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Quasar Remote Access Trojan uses two methods to achieve persistence such as scheduled tasks and registry keys. Its capabilities include capturing screenshots, recording webcam, reversing proxy, editing registry, spying on the user’s actions, keylogging…
Continue ReadingThe broad movement of ‘connected devices’ represents a growing cybersecurity threat that puts patient data, medical information, and potentially patient well-being at risk.
Healthcare can’t wait for device makers to prioritize security.
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Continue ReadingThe 2019 version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant clearly shows that Microsoft is in the game to provide extremely powerfull Endpoint protection platform (EPP). Microsoft is named a leader! With built-in powerful capability which ties to Protect, Detect a…
Continue ReadingReading Time: ~ 2 min. Android Apps Riddled with Adware. Industry Intel Another 85 photo and gaming apps have been removed from the Google Play store after they were discovered to have been distributing adware to the roughly 8 million users who had dow…
Continue ReadingThreat Actor Profile Origin: 2014 Aliases: Helix Kitten, OilRig, Greenbug Key Target Sectors: Information Technology, Government, Military, Energy and Power, Communication, Transportation, Financial Services, Educational System Attack Vectors: Zero Day…
Continue ReadingNot so long ago, stories about cyberwar started with scary hypotheticals: What if state-sponsored hackers were to launch widespread attacks that blacked out entire cities? Crippled banks and froze ATMs across a country? Shut down shipping firms, oil re…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft remains the favorite brand to spoof in phishing campaigns, but more attackers are impersonating Facebook. Cybercriminals often exploit victims’ familiarity with popular brands to manipulate them into falling for phishing campaigns. Microsoft …
Continue Readingpasswd_mode=2` is not necessary. In other words, the triggering of the vulnerability in the 1.890 version does not require any dependencies. Is this a mistake or a malicious back door? Validating. Here we will verify it in a more intuitive way. Downloa…
Continue ReadingIn the middle of May, Microsoft announced that a vulnerability, called BlueKeep, had been discovered in Windows XP, Windows 7 and other older Windows systems. At the time, Microsoft launched a patch to protect its users against this remote code executi…
Continue ReadingProtect Against BlueKeep and the Next Wormable Vulnerability.
In May, Microsoft released fixes for BlueKeep, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services that affected older versions of Windows. Even though Windows 8 and 1…
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