During a keynote address on Nov. 8 at the 2017 CyberSat Summit, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official admitted that he and his team of experts remotely hacked into a Boeing 757. This hack was not conducted in a laboratory, but on a 757 parked at the airport in Atlantic City, N.J. And the actual hack occurred over a year ago. We are only now...
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Some of the key takeaways from October’s Latest Intelligence, and the threat landscape in general, include research on the most likely infection vectors, malicious security tools, and a scam targeting tax professionals. Malware The email malware rate declined last month for the first time since March. However, at one in 355 emails, the rate is higher now than it was the last time it declined, due...
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Root certificates are the cornerstone of authentication and security in software and on the Internet. They’re issued by a certified authority (CA) and, essentially, verify that the software/website owner is who they say they are. We have talked about certificates in general before, but a recent event triggered our desire for further explanation about the ties between malware and certificates. In a recent article by RSA FirstWatch, we learned...
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Terdot, a banking Trojan that has been around since mid-2016, has been re-engineered with updated information and credential thievery as well as social media account monitoring functionality. Built on the Zeus framework, whose code was leaked in 2011, Terdot adds a number of novel techniques to the market, such as leveraging open-source tools for spoofing SSL certificates, antivirus firm BitDefender has reported. The malicious code also...
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New Android Malware called “Grabos” Found in 144 Google Play apps and its considering as one of the mass distribution play store Malware by huge number playstore apps. There is no surprise now to see a malicious app in Google play store, hackers continued to deceive the Google safety checks and also they earn high ratings. They named it as Grabos and the activity first...
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