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A week in security (September 17 – 23)
Last week, we took a look at a low level spam campaign on Twitter, explored the signs of falling victim to phishing, and examined a massive WordPress compromise. We also explained some SASL vulnerabilities and covered a breaking Emotet spam campaign. Other cybersecurity news: NewEgg attacked by...
World Backup Day is as good as any to back up your data
In today’s security landscape, there are more threats to data than ever before. Beyond corruption caused by hardware or human failure, malware and cyberattacks can put data in serious danger. That’s why it’s imperative for enterprises, small-and-medium businesses, and individuals to back up data...
StoneDrill Disk Wiping Malware Found Targeting European Industries
A new disk wiping malware has been uncovered targeting a petroleum company in Europe, which is quite similar to the mysterious disk wiper malware Shamoon that wiped data from 35,000 computers at Saudi Arabia's national oil company in 2012. Disk wiping malware has the ability to cripple any...
Destructive StoneDrill Wiper Malware On The Loose
There have been a handful of wiper malware attacks in the wild in the last decade with Shamoon’s destruction of more than 35,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco in 2012 and the Dark Seoul attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment the most high profile. However, since last fall, Shamoon has resurfaced...
KillDisk Ransomware Targets Linux; Demands $250,000 Ransom, But Won't Decrypt Files
What you'll do if Ransomware infects you? Should you pay or not to recover your files? Believe me, the FBI advises - Pay off the criminals to get your files back if you don't have a backup. But paying off a ransom to cyber criminals is definitely not a wise option because there is no guarantee...
Windows 10: protection, detection, and response against recent Depriz malware attacks
A few weeks ago, multiple organizations in the Middle East fell victim to targeted and destructive attacks that wiped data from computers, and in many cases rendering them unstable and unbootable. Destructive attacks like these have been observed repeatedly over the years and the Windows Defender...
Rombertik Malware Destroys Hard Drives to Avoid Detection
Security researchers have discovered a new strain of malware that makes use of extraordinary measures to evade detection and analysis, making the computer it infects unusable. Dubbed Rombertik, which is "unique" among other self-destructing malware samples due to its unique evasion techniques. As...
Iran Retracts Reports of New Stuxnet-Like Attacks Against Utilities
Iranian officials are retracting Christmas day reports that malware resembling Stuxnet had been used to attack manufacturing facilities including a power utility in southern Iran. Ali Akbar Akhavan, head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, was quoted in reports yesterday by the Iranian...
Batchwiper malware, new virus targets Iranian computers
Iranian CERT is sounding the alarm over another bit of data-deleting malware it's discovered on PCs in the country. Dubbed Batchwiper, the malware systematically wipes any drive partitions starting with the letters D through I Drive, along with any files stored on the Windows desktop of the user...
Batchwiper malware, new virus targets Iranian computers
Iranian CERT is sounding the alarm over another bit of data-deleting malware it's discovered on PCs in the country. Dubbed Batchwiper, the malware systematically wipes any drive partitions starting with the letters D through I Drive, along with any files stored on the Windows desktop of the user...
Iran CERT Reports New Data-Wiping Malware
Computer systems in Iran are being targeted by a new strain of malware that is capable of wiping disk partitions clean of files. Security researchers are calling the attacks simplistic, yet effective. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab said the malware launches only on pre-determined dates and will...
Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu
Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...
Shamoon Malware : Permanently wiping data from Energy Industry Computers
Malware researchers have uncovered an attack targeting an organization in the energy industry that attempts to wreak havoc by permanently wiping data from an infected computer's hard drive and rendering the machine unusable. Symantec would not name the victimized firm, and so far has seen the...
Find My iPhone App, 4.0
Despite all the hype about a coming wave of mobile device viruses and worms, lost and stolen mobile phones are the biggest security threat to consumers and employers, too. To address the “scatterbrain” threat, Apple introduced ‘Find My iPhone’ application for the iPhone 4 in June, 2010. Part of...
[SA17827] PGP Desktop Wipe Free Space Security Issue
TITLE: PGP Desktop Wipe Free Space Security Issue SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA17827 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/17827/ CRITICAL: Less critical IMPACT: Exposure of sensitive information WHERE: Local system SOFTWARE: PGP Corporate Desktop 8.x http://secunia.com/product/2514/ PGP...