Snake cyber-espionage malware is ready to bite Mac users
Snake is a fairly complex malware framework used for targeted attacks, or Cyber-espionage, and it’s been found on the Mac running on MacOS X. Snake has been linked with a Russian cybere-spionage group.
Locky Ransomware is back, wrapped inside a Word Document, inside a PDF File
Security researchers have discovered a new spam campaign which started last Friday, where ransomware is downloaded and run by a macro hidden inside a Word document that is in turn nested within a PDF, like a Russian nesting dolls – or matryoshka dolls. The...
Microsoft’s security updates for April 2017 address more than 40 vulnerabilities
Microsoft’s security updates for April 2017 address more than 40 critical, important and moderate severity vulnerabilities, including three zero-day flaws that have been exploited in attacks.
Are you still using IIS 6.0? Stop right now – a zero-day exists that won’t be patched
What’s worse than an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability for which there is no patch? Not much – but we have that situation now, where IIS6 from Microsoft is actively being exploited, and because it is ‘end-of-life’ – there will never be a patch for this expoit!
Worse still – this is an exploit that seems to have been exploited since July or August 2016.
16 years of Mac OS-X: Secure but not invincible to malware
The various Mac OS-X malware cases we’ve seen over the last few years prove that no matter which operating system a user chooses, the concept of 100% security simply doesn’t exist – and that also Mac is of growing interest to malware writers.