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 Adobe Patches A Number of Critical Vulnerabilities In Latest Update October 28, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you make frequent use of Adobe products, then you’ll definitely want to give priority to applying the latest security update offered by the company. It’s an out of band patch that impacts ten different products in the Adobe lineup and is aimed squarely at addressing a number of critical security flaws. Since this is […] Read more » Adobe General Interest 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 Hacked Networks And Credentials Being Sold At Alarming Rates October 22, 2020 by Vertical Axion Selling network access is big business on underground hacking websites. Even worse, the business is growing at an alarming rate, according to a report recently published by cyber security firm KELA. According to their report, the number of ads found on hacking forums advertising ‘Network Access’ tripled between August and September, 2020. The value of […] Read more » General Interest Recent News Security Technology News
Blog Surge In Ransomware Continues In 2020, Targeting Healthcare October 20, 2020 by Vertical Axion The year 2020 could well be described as the Year of Ransomware. Security researchers around the globe who monitor such things have noted a sharp uptick in the use of ransomware this year, with well known threats like REvil, Ryuk, and Maze being the most common variants deployed by hackers. That’s bad enough by itself, […] Read more » General Interest Ransomware Security Technology News
Blog New Updates For Office 365 Will Include Phishing Protection October 19, 2020 by Vertical Axion Are you an Office 365 user? If so, be aware that Microsoft is adding some powerful new protections to the software suite, designed to make you safer. Hackers commonly target Office 365 users with a type of attack known as “Consent Phishing.” That basically means that the hacker in question will use a variety of […] Read more » Microsoft Office 365 Phishing 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 Windows Display Drivers Soon For Security Fix October 13, 2020 by Vertical Axion If you’ve got an NVIDIA graphics card in your PC, and odds are pretty good that you do, be aware that the company recently released a security update. It patches a number of high severity vulnerabilities in the Windows GPU display driver that could allow a hacker to gain complete control over your system via […] Read more » Microsoft Recent News Security Technology News Windows
