small businesses.
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Hackers have targeted Chile’s largest bank, Banco de Chile, in a multi-faceted cyber attack on systems linked to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication’s (SWIFT) inter-bank transfer network.
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This year’s Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) includes over 53,000 security incidents, 2,216 confirmed data breaches across 65 countries worldwide. Verizon published the 11th edition of the DBIR with help from 67 contributors.
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McAfee released its Q4 Labs Threats Report for Q4 2017. The report includes botnet campaign details regarding the Necurs and Gamut botnets, as well as Dridex banking Trojan and ransomware payloads from GlobeImposter, Locky and Scarab.
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