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Microsoft Detects New TA505 Malware Attacks After Short Break

Microsoft says that an ongoing TA505 phishing campaign is using attachments featuring HTML redirectors for delivering malicious Excel documents, this being the first time the threat actors have been seen adopting this technique. […]

30 Jan

NEC Defense Contracts Info Potentially Compromised in Breach

The Japanese NEC electronics giant was the target of a cyberattack that resulted in unauthorized access to its internal network on Thursday according to information leaked to Japanese newspapers by sources close to the matter. […]

30 Jan

TrickBot Uses a New Windows 10 UAC Bypass to Launch Quietly

The TrickBot Trojan has switched to a new Windows 10 UAC bypass to execute itself with elevated privileges without showing a User Account Control prompt. […]

30 Jan

Microsoft Launches Xbox Bounty Program With $20K Maximum Payout

Microsoft just announced the launch of an Xbox bug bounty program to allow gamers and security researchers to report security vulnerabilities found in the Xbox Live network and services. […]

30 Jan

The Adware Families That Changed the Antivirus Industry

This story takes us back to 2003 and for a better understanding, you would need to be aware of the fact that the cybersecurity industry back then was shaped very differently from today. […]

30 Jan

Malware Tries to Trump Security Software With POTUS Impeachment

The TrickBot malware has been spotted using text from articles about President Trump’s impeachment to bypass the scanning engines of security software. […]

29 Jan

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty

Bryan Connor Herrell, a 25-year-old from Fresno, California, pleaded guilty this week in the US to racketeering charges related to the now-defunct dark web marketplace Alphabay. […]

29 Jan

Emotet Uses Coronavirus Scare to Infect Japanese Targets

A malspam campaign is actively distributing Emotet payloads via emails that warn the targets of Coronavirus infection reports in various prefectures from Japan, including Gifu, Osaka, and Tottori. […]

29 Jan

New ‘I Got Phished’ Service Alerts Companies of Phished Employees

A new service called ‘I Got Phished’ has launched that will alert domain and security administrators when an employee in their organization falls for a phishing attack. […]

29 Jan

Google Chrome Tests Replacing URLs With Search Queries in Address Bar

Google has started testing a feature that will display the search query in the Chrome address bar rather than the actual page’s URL when performing searches on Google. […]

Author: We Fix PC

Microsoft Detects New TA505 Malware Attacks After Short Break

NEC Defense Contracts Info Potentially Compromised in Breach

TrickBot Uses a New Windows 10 UAC Bypass to Launch Quietly

Microsoft Launches Xbox Bounty Program With $20K Maximum Payout

The Adware Families That Changed the Antivirus Industry

Malware Tries to Trump Security Software With POTUS Impeachment

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty

Emotet Uses Coronavirus Scare to Infect Japanese Targets

New ‘I Got Phished’ Service Alerts Companies of Phished Employees

Google Chrome Tests Replacing URLs With Search Queries in Address Bar