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NCSC warns of a surge in ransomware attacks on education institutions

Security Affairs

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Recently Check Point researchers warned of a surge in the DDoS attacks against education institutions and the academic industry across the world. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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BEST PRACTICES: Mock phishing attacks prep employees to avoid being socially engineered

The Last Watchdog

Despite billions of dollars spent on the latest, greatest antivirus suites, firewalls and intrusion detection systems, enterprises continue to suffer breaches that can be traced back to the actions of a single, unsuspecting employee. Social engineering, especially phishing, continues to trigger the vast majority of breach attempts.

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Getting Started With the Metasploit Framework: A Pentesting Tutorial

eSecurity Planet

This way, you can train with various operating systems and disable antivirus software and firewalls safely. Msfvenom is the combination of payload generation and encoding that replaced msfpayload and msfencode in 2015. It is better to use several virtual machines; for example, one for the attacker and one for the victim.

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A new Zero-Day in Steam client impacts over 96 million Windows users

Security Affairs

“For example, disabling firewall and antivirus, rootkit installation, concealing of process-miner, theft any PC user’s private data — is just a small portion of what could be done. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” wrote Kravetz. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Microsoft’s case study: Emotet took down an entire network in just 8 days

Security Affairs

The virus avoided detection by antivirus solutions through regular updates from an attacker-controlled command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, and spread through the company’s systems, causing network outages and shutting down essential services for nearly a week.” Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – Emotet, malware).

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CISA’s advisory warns of notable increase in LokiBot malware

Security Affairs

The Lokibot malware has been active since 2015, it is an infostealer that was involved in many malspam campaigns aimed at harvest credentials from web browsers, email clients, admin tools and that was also used to target cryptocoin-wallet owners. Below the list of mitigations: Maintain up-to-date antivirus signatures and engines.

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Wireshark fixed three flaws that can crash it via malicious packet trace files

Security Affairs

Administrators are advised to run both firewall and antivirus applications to minimize the potential of inbound and outbound threats. Administrators can help protect affected systems from external attacks by using a solid firewall strategy. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.