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MacStealer Extracts Docs, Cookies, Login Info from MacOS Users

SecureWorld News

Structured telemetry and analytics cybersecurity firm Uptycs has discovered a new macOS malware stealer it is calling MacStealer. It joins three Windows-based malware families using Telegram in 2023, including Titan Stealer, Parallax RAT, and HookSpoofer, all of which exploit stealer command and control (C2). "

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How Many User Credentials Did Emotet Steal? Now We Know

SecureWorld News

In January 2021, the FBI and other international law enforcement agencies worked together to take down one of the world's most notorious malware strains, Emotet. I personally use Microsoft Defender which is free, built into Windows 10, and updates automatically via Windows Update. How many credentials were harvested by Emotet?

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Bad Actor Using New Method to Avert Detection, Google Discovers

SecureWorld News

Whether it is ransomware, other types of malware, or any number of cyberattacks, threat actors keep inventing new techniques to cause disruption. In a blog post, Neel Mehta, Information Security lead for Google, explains how a hacker has managed to break certificate code parsing to invade email inboxes and infect users with malware.

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How to Pick the Right Technology to Enable the Remote Workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

Locking the front door doesn’t help if the windows and back doors are open. Users authenticate to a cloud access service broker (CASB), which is aware of all SaaS services in use across the organization — both authorized and unauthorized. Secure the windows. Take the native sharing functionality in Google Docs. Bar the exits.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Gaining Persistence On Windows Boxes

ForAllSecure

From her talk at SecTor 2022 , Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO of Cqure , returns to The Hacker Mind and explains how a lot of little configuration errors in common Windows tools and services can open the door to persistence on a system for bad actors and what sysadmins can do to mitigate these. Stealth malware. Special coding tricks?

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Barn Doors - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

Let’s build identification and authentication frameworks on which we can then base access to that data. That works really well until that endpoint is a Dropbox folder that someone placed a critical document in, or a USB Flash drive they copied it to. controlling Windows for two decades. Also, the windows operating system.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

So we include other telemetry that seeks to authenticate that the entity logging in is who they say they are. Without a basic ability to authenticate these characters, there’d be no drama, no romance, no tragedy. So that’s why you need multi factor authentication. Think about it. And important.