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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. These two software are currently unknown to most if not all antivirus companies.” The Exe Clean service made malware look like goodware to antivirus products.

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Updated MATA attacks industrial companies in Eastern Europe

SecureList

Using a vulnerability in a legitimate driver and a rootkit, they interfered with the antivirus, intercepted user credentials (many of which were cached on the terminal server, including accounts with administrator privileges on many systems), and began actively moving around the network.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

This development is unfolding largely off the radar screen of the website publishers who depend on this ecosystem, says Chris Olson, CEO of the Media Trust , a 15-year-old website security vendor, based in McLean, VA that is on the front lines of mitigating this seething threat. LW: That’s a huge bucket of technology.

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

Malwarebytes

Since 2004, there's been an annual event designed to "Promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world." Today is the 20th Safer Internet Day. Help required. You had very rich and powerful adware companies, making liberal use of bundled installers.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me. This bold about-face dumbfounded many longtime Norton users because antivirus firms had spent years broadly classifying all cryptomining programs as malware.

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Introducing the Digital Footprint Portal

Malwarebytes

I’m proud of our success, but it wasn’t just our technology that got us here. From our safe portal, everyday people can view past password breaches, active social media profiles, potential leaks of government ID info, and more. Creating a social media account requires handing over your full name and birthdate.

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Stalkerware activity drops as glaring spying problem is revealed

Malwarebytes

The report, titled “ Everyone’s afraid of the internet and no one’s sure what to do about it ,” reveals the dismal rates of adoption for antivirus software, two-factor authentication (2FA), password managers, and unique passwords across online accounts. These numbers are less open to interpretation.