Are there any Advantages of Buying Cyber Security Insurance?, (Sun, Aug 25th)

I recently was reading an article about Cyber Insurance and got intrigue on the type of coverage offered. Recovering from a Cyber attack can be very expensive and cyber security insurance offers the ability to transfer some of the risks to an insurance company. Some estimates that 1 in 3 company currently have cyber insurance. Then I found this presentation [2] that identified 10 misconceptions about Cyber insurance and provided an answer about each of them. I found very interesting the #1 Objection “We outsource our IT Services” and one of the 3 answers is even if the data is outsourced, “Legal responsibility CANNOT be transferred by contract”, it is the data the company has been entrusted to protect.

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Simple Mimikatz & RDPWrapper Dropper, (Thu, Aug 22nd)

Let&#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;&#;x26;#;x99;s review a malware sample that I spotted a few days ago. I found it interesting because it&#;x26;#;39;s not using deep techniques to infect its victims. The initial sample is a malicious VBScript. For a few weeks, I started to hunt for more Powershell based on encoded directives. The following regular expression matched on the file:

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Guildma malware is now accessing Facebook and YouTube to keep up-to-date, (Tue, Aug 20th)

A new variant of the information stealer Guildma (aka Astaroth) we analyzed last week is accessing Facebook and YouTube to get a fresh list of its C2 servers. The C2 list is encrypted and hosted in two Facebook and three YouTube profiles maintained and constantly updated by the cybercriminals.

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