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Marap Malware Appears, Targeting Financial Sector A new form of modular downloader packs the ability to download other modules and payloads.

Australian Teen Hacked Apple Network The 16-year-old made off with 90 gigs of sensitive data.

The 5 Challenges of Detecting Fileless Malware Attacks Simply applying file-based tools and expectations to fileless attacks is a losing strategy. Security teams must also understand the underlying distinctions between the two.

The Rise of Bespoke Ransomware Drawing from a recent study by SophosLabs, Principal Research Scientist Chester Wisniewski highlights a shift to the rise of more targeted and sophisticated ransomware threats, such as SamSam.

Necurs Botnet Goes Phishing for Banks A new Necurs botnet campaign targets thousands of banks with a malicious file dropping the FlawedAmmyy remote-access Trojan.

Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like these are prompting some experts to say the surest way to safeguard one's online accounts may be to disconnect them from the mobile providers entirely.

Overcoming 'Security as a Silo' with Orchestration and Automation When teams work in silos, the result is friction and miscommunication. Automation changes that.

Ex-NSA hacker proves how easily macOS user warnings can be bypassed by malware

By Uzair Amir

Apple is generally considered reliable in making safe and secure software. It is widely believed that the company works really hard to make the defense mechanism of its OS and devices strong enough to evade malware infections and another malicious coding. However, days of blindly trusting any firm including Apple are long gone..or so it […]

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Intel Reveals New Spectre-Like Vulnerability A new side-channel speculative execution vulnerability takes aim at a different part of the CPU architecture than similar vulnerabilities that came before it.

New Intel chip flaw “Foreshadow” attacks SGX technology to extract sensitive data

By Waqas

Security fraternity is still dealing with the adverse consequences and versatile range of threats caused by the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. But, to add to their misery, there is another possibly worst hardware flaw detected by security researchers in Intel chips. This flaw, dubbed as Foreshadow, can obtain information even from the most secured components […]

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