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Office Application Guard ! Game changing Defender ATP

Virtual Sand boxing Microsoft announced on Monday that Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office is now at the public preview stage. The solution, also called "Application Guard for Office," adds…

PravinKarthik August 26, 2020

Plugins

3Ds Max malware ! APT group targets design industry

A case of espionage attack by a new hacker group that targets companies worldwide with malware hidden inside malicious 3Ds Max plugins. 3Ds Max is a 3D computer graphics application…

PravinKarthik August 26, 2020

Crypto currency

LinkedIn Heist ! Lazarus group linked

The notorious Lazarus Group, which was behind the 2014 cyber attacks on Sony, carried out an attack against a cryptocurrency organisation using a tailored job advert posted to the professional…

PravinKarthik August 25, 2020

cybersecurity Email Security Malware

Grandoreiro Trojan

Operators behind the Grandoreiro banking trojan, which is popular in Latin America, have been using emails posing as the Agencia Tributaria to trick victims into installing the malware. The campaign…

PravinKarthik August 24, 2020

FritzFrog ! Kind of bots without C2C

The botnet uses proprietary software written from scratch to infect servers and corral them into a peer-to-peer network. Peer-to-peer (P2P) botnets distribute their administration among many infected nodes rather than…

PravinKarthik August 23, 2020

Chrome Browser

Chrome to test hiding full url , defense against phishing

Google will subject Chrome users to a large-scale test in the next version of its browser to discover how people respond to just seeing a site's domain name without the…

PravinKarthik August 23, 2020

Utah University ransom payed even with backups 🎭

Fighting off a ransomware attack doesn't end up with having proper backups. Trend now changed a lot University of Utah revealed it paid $457,059 to a ransomware gang, despite successfully…

PravinKarthik August 22, 2020

cybersecurity Exfilteration Malware

Sophisticated APT attacks into limelight

Many Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups receive guidance and support from established nation-states. Unlike most threat actors, APT attackers chase their goals for months or even years with a clear…

PravinKarthik August 22, 2020