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Infosecurity Europe 2017 is underway at Olympia London in London. Here are a few photos from the expo floor. Featured companies: Qualys, Malwarebytes, Cyberbit, Fortinet, ForeScout. Continue reading Photo gallery: Infosecurity Europe 2017 Expo, part 3
A new piece of Mac malware, more insidious and dangerous that all those encountered before, has been flung at European users via fake (but relatively convincing) emails. In examples uncovered by Check Point, the emails were made to look like they were sent from a tax agency, and ostensibly warn the recipients about inconsistencies in their tax returns. The malware: OSX.Dok The attached file (Dokument.zip) they are instructed to open is made to look like … More → Continue reading Dok Mac malware intercepts victims’ web traffic, installs backdoor
A lot of companies don’t make it all too clear who their tech support is. Given the wide variety in how legitimate companies handle their support, how can you tell the difference between tech support and a tech support scam? We point out how to differ… Continue reading Do I have Malwarebytes or a tech support scam?
To be sure that your online browsing is protected and your data is secure, you have to be able to trust the VPN service of your choice. But, as a research into Android VPN clients has recently shown, there are not a lot of them that deserve that trust. Unfortunately, if we know one thing for sure, it is that average users are very rarely bothered to read carefully the fine print that goes with … More → Continue reading Your iPhone is not infected, and you don’t need a free VPN app to clean it
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Researchers have found and analyzed a Mac backdoor that is unusual in many ways. The malware – detected as OSX.Backdoor.Quimitchin by Malwarebytes but dubbed Fruitfly by Apple – is believed to have been around for some years, but was never before flagged as a specific malware family. The analysis has shown that Fruitfly can take screenshots and can access and use the computer’s webcam. If commanded to do so, it can discover the screen size … More → Continue reading Fruitfly: Unusual Mac backdoor used for tightly targeted attacks?
PC Pitstop makes several products including PC Matic, PC Magnum, Optimize, Driver Alert, and Disk MD. As of a few weeks ago, we detect these products as PUP.Optional, here is why.Categories: PUP/PUMTags: Disk MDDriver AlertMalwarebytesOptimizePC Magnum… Continue reading Why Malwarebytes detects PC Pitstop as Potentially Unwanted
Thales releases advanced encryption solutions for secure docker containers Thales released new capabilities for its Vormetric Data Security Platform. These advances extend data-at-rest security capabilities with integrated Docker encryption and access controls, the ability to encrypt and rekey data without having to take applications offline, FIPS certified remote administration and management of data security policies and protections, and the ability to accelerate the deployment of tokenization, static data masking and application encryption. Unisys Stealth(aware) automates … More → Continue reading New infosec products of the week: December 9, 2016
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The recently spotted Telecrypt ransomware can be thwarted: malware analyst Nathan Scott has created a tool that decrypts the encrypted files. Telecrypt Decryptor works only if the affected user has .NET 4.0 and above (every Windows version since Windows XP has it by default), and if he or she has at least one of the encrypted files in unencrypted form. It also needs to be run from an Administrator account. The tool comes with instructions … More → Continue reading Telecrypt Decryptor foils ransomware’s simple encryption method