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McAfee Inc. today released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: June 2017, which examines the origins and inner workings of the Fareit password stealer, provides a review of the 30-year history of evasion techniques used by malware authors, explains the nature of steganography as an evasion technique, assesses reported attacks across industries, and reveals growth trends in malware, ransomware, mobile malware, and other threats in Q1 2017. “There are hundreds, if not thousands, of anti-security, anti-sandbox,...

In a recent blog post, Facebook has announced their intention to begin using AI to find and remove terrorist content, before it reaches users. This comes after the social media giant has been widely criticized around the World, for appearing to do very little to prevent and remove said content, and not doing enough to tackle online extremism. In the blog post, it is made clear by Facebook, that this technological tool is only one...

News broke last week that E-cigarettes can be used to hack computers! Many E-cigarettes are chargeable via a USB, either by directly plugging the device into the USB port, or through the use of a charging cable- that seems innocent enough, right? Security researchers, however, have now warned that this simple act can actually compromise your computer- with just a few very simple tweaks to the vaporizer. Security researcher, Ross Bevington showcased the concept at...

ThreatConnect has identified a KASPERAGENT malware campaign leveraging decoy Palestinian Authority documents. The samples date from April – May 2017, coinciding with the run up to the May 2017 Palestinian Authority elections. Although we do not know who is behind the campaign, the decoy documents’ content focuses on timely political issues in Gaza and the IP address hosting the campaign’s command and control node hosts several other domains with Gaza registrants. In this blog post...

Attackers behind a recent surge in phishing and payment-interception attacks on industrial companies are also stealing victims’ project and operational plans, as well as diagrams of electrical and information networks, according to a report by Kaspersky Lab’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team. Such information is not required for the attackers’ primary money-making scheme, and it raises a number of worrying questions about the cybercriminals’ future intentions. Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, often linked...

Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, have announced that the ‘Alert Logic Cloud Defender’ has gone live on the UK public sector procurement framework, G-Cloud 9. The ‘Cloud Defender’ is the industry’s first ever fully managed cloud-native security and compliance solution. Its inclusion on the list enables public sector IT teams to efficiently seek and obtain services from pre-approved suppliers of cloud based services; thus, avoiding the traditional, time consuming,...

Research from Robert Walters Career Lifestyle Survey1 has revealed half of IT professionals (49%) do not leave their desk for lunch. 17% left their desk for lunch but stayed in the office and just 34% leave the office during their break. Ahsan Iqbal, Associate Director at Robert Walters, comments: “IT professionals across a range of specialisms have seen pressure on them at work steadily increase.” “With businesses looking to overhaul their online presence, improve cyber...

Palo Alto Networks has announced GlobalProtect™ cloud service, a new offering that provides the Palo Alto Networks next-generation security infrastructure as a cloud-based service for remote offices and mobile users. The new Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect cloud service will enable customers to utilize the preventive capabilities of the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform, including application visibility and control, Threat Prevention, URL Filtering, and WildFire™ threat analysis service, to secure remote networks and mobile users....

CyberArk, the company that protects organisations from cyber attacks that have made their way inside the network perimeter, today announced survey results that reveal what employees would be most likely to do if they were able to anonymously access sensitive company data including salaries, vacation time and sensitive human resources information. The findings highlight the importance of controlling access to privileged credentials that can provide insiders and external cyber attackers with broad, unfettered access to...

With summer holiday season kicking off, McAfee reveals half (51%) of Brits couldn’t go more than two days without checking social media while they’re on holiday. A third (34%) said they post on social media in real-time while they’re away, with 70% of those who post saying they don’t care if people outside of their friends and family see their holiday snaps. Additionally, one in five (19%) tag their holiday location when they post, openly...