An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: A Russian cyber-espionage hacker group has been spotted using a novel technique that involves patching locally installed browsers like Chrome and Firefox in order to modify the browsers’ internal components. The end goal of these modifications is to alter the way the two browsers set up HTTPS connections, and add a per-victim fingerprint for the TLS-encrypted…
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Trojan Dropper Malware Found In CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Downloads
Kaspersky security researchers have discovered a Trojan Dropper malicious module hidden within the Android app CamScanner that’s been downloaded over 100 million times on the Google Play Store. After they reported their findings, Google removed the app, but added, “it looks like the app developers got rid of the malicious code with the latest update of CamScanner.” They conclude: “Keep in…
Windows Defender Achieves ‘Best Antivirus’ Status
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PC Magazine: As Softpedia reports, the independent IT security institute AV-TEST spent May and June continuously evaluating 20 home user security products using their default settings to see which offered the best protection. Only four of those products achieved a top score, and one of them was Windows Defender. The other three are F-Secure…
Microsoft Puts Slack On Internal List of ‘Prohibited and Discouraged’ Software
PolygamousRanchKid shares a report: GeekWire obtained an internal Microsoft list of prohibited and discouraged technology — software and online services that the company doesn’t want its employees using as part of their day-to-day work. We first picked up on rumblings of the prohibition from Microsoft employees who were surprised that they couldn’t use Slack at work, before tracking down the list…
Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malware
In 2012 when researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Lab publicly exposed the massive and sophisticated suite of nation-state spy tools called Flame, the attackers behind it, seemingly in a panic, swiftly shut down their operation once they realized they’d been caught. They sent a kill module to disable and erase the malware on infected… Continue reading Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malware
Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malwaref
In 2012 when researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Lab publicly exposed the massive and sophisticated suite of nation-state spy tools called Flame, the attackers behind it, seemingly in a panic, swiftly shut down their operation once they realized they’d been caught. They sent a kill module to disable and erase the malware on infected… Continue reading Researchers Uncover New Version of the Infamous Flame Malwaref