Blog Coordinated Effort Underway To Take Down Trickbot Malware October 29, 2020 by Vertical Axion Score one for the good guys. A team led by Microsoft’s DCU (Digital Crimes Unit) that includes Symantec, NTT Ltd, ESET, and Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs is working on something new. They have launched a sustained, coordinated attack on Trickbot’s infrastructure in a bid to destroy it, preventing the hackers who control it from making […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New Windows 10 Update Shows App Warnings For Malware October 27, 2020 by Vertical Axion A great many malware strains are designed to engage quietly during a PC’s startup process and then idle in the background. They are in the system logging keystrokes, taking screen shots at periodic intervals and uploading them to a command and control server, or doing other nefarious things. Microsoft wants to limit malware’s ability to […] Read more » Malware and Virus Protection Microsoft New Technology Recent News Security Technology News Windows
Blog Intel Adding Additional Security To Future Processors October 23, 2020 by Vertical Axion Intel has had more than its share of challenges over the last couple of years. Not the least of which included a whole family of new attack vectors that made headlines and caused panic around the world. This happened as hackers discovered new ways to attack machines with ‘Intel Inside,’ which globally, is a lot […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection New Technology Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Kraken Malware Uses Microsoft Windows Error Reporting To Exploit System October 15, 2020 by Vertical Axion Hackers are relentless when it comes to testing the boundaries of software for potential weaknesses to exploit. It seems that an unknown group of hackers has found a new one. Based on what researchers at Malwarebytes are seeing, a group of hackers has developed a new fileless attack technique designed to abuse Microsoft’s WER (Windows […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New HEH Botnet Malware Can Destroy Devices It Attacks October 14, 2020 by Vertical Axion Security researchers at Netlab have recently reported on their discovery of a terrifying new botnet on the web. Dubbed HEH, this botnet is a different sort of threat. Unlike most others, this one is not designed to launch DDOS attacks or install malicious code. Its purpose is much simpler, and it only does two things. […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Update Adobe Media Encoder Immediately With Current Patch September 22, 2020 by Vertical Axion Adobe took the unusual step of releasing an out of band patch to address a trio of serious security issues in Adobe Media Encoder. The program is used by tens of thousands of people around the world to encode audio and video in a variety of formats. The three issues addressed by this patch are […] Read more » Adobe Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog New Malware Maker Got Past Apple Security September 9, 2020 by Vertical Axion Apple has been historically very good at keeping malware out of their app store, and they’re constantly improving their security protocols on that front. In fact, since February of this year (2020), all Mac software distributed outside of its Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple. The developers must demonstrate that their products are […] Read more » Apple Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Microsoft Takes Another Step Against Malware September 2, 2020 by Vertical Axion Ever since Microsoft released Windows Vista, the Redmond giant has made it possible for users to disable Microsoft Defender by way of the Registry. Unfortunately, by granting that ability, it gave well-designed malware strains the ability to do the same. That is now changing. As the company explains in a recent blog post: “DisableAntiSpyware is […] Read more » Malware and Virus Protection Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News Windows
Blog Trickbot Adds New Trick Linux Malware August 17, 2020 by Vertical Axion Trickbot is about as bad as they come in the world of malware. Originally a malware strain from the Windows ecosystem, security professionals have recently found samples of the code in the wild that prove that Trickbot has made the jump to the Linux world as well. One of the things that makes this such […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Cisco Data Center Manager Software Users Should Patch Immediately August 11, 2020 by Vertical Axion Do you use Cisco’s Data Center Manager Software? If so, be advised that the company recently issued an advisory concerning a serious security flaw. The advisory reads, in part, as follows: “The vulnerability exists because different installations share a static encryption key. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using the static key to craft […] Read more » General Interest Malware and Virus Protection Recent News Security Technology News Uncategorized
