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New Shlayer Mac malware spreads via poisoned search engine results

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. “The new malware tricks victims into bypassing Appleā€™s built-in macOS security protections, and it uses sneaky tactics in an effort to evade antivirus detection.” “As of Friday, the new malware installer and its payload had a 0/60 detection rate among all antivirus engines on VirusTotal.” up to 10.14.3.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 261

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Scranos ā€“ A Cross Platform, Rootkit-Enabled Spyware rapidly spreading

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Scranos is a powerful cross-platform rootkit-enabled spyware discovered while investigating malware posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The report also includes the IoCs for this last campaign.

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Spearphishing attacks hit the oil and gas industry sector

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Agent Tesla is a.Net-based info-stealing malware that was first spotted in 2014, it is used to spy on the victims by collecting keystrokes, system clipboard, screenshots, and credentials from the infected system. To do this, the spyware creates different threads and timer functions in the main function. ” continues the analysis.

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Former NSA TAO hacker sentenced to 66 months in prison over Kaspersky Leak

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A former member of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky software. On September 11, 2014, Kaspersky antivirus detected the Win32.GrayFish.gen Equestre.*ā€.

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A new sophisticated version of the AZORult Spyware appeared in the wild

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A new sophisticated version of the AZORult Spyware was spotted in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18. Malware researchers at Proofpoint spotted a new version of the AZORult Spyware in the wild, it was involved in a large email campaign on July 18, just 24 hours it appeared in cybercrime forums on the Dark Web.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 224 ā€“ News of the week

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Twitter account of Scotland Yard hacked and posted bizarre messages. BlackBerry Cylance addresses AI-based antivirus engine bypass. A new ProFTPD vulnerability exposes servers to hack. Comodo Antivirus is affected by several vulnerabilities. US authorities have sentenced to prison 3 Romanian men who hacked US servers.