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Safer Internet Day, or why Brad Pitt needed an internet bodyguard

Malwarebytes

February 6, 2024 is Safer Internet Day. When I was asked to write about the topic, I misunderstood the question and heard: “can you cover save the internet” and we all agreed that it might be too late for that. The internet has been around for quite some time now, and most of us wouldn’t know what to do without it.

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On the 20th Safer Internet Day, what was security like back in 2004?

Malwarebytes

Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. 2004 was a key year for several safety activities, encompassing both Safer Internet Day and the Safer Internet Forum. Was the general state of the Internet at the time so bad that all of these events sprang up almost out of necessity? You may be asking, why 2004?

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Threat in your browser: what dangers innocent-looking extensions hold for users

SecureList

Overall, more than 100 networks were abused, giving threat actors a foothold on financial service firms, oil and gas companies, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, government and other organizations. Of these, more than 1 million users encountered adware in the first half of 2022. From January 2020 to June 2022, more than 4.3

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A week in security (February 13 - 19)

Malwarebytes

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: What is AI good at (and what the heck is it, actually), with Josh Saxe: Lock and Code S04E04 Malwarebytes recognized as endpoint security leader by G2 CISA issues alert with South Korean government about DPRK's ransomware antics Jailbreaking ChatGPT and other large language models while we can French law to report cyberincidents (..)

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IT threat evolution Q1 2021. Non-mobile statistics

SecureList

Here, too, there was no doing without newcomers: for example, the Internet Explorer script engine was found to contain the CVE-2021-26411 vulnerability, which can lead to remote code execution on behalf of the current user through manipulations that corrupt the heap memory. In the list of malicious programs, Trojan-Downloader.OSX.Shlayer.a

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 232

Security Affairs

United States government files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden. Two selfie Android adware apps with 1.5M+ downloads removed from Play Store. Memory corruption flaw in AMD Radeon driver allows VM escape. More than 737 million medical radiological images found on open PACS servers.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. This ends up executing sketchy code that installs viruses, ransomware, spyware, or adware behind the victim's back.