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None | September 29, 2014

Security experts are urging firms to patch the Shellshock bug as soon as possible, after spotting a “significant amount” of malicious traffic exploiting the Bash vulnerability made public last week....

SecurityWeek | March 29, 2017

The Cerber ransomware is using new evasion techniques designed elude machine learning security solutions, and has been observed being dropped onto compromised systems alongside the Kovter click-fraud Trojan. Discovered in March last year, Cerber has grown to become one of the most prevalent ransomware families out there. Not only did the malware receive various enhancements over the past year, but it also used numerous distribution channels, including spam emails and exploit kits, as well as oth...

Security Week | June 08, 2017

The cyber-espionage group tracked by Microsoft as “Platinum” has started abusing a component of Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) in attacks aimed at organizations in Southeast Asia. The activities of the Platinum group, which has been active since at least 2009, were exposed just over one year ago by Microsoft. At the time, it had been leveraging a Windows feature called hotpatching in attacks targeting government organizations, intelligence agencies, defense institut...

None | July 08, 2015

"Researchers have discovered new information-stealing Android malware which remains undetected by all AV products on VirusTotal by pretending to be adware. Palo Alto Networks found that three slightly different variants of the so-called ‘Gunpoder’ malware were targeting users in 13 countries including France, Italy, the US, Russia, India and Indonesia."...