Collaborate Disseminate
USB restricted mode tightens a notch. Plus, the Calisto macOS Trojan.
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By Waqas
In February this year, HackRead published a detailed report on Proton malware
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The backdoor malware OSX/Proton has resurfaced. This time it’s distributed by a fake blog, reporting on a fake malware story, linking to a fake malware scanner which contains the Proton installer. For the full story, have a look here.
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A new variant of the OSX.Proton malware is being promoted via a fake Symantec blog site.
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| The second quarter of 2017 left the security world wondering, “What the hell happened?” With leaks of government-created exploits being deployed against users in the wild, a continued sea of ransomware constantly threatening our ability to work online, and the lines between malware and potentially unwanted programs continuing to blur, every new incident was a wakeup call.In this report, we are going to discuss some of the most important trends, tactics, and attacks of Q2 2017, including an update on ransomware, what is going on with all these exploits, and a special look at all the breaches that happened this quarter.
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The website of the popular HandBrake DVD-ripping app has been hacked, and for 4 days, a maliciously-modified copy of the app was installing a new variant of the mysterious Proton malware.
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Magnetic resonance imaging devices are one of the most fantastically incredible machines humans have ever built. They’re capable of producing three-dimensional images of living tissue by flipping protons around with a magnetic field. Ninety percent of the population doesn’t know what that sentence means, yet you can find an MRI machine inside nearly any reasonably equipped hospital in America.
For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Peter Jansen] is building a magnetic resonance imager, capable of producing the same type of images you’d get from the radiology department at a hospital. It’s going to be a desktop unit, capable of scanning fruit …read more
