In our personal lives, we consume a huge number of services on demand, from music and television to travel and food. As consumers, we expect to be able to access services monthly, paying only for what we need and leaving the complicated details, such as owning physical assets, upgrading software and making improvements, to the experts. It makes sense that business leaders are beginning to...
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Stealthy crypto-mining is on track to surpass ransomware as cybercriminals’ most favorite money-making option, and companies with computers and servers that run all day and night long are the preferred targets. This could be more than just a nuisance to the companies – it could seriously affect business operations and render some companies unable to operate for days and even weeks. In some instances, namely when the...
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Shurl0ckr, a form of Gojdue ransomware, was not detected on SharePoint or Google Drive. Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365, both of which have built-in malware protection, failed to identify a new form of Gojdue ransomware dubbed Shurl0ckr. The zero-day ransomware evaded most major antivirus platforms: only seven percent of 67 tested tools detected it. Researchers on the Bitglass Threat Research Team discovered Shurl0ckr during...
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The operators of some tech support scam websites have found a new trick to block visitors on their shady sites and scare non-technical users into paying for unneeded software or servicing fees. The trick relies on using JavaScript code loaded on these malicious pages to initiate thousands of file download operations that quickly take up the user’s memory resources, freezing Chrome on the scammer’s site....
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A security researcher has found a way to bypass the “Controlled Folder Access” feature added in Windows 10 in October 2017, which Microsoft has touted as a reliable anti-ransomware defensive measure. This feature, described in more depth in this Bleeping Computer review, is part of the Windows Defender antivirus built into all versions of Windows 10. Users who updated to the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update...
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