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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

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The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back.

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New Shlayer Mac malware spreads via poisoned search engine results

Security Affairs

. “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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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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Security Affairs newsletter Round 261

Security Affairs

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Spearphishing attacks hit the oil and gas industry sector

Security Affairs

To do this, the spyware creates different threads and timer functions in the main function. This info-stealer is also able to kill processes associated with malware analysis related processes and antivirus solutions. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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.