
Emergent threats, trends, and news annotated by some of the most well known and respected experts in the industry.
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Fileless Malware on the Rise, Becoming Top Endpoint Threat Fileless malware that runs in memory is seeing a 20% increase in 2017 compared to 2016. Since these attacks leave no information on the hard drive or SSD they are hard to detect. The article covers the issues with protecting systems against fileless malware attacks. US-CERT Warns of ASLR Implementation Flaw In Windows |
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Ordinypt ‘Ransomware’ Destroys Data Instead of Encrypting It A ‘ransomware’ making the rounds in Germany is acting like ransomware, in reality it the users files are actually destroyed. Even if the user pays to get their files back they are destroyed. The files are actually overwritten with random letters and numbers. It is possible that some of the files could be recovered, total recovery of data is not likely. |
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White House Releases VEP Disclosure Rules The U.S. government is opening up on how it chooses to disclose or not disclose security vulnerabilities. Some in the private sector say this is a good start but would like to see more transparency in Vulnerabilities Policy and Process (VEP). |
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Q3 Sees a Whopping 400M Malware Infections Malware in Q3 has seen a 4x increase from Q2. This not a big surprise for those in Cybersecurity. The increase in attacks is being seen over the whole globe. |