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Cybercriminals shift focus from consumers to businesses

Compared to Q1 2018, malware detections in businesses has increased 235% while dropping 24% for consumers. Anti-virus and security firm Malwarebytes reports in their latest Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report that cybercriminals are following the money and shifting their focus from consumers to businesses that have more valuable assets and possibly the financial resources to […]

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Office365 credential stealing tactics

News, Tools / Ian Reynolds

Organisations using Office365 are being targeted with an ingenious credential stealing campaign which uses Azure hosting to add legitimacy. First reported by Edgewave, this approach uses fake Office365 login pages which are hosted on Azure. By using Azure Blob Storage to host the html pages, the URL for the malicious webpage is delivered from the

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MS Office now most targeted malware vector

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

Kaspersky has recently published information on what their security products are observing in their clients systems – and the dramatic rise of MS Office as a malware target. In 2016 MS Office was the target of 16% of attacks, behind Android at 19% and web browsers who were the dominant target with 45% of all

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Atlassian issues critical security advisory for Confluence

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

Many modern software factories adopting Agile development methodologies also take on the tools of Atlassian such as Jira to managed their feature backlog and Confluence for documentation. A critical path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the on-premises version of Confluence Server and Data Centre which will allow a remote user who has permission to

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500 million Windows users at risk from WinRAR

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

A recently disclosed absolute path traversal bug in the WinRAR utility is being actively leveraged in at least 100 unique exploits according to security firm McAfee. WinRAR is a file archiver/unarchiver for the Windows platform, popular in part as it is distributed as trialware which has led to over 500 million users installing it. The

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Novel application package allows Windows malware to target MacOS and Linux

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

In the eternal arms race between malware creators and security vendors, a novel new tactic has emerged. Trend Micro has recently reported that Windows executables (.EXE files) are being created that target non-windows platforms such as MacOS. Because .EXE files are not supported as an executable on MacOS the built in Gatekeeper protection layer in

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Credential Stuffing on the Rise

News / Ian Reynolds

In a recently published report on the state of the Internet security, Akami Research notes that they detected an average of 115 million credential stuffing attacks against their clients each day in 2018. Credential Stuffing is, according to OWASP: “the automated injection of breached username/password pairs in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts.

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Microsoft Office files increasing used as attack vector

News / Ian Reynolds

In 2017 MS Office files accounted for just 5% of malicious email attachments – this jumped to 48% by the end of 2018 A recent report by Symantec reveals that Microsoft Office files are increasing used as the delivery mechanism for malicious payloads over email, especially targeting businesses. In 2017 MS Office files accounted for

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Scottish firm sues employee after CEO Fraud scam

Cyber Essentials, News / Ian Reynolds

Peebles Media Group is suing a former employee who fell victim to a CEO Fraud email which cost her employer almost £200,000. CEO Fraud is a common type of cyber-crime which targets businesses. Because the CEO or Managing Director of a firm is easy to identify – often being listed on the company website or

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Active attack against QNAP NAS devices

News, Vulnerabilities / Ian Reynolds

The popular Network Attached Storage devices from Taiwanese vendor QNAP are the subject of an active malware attack. QNAP has issued a security advisory warning that the attack is underway and offering an updated version of the QNAP Malware Remover to resolve the issue. The active evidence of the malware includes adding hundreds of entries

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Cybercriminals shift focus from consumers to businesses

Office365 credential stealing tactics

MS Office now most targeted malware vector

Atlassian issues critical security advisory for Confluence

500 million Windows users at risk from WinRAR

Novel application package allows Windows malware to target MacOS and Linux

Credential Stuffing on the Rise

Microsoft Office files increasing used as attack vector

Scottish firm sues employee after CEO Fraud scam

Active attack against QNAP NAS devices

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